Let's call them what they are...Shysters...

I was on my way to work this morning and like every morning I get to sit for several minutes trying to get through the intersection at Anderson Mill Road and 183. It was a decent morning. A bit drizzly but I put the top on the Defender so I was staying dry.

For some reason I noticed a black late model Honda Acccord pull into the parking lot at Half Price Books. I watched a quite shabbily dressed lady get out of the car. Didn't look like she should be driving a car like that. I then watched her walk around to her trunk and get something out. Don't ask me why I was watching her. You do these things when you've got no radio to listen to I guess. It looked like a piece of cardboard or something. I then assumed she was headed to the UPS Store right next door but she didn't head that way. She started walking towards the intersection with her what I now guessed was a sign. Sure enough. She set up shop on the corner with her sign begging for money. *sigh* I guess there's enough suckers in the world to make it a decent paying line of work and no tax -free to boot.

It confirmed suspicions I've had for years. I have only ever been tempted to give money to one of these folks once. There is a lady that begs on the same corner fairly regularly. I don't know why but she seems genuinely ashamed that she's out there. She never looks you in the eye just at the ground and I've seen her crying several times. I just wonder where her two kids are they she claims she has on the sign. Probably with the nanny.