Panhandled Twice In 10 Minutes
Okay, it was actually closer to twice in three minutes, but the title just flows better this way. I just got back from a quick run to Taco Bell and the liquor store at Monterey and Dunne. This entire trip takes less than 15 minutes for me, including waiting in the drive-thru at Taco Bell.
As I’m waiting for my food at the window a drunk guy in his 20s starts wandering up the drive-thru driveway. Ijust shake my head as I assume he’s going to try to order and I know that most drive-thrus won’t allow this. Instead, as he gets up to my car he breathes his horrid beer breath in my face and asks if I can spare some change. I turn him down and ease down the driveway, making sure he’s not getting in the way of my vehicle.
After making a U-turn at Dunne I pull in to the parking lot across the street to grab some smokes at the liquor store and as I return to my car I get panhandled again, by a totally different dunk twenty-something.
What is happening to our idyllic little semi-wealthy suburb? In the four years I’ve lived here now I’ve never actually been panhandled before. Sure, there has been the guy who plays his guitar in the Safeway and Nob Hill parking lots, but he’s more busker than bum. There’s also my daughter’s favorite: the guy who would occaisionally appear at the Nob Hill exits with his sign stating he needed $72 (or some such) for a bus ticket home. Of course, the fact the he was there on and off for more than six-months is no indication that the sign is complete BS.
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