have you got any spare change?

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post your response/excuse here.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

If I do, and I haven't been hit up already that day, sure, WTF. What's a dollar?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

no, have you got any spare change?

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Can you break a hundred?

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

The one I used this morning before I went into the store: I don't have any cash.

The one I used 10 minutes later when I came out of the store: I paid with a card, I didn't get any change.

Both were completely true. I guess in retrospect I should have given the dude one of my granola bars or something.

I wonder if increased use of debit cards has cut into those dudes' business?

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

"why yes i do" .. *strolls on*.. *WHACK*

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

you know, i'm wearing pajama pants right now, and if i had some you know i'd definitely give it to you, but you can see that yeah, i'm just not wearing pants i'd have anything in the pockets of.

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Friday, 24 February 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

sorry, i need it.

honest and to the point.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 24 February 2006 07:31 (twenty years ago)

"no, i'm a dog."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 24 February 2006 07:56 (twenty years ago)

"no, i'm a dog.", a talking dog.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 24 February 2006 08:04 (twenty years ago)

"no, i gave it all to a beggar."

― the kit! (g-kit), Friday, 24 February 2006 08:17 (twenty years ago)

"have you got some, like?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 24 February 2006 08:19 (twenty years ago)

i just walk on by. i mean, wtf, i'm supposed to come up with excuses 7 times a day why i'm not going to give you money? that feels like work.

i hang up on telemarketers too.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 24 February 2006 08:31 (twenty years ago)

dude on 42nd street has been working this sign this week:

"brad and angelina are having a baby
and i need money to buy a gift"

and i'm like, ok, that's a little effort. but i didn't give him anything. the tourists'll take care of him.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 24 February 2006 08:33 (twenty years ago)

"whats it for? Oh a bus fare? Here Ive got a tramcard you can have. Why are you yelling at me? argh"

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 February 2006 08:39 (twenty years ago)

I ate it all

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Friday, 24 February 2006 09:30 (twenty years ago)

"brad and angelina are having a baby
and i need money to buy a gift"

Was this fella's picture in some gossip rags or other (poss National Enquirer) or did I just dream this?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

gah i hate that "got 10p for a cup of tea?" "no but i'll buy you a cup of tea." "fuck off." only a couple of times i got taken up on it. once this woman got me to buy her a saveloy. i didn't think people ate those in real life.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:23 (twenty years ago)

My favorite, from college: "I need 37 cents to make a phone call."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Real life is the best place to eat saveloys.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

what are they actually made of? no actually, i don't want to know. the only other time i've ever seen anyone even handling one of those things is in withnail & i. it is the wrong colour!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

i've basically turned into the protagonist of an '80s morality tale.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

I stopped for gas at a fairly sketchy Detroit gas station once - they just had gas pumps and a little bulletproof box for the guy to sit in - and two guys asked me for seventeen cents. I asked why they needed such a specific amount of money and was told that this would let them buy enough gas to fill the warped plastic McDonald's cup they were holding so they could go and huff it. I didn't give them any money.

People usually don't ask me for change because I look really mean, despite not being very mean at all.

― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

saveloys are tasty.

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 25 February 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

saveloy = corruption of cerebellum (via cervello)

hence contents of saveloy = tainted BRANE!!!¡

(it is the grouse of zombies)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 February 2006 13:19 (twenty years ago)

The battered sav is a great Aussie junkfood tradition! Esp with some tomato sauce dipped onto the end, whereupon it becomes the Dagwood Dog (no idea why). Somewhat like its american cousin the corndog, only made out of a saveloy and battered and deepfried. Nummm.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 25 February 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

"Have you got any spare change?"

"I don't know, I'm not dead yet."

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Saturday, 25 February 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

All I've got are 50's.

― Boo, Saturday, 25 February 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

the best response is to pretend they dont' exist. look right through them.

― anony, Saturday, 25 February 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

I would totally give the gas huffers some change. Honesty is important.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Saturday, 25 February 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

speaking about "honest" panhandlers: there's this guy that i see in midtown every now and then, who has a handwritten cardboard sign that reads: "i need some money to spend on crack, booze, and hookers."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 25 February 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

yeah honesty has long since been just another shtick. for all you know he's really gonna spend that money on preventive health care.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 25 February 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

There's this guy on the subway who has a somewhat convincing story in that he has gone from "weeks" to "months" and now "years" ago that he got out of the hospital "diagnosed with AIDS." He is very hungry and if you could find it in your heart to spare a little change, etc. He looks ill and his voice is incredibly annoying. But, frankly, as pathetic as he appears, this is also part of the reason I have never helped the poor guy out. He is too pathetic, as if he is trying to be so fucking pathetic and annoying that you feel compelled to help him. It doens't seem like people ever really give him change. More like they just recoil from him in case he's got an open wound somewhere.

― Boy, Saturday, 25 February 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I do give change to the people I see in downtown Seattle on a regular basis, because they've shown that -- sadly -- they may not get anywhere beyond asking for change in downtown Seattle for a long time.

The meth kids on Broadway with the designer Hot Topic/Rave clothers, however...

― Da Na Not! (donut), Saturday, 25 February 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

I write them MAAAAD checks... to the Bon Marche. "Get some REAL clothes, you silly scamps", then they run off and become outstanding local citizens who put on punk rock shows and inspire a new generation.

― Da Na Not! (donut), Saturday, 25 February 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

The women who ask for change on the tube in London were the most amusing to me, because I've never seen women in huddle up clothes before ask for the change in the form of holding up a small piece of paper that has 500 words on it. This first happened to me within my first 10 minutes ever in England... I tried to read the woman's sign, but before I could read three words, she just took the sign away and moved on to the next person... like "Look, if you're actually going to READ the sign, you're wasting vital seconds of MY time being able to get 50p. Get with it... Psssh!"

― Da Na Not! (donut), Saturday, 25 February 2006 22:20 (twenty years ago)

In a car park as i attempt to pay at the pay station, scruffy looking man asks me

"Have you got a spare £1 so i can catch the train. My car is in the car park but i've lost my keys and need to get to the hospital because my wife has just gone into labour."

If he was genuine, i feel pretty bad, but it was such a long winded story it was probably bullshit.

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Saturday, 25 February 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Most passive-aggressive i'm-truly-fucked-and-you-suck-for-not-caring beggars: Vancouver, BC outside Gastown.

― Da Na Not! (donut), Saturday, 25 February 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

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