Panhandler Nation by James LaFond

Author:James LaFond [LaFond, James]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

Panhandler Nation

About a third of the hundreds of panhandlers that I have interdicted as a store manager have gotten aggressive with me. Of the thousands of panhandlers that have solicited me over the last three decades I can recall being hyper-aggressive towards them for a three year period when I was shedding what was left of the civilized veneer my mother had managed to lacquer on in my childhood. At 150 panhandlers a year for three years we come to a total of 450 that I stepped over, threatened, went after, chased, and snarled at. I actually robbed one mooching maggot and then threw his money in the sewer. I felt really bad about it until another scumbag began screaming at me for money while I was on my way to work in the freezing cold, to work in a freezer, for a cold ruthless bastard who stole money out of my check by editing the payroll program…

…Yes, thank you, I feel better now.

In any case, of the guesstimated 450 lowlifes that I was barbarically rude to; who I stepped over as they clung to life on the frozen sidewalks of South Baltimore, only two of those dudes threatened me back. This has a lot to do with self-justification of aggression. The begging maggot knows he is wrong; sells his soul on a minute-by-minute basis, as he grovels for your misplaced charity. When you lash back, if you have the requisite physicality—and more importantly that rusty hammer you carry to work to bang the wheel pins back into the forklift legs—to lend weight to your indignation, they back-off. They have no self-respect to begin with. Unless they are swarming in zombie mode or juiced up, ‘back-off pal’ is an easy sell.

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