What would you do if a scraggly homeless person knocked on your door, and all he asked was for a sandwich, a bottle of water, a bath, and perhaps a beard trim?
What would you do if a scraggly homeless person knocked on your door, and all he asked was for a sandwich, a bottle of water, a bath, and perhaps a beard trim?
I've actually skipped work just to help a homeless guy get his beard trimmed. Bought him pizza too. Kinda hard to get anywhere in life when you look like shit.
Be kind to the homeless, they just need a helping hand here and there.
What would you do?
100% this.
I was a volunteer treasurer at a youth homeless shelter.
Sadly, it's not possible to evaluate someone's intentions when they knock on your door and ask for a sandwich. They might truly just want a sandwich, or they might have other intentions entirely.
Our local cities have been shutting down homeless assistance and food banks. Even the churches aren't allowed to help anymore.. ☹️😭
It's not typically the person that knocks that you gotta worry about, it's the person that doesn't knock that you really gotta worry about.
That's not very true, unfortunately. Knocking allows someone to somewhat figure out if anyone is home, allows a person to gauge who is home (a man or a woman) and how easily the knocker can gauge overtaking them. Breaking in means the homeowner may have time to get a weapon and means the knocker will have to search for anyone home.
Getting them to come up to the door and see if they're armed makes it easy if a person is looking for a victim. People just breaking in are usually hoping no one is home and just wants to rob the place.