![]() ![]() I had just bought some pasta salad to take home for lunch, but I gave it to him and he was just so grateful to have some food. The most heart warming experience for me was a guy on the blue line who was crying actual tears and saying how hungry he was. He never asks me for anything expensive, and I'm happy to do that. He knows I don't really have any money (I see him often and we chat), but I often buy him whatever snack he wants. There's a guy who's pretty nice that hangs around a walgreens near me. ![]() It was pretty obvious she wasn't hungry when she walked away. I've bought several people meals, but you're right-most don't want that. How should I have dealt with this situation better? I want to be compassionate, and I can understand how someone who found (for whatever reason) that they had to beg money from strangers might feel, but I also don't want to put myself in danger and I don't want to encourage threatening stuff like that. Once I was up on the platform he kept shouting that he could still see me, this is shameful, etc. He didn't follow me up the stairs, but he stood right outside them and shouted up at me about how this was shameful. We walked a couple more blocks this way until finally I got to the brown line station. I kept telling him I was sorry but I couldn't help him, but he just wouldn't leave me alone. He asked my name, asked me where I was from, talked about how we as hungry, etc, etc. He turned friendlier but wouldn't stop following me. (I know full well that trying to shake strangers' hands on the street is a tactic used almost exclusively by people who want to engage you when you have no interest in engaging them, and in the circumstances I felt like it was also a bit threatening.) He followed me for probably a block like this, until I eventually apologized for not shaking his hand and said I was sorry but I couldn't help him out. I tried to ignore him and just keep walking, but he kept following me, and started talking about how rude it was to not shake someone's hand. One of them kept walking with me and tried to shake my hand. I said "I'm sorry, I can't help you" and kept walking. As I walked past, a couple of them asked me for money. There's a poorly-lit stretch between Dearborn and Clark, and there were about four guys just standing there in the darkness talking to each other. I was walking west on Chicago towards the brown line stop at Franklin (by myself and by the way I am male). I had kind a kind of freaky incident yesterday night at about 9:30PM. Rule 10: Crime-related posts that do not have a wider impact on the city will be removed Rule 9: Buying/Selling/Giveaway posts, and posts looking for roommates/housing or employment, are not allowed Articles about the same topic but from different sources are OK. Rule 8: Do not post links that have already been posted in /r/chicago within the past month. Rule 7: Don’t break the site or do anything that interferes with the normal use of Reddit. Rule 6: Use correct flairs when submitting content, and mark NSFW content as NSFW Rule 5: Do not impersonate an individual or entity in a misleading or deceptive manner Rule 4: Do not post illegal content or solicit illegal or prohibited transactions. Rule 3: Do not engage in spamming, vote manipulation, brigading, ban evasion or subscriber fraud Rule 2: Do not harass, bully, threaten or doxx others Rule 1: All posts should be relevant and specific to Chicago
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