Went to pick up an amazon package, a new shower hose from a local collection point outside a shop.
I grab my package and cross over, some young woman with a dog comes over the street after me "I was coming to talk to you, Do you have a couple of quid so I can get a hotel room?"....
I state I don't use cash and walk on down the back alleys back towards where I live.
She goes down the main street.
I pop out back onto the main road about 6 streets down and shes there with her dog again...
I'm convinced someone walking their dog, who probably lives on my street or next to it, literally begged me for cash...
I see the same guy in the city centre near the bus station all the time asking for 1.50 to get home, and early in the morning you see them all headed to town with their sleeping bags...
No shame these days and I blame all t he soft touches who can't say no or blank them..
I got approached by some African woman offering business the other week as well , literally one street away from where I live, she asked if I was local and I said n o because I thought she was going to ask for directions
I bet she was trying to avoid propositioning someone who lives near her as she was probably on her way home or something
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I looked at her in disgust and walked off
she tutted at me
No offence to people who do that but Business is such a dirty sounding word to me