Some can be found on the same corner, day after day, at the exact same time—kind of like…a job, and a fair amount of the time, it’s a young able bodied person who could work just as hard as you do if they wanted to. If you’re cynical to this practice, like I am, seeing them probably evokes a bit of anger or annoyance in you.
But there are also those of us who can never tell a panhandler, “No”. Sometimes panhandlers are relentless in begging for money, and when you feel sorry for them, you just cave in and pay ‘em. Even when you know they’ll likely use...