How to Keep 25% of Homeless People From Asking You For Money

Hoover  11 Mar, 2007  Off Topic

If you’re like me, you absolutely hate it when homeless people bother you for money. Nine times out ten, they don’t want money for food. Instead, they’re trying to feed their drug or alcohol habit while successfully being detriments to society.

I’ve found a great way to stop 1 in 4 homeless people from bothering you. It’s a simple t-shirt:

Plenty of Change

It only stops 1 in 4 homeless people from asking you for money because that’s the estimated number that can actually read. It’s still worth the price of admission.

This makes my tshirt, Call Blows, look like crap. I bow down to the skills of the TShirtHell.com designers.

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11 Comments so far »

  1. Cherokee said

    March 11 2007 @ 11:58 am

    lol…Wow, I don’t guess you’re vying for any humanism awards, Hoover?

  2. Hoover said

    March 11 2007 @ 12:37 pm

    I actually won a Humanism In Medicine award as a medical student.

    Wait, that wasn’t me after all. =)

  3. Cherokee said

    March 13 2007 @ 6:34 pm

    Yeah, that’s what came to mind…the antithesis of the “Humanism In Medicine” award!

    Seriously, perhaps by starting this essentially anonymous blog to show people the brutal realities of medical education you’re the TRUE humanist?

  4. Nicole said

    November 15 2007 @ 4:17 am

    Your attitude towards people affected by homelessness is completely inappropriate. Your statement that 9 times out of 10, people want the money for drugs or alcohol is completely false, since fewer than 25% of the homeless population has a drug or alcohol problem. People like you are a detriment to society.

  5. Hoover said

    November 15 2007 @ 9:40 pm

    lol@Nicole

  6. Susan Wilkolawski said

    November 24 2007 @ 5:41 pm

    As a homeless, educated woman,I find your statements regarding the homeless blatenly ignorant. Most homeless people can and do read. You will find us @ the library, reading the newspaper or on the computers. By my estimates, perhaps half the people on the street here in Los Angeles are afflicted with substance abuse problems. Clearly, serious mental illnesses such as scizophenia and depression play pivotal roles in the lives of those of us on the street.
    It seems to me Hoover,that you have no interest in learning the truth, but justly feel vindicated sphewing hatred toward other human beings because of their socio-economic class. I have met many like you while panhandling myself. People, not content with
    just saying no, who chose to take their rage out on us—because they have had a bad day, or because they are just seething with anger–a hatred internalized and purged on people who’s only crime was to ask for help. I wonder what happens to people who have no humanity left to them. I know that they are sociopaths. But what tricks do they use in public to pass for homo sapien sapiens? Is your human form enough to make people know that you, Hoover are human? Or do people see beyond the facade into a heart of darkness?
    Susan Wilkolawski

  7. Chad said

    November 29 2007 @ 3:16 pm

    THAT BITCH GOT A GREASY ASS FO’ HEAD!

  8. Chad said

    November 29 2007 @ 3:20 pm

    Homeless man ain’t got no rent, asking you for thirty cent, if you would just be a gent, and drop it in my cup and watch me… YUUUUUUUUU! BEEYATCH!

    im as a matter of fact IM homeless so u can kiss my shiny metal ass! IMA ROBOT!!!!

    IT’S US HOMELESS PEOPLES FAULT!!!! IM HOMELESS, THATS WHY IM ON A COMP? LAWL @ Susan

  9. kathern said

    November 30 2007 @ 8:35 am

    Your t-shirt is one of the most disgraceful things I have ever seen. Does your mother know you treat people like this?

  10. did u get my taquitos yet? said

    December 4 2007 @ 3:08 am

    I LOVE THIS. It’S WHAT EVERY 1 IS REALLY THINKING; err am i the only 1 that thinks this is funny. lawl AT Susan Wilko(LAWL)ski.

  11. JaclynH said

    April 28 2008 @ 3:19 pm

    This is my first post on this site, which is FABULOUS by the way. I know I’m a bit late to post here, but I just had to if only for the benefit of personal relief and venting I just had to say I love the shirt. And I bet you aren’t homeless as you claim to be,Susan. If you are you seem educated enough that you could get your ass off the library computer and to a nearby McDonalds to apply. Or, better yet, to a recruiting station where you can enroll in the military and quit being a lazy know it all bum.
    The only deserving begger I’ve ever met and given a dollar to was because of his creativity. Instead of the every day “I’m hungry. Please spare a dollar.” sign his read, “I know I’m ugly, but I’m hungry too.”

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