I just lost all faith in humanity tonight.

  Unless you know the homeless person, dont trust them.

I've had my share of uncomfortable encounters with homeless. The most help I give them now is just some spare change if anything.

A lot of homeless people have some form of mental illness.  You may not have been dealing with a perfectly rational person. 

Some people cannot be helped no matter what you do

If you choose to do kindness, do it for its own sake, do not expect kindness in return.

Likewise do not form the view that everyone is heartless for that is also not the case.

The world is a mixed bag ; the good, the bad, the ugly.

This night you saw the ugly.

The rest of us saw the good.

Rule #1 is always to be self-reliant, and not depend on the kindness of others for it may not be forthcoming.

Rule #2 is moral jurisprudence. To always be kind is stupid. To always be heartless is harmful to yourself. The "right thing" depends on making the right decision at the right time. Almost everyone has been kind at one time or another. Almost everyone has been cruel at one time or another.

The homeless man you met may have done wonderful things for others in the past. But now?

Nobody is %100 good or %100 bad.

Your first mistake was letting him into your car. Just be thankful you're not dead in a ditch somewhere.PernicioEnigma

That's pretty ***** what he did considering a lot of people wouldn't have gone that far.  I certainly wouldn't have.  I give props to you TC for trying to be benevolent even if that person didn't deserve it.

Your first mistake was letting him into your car. Just be thankful you're not dead in a ditch somewhere.PernicioEnigma

Actually the first mistake was acknowledging his existence. When I walk around town, I have headphones on, I don't listen to anybody, and I don't even look at anyone unless I know them, or they're an employee at whatever local business I'm patronizing.

Your first mistake was letting him into your car. Just be thankful you're not dead in a ditch somewhere.PernicioEnigma

You're lucky you're not dead. You should never help the homeless in that way.

You're a nicer man than me. I wouldn't let a homeless person get in my car. Commander-Gree

Being smart is better then being nice. 

How can you lose your faith in humanity over this. This guy doesn't function like a normal human being becuase if he did, he would not be living on the streets. 

I've stumbled across very few homeless people in my time that I would consider to be "all there".  I can't say for certain whether that is a product of them being homeless or the reason why they are, but most of them are very out of touch with reality.  The fact that they just expect things to be given to them without contributing anything to society makes me not feel all that bad for them either way.  You can call me heartless if you'd like.  I spend a great deal of my time volunteering for various charities, but I refuse to give them money as well.  If being CEO of a large charity stops being so lucrative, perhaps I will change my mind.

The homeless problem is directly related to the mental health issue, which Reagan cut when he was in office.  Thirty years ago this guy could have had his meds, hold a stable job, and might even have a wife and kids.  Now he is homeless.

Homeless people tend to be homeless for a variety of reasons, mental instability being one of them.

Don't let a homeless person into your car.

SPYDER0416

Well, all I can say is that you acted very kindly.  Much nicer than the majority of people in the world, as well as here in OT would.  Turns out he was instable, and you were smart not to let him stay in your house.  In any case, I think what you did was very nice, and so you have restored a bit of my faith in humanity.

You should've ignored him from the start.Lonelynight

As he walked away, all I could think to say is "that's extemely racist"WillisTron1

Title is a little dramatic. 

Many homeless people are mentally unstable, on drugs, etc., so it doesn't really surprise me that much how poorly he reacted. 

Don't give bums anything more than food.

and don't expect alot from them. The racist thing was messed up, but it's kinda expected.

Why would you let a stranger into your car? That's just asking for something bad to happen. 

Dude, don't feel bad for being so angry...hell I envy you for your patience and tolerance of the guy for so long, after he has the nerve to keep asking you for stuff after each subsequent favor without a single thank you.  I probably would've lost my temper with him much sooner.

Clearly he has more problems than any of us can begin to understand. Sure he's homeless, which must be horrible but he clearly has much more problems up there than any of us can comprehend.  If anything we should feel sorry for him, but I greatly understand your anger since the story makes me angry myself. 

Be a man.

Your first mistake was letting him into your car. Just be thankful you're not dead in a ditch somewhere.PernicioEnigma

The guy's just an a**hole. Don't get worked up over it. Just give em money. Nothing more.

There is nothing worse then picking someone up with the hopes of having sex and then it not happening :(

tenaka2

i can't lie i lol'd

 

If you choose to do kindness, do it for its own sake, do not expect kindness in return.

Likewise do not form the view that everyone is heartless for that is also not the case.

The world is a mixed bag ; the good, the bad, the ugly.

This night you saw the ugly.

The rest of us saw the good.

Rule #1 is always to be self-reliant, and not depend on the kindness of others for it may not be forthcoming.

Rule #2 is moral jurisprudence. To always be kind is stupid. To always be heartless is harmful to yourself. The "right thing" depends on making the right decision at the right time. Almost everyone has been kind at one time or another. Almost everyone has been cruel at one time or another.

The homeless man you met may have done wonderful things for others in the past. But now?

Nobody is %100 good or %100 bad.

LazySloth718

I feel like I just reead 15 Chinese fortune cookies.

At OP: The guys was probably a few cards short of a deck, something not too uncommon in homeless people, unfortunately.

Maybe cutting his throat would have been a better option.

Donate your money or time to the local homeless shelters.....but dont interact with the homeless directly.

I realize it was the smartest move to allow a homeless person into my car, and I also realize the topic title may be a little dramatic, but what I really meant is how shocking it was to me that you could feed and help someone, only to have them be a complete a$$ over the fact of there being no more subsequent favors. 

And I see a few people saying I'll "be rewarded" - for the record, I (and I would hope most people) don't do things like that anticipating a reward of some sorts, helping people generally makes me feel better. Although again I realize now there are much better ways to do so. Thanks for words though, I'm certainly over it, for some reason it just really bugged me that night. 

You're lucky to be alive and in the future, you have to learn the difference between compassion and having common sense. I assume this homeless man was white for him to say what he said. Truth be told, I don't see how any white man in this country can be homeless unless they did something foul to their family and everyone in their community turned their back on them.

Shouldn't have let him in the car in the first place. Ungrateful ahole. He's lucky you even bothered to pick him up. He should've just been happy that he was able to have some good food to be put in his mouth. It's good you wanted to help but there are some situations where you shouldn't. I wouldn't recommend doing that again. If he told me that, I would've wanted to jump out the car and beat the food that I payed for out of him.