Wow! This lady has the WORST luck ever!

[Greg]

You're right; I apologize.

[coppercoin40]

These conversations always make me flip flop back and forth on views! Guess debate is part of public forum participation... Greg, I admire the forth right apology I see both of you making good points of view on many topics

These times sure seem to have brought more desperation for so many. I feel so very fortunate of my humble life

[Steve W]

She hit me up as well at Walmart, new age entrepreneur?

[Funkstopper]

I haven't been on punaweb for a while because the tone went downhill with so many trolls. Greg-your quick apology has restored my faith that there are some still well reasoned adults here on Punaweb.
Mahalo.

[Hunt Stoddard]

I doubt it's a deliberate act meant to deceive. It's more like a pretense meant to maintain a certain amount of dignity. In these times, only a fool would think that a person approaching them asking for gas money is actually asking for gas money. Who does that? Nobody. It's only for show, so that some semblance of human dignity might be maintained. So, I think Greg is right. If you aren't capable of reading more into the situation, understanding what is probably a desperate human plight, you just aren't thinking about it enough. I think oink and everyone else here making fun of this woman should stop, sit quietly and think about it a bit more. And Greg, don't be so fast to call truce. "Tough Love" is usually more tough than love.

[oink]

Greg certainly owes me no apology but I accept the intention of his post as read. Thanks
I don't recall making fun of the woman.
I'll not perpetuate the thread further.

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[DanielP]

One reason that the gas ploy works so well is that it gives the notion that the "trash" will be moving on to a different locale.

[Kapohocat]

I have seen her also in many places - I just give her my completed Malama gas cards if I have any.

Once I was on I5 - forgot my purse at my friend's house in Dana Point, was almost to work in Glendale, when I realized I was seconds from being out of gas as my car gasped and choked. (Literally 2 miles from work). A nice lady stopped and helped me out. I didnt get her name written down so I never paid her back the 2 gals of gas.

I figure if someone asks me for gas money in this kind of situation, I give them a couple of bucks - I do not ask why, and I dont question it even if they repeated the request every day - because someone gave to me - no questions asked. But if I am in Malama parking lot - I do try to give them my gas coupons instead of cash.

That said, as in Demolition Man - I worry that PC-ness can go too far:

"Most people speak in an odd formal dialect with sanitized euphemisms, such as "joy-joy." Profanity is outlawed and its use triggers automatically dispensed citation. All restaurants are Taco Bells, which "won the franchise wars" and evolved into fine-dining establishments that serve nouvelle cuisine. Twentieth-century advertising jingles are heard as popular music. Sexual intercourse and french kisses are illegal. In addition, it is stated there are no "non-natural caused deaths" since 2016; when Phoenix murders the CryoPrison warden and officers in order to escape, the police are notified with a "1–8–7" (Murder-Death-Kill), a code none of them can remember. Firearms can only be found at a museum and officers carry stun batons that act like tasers. In terms of police training, virtually none is given towards physical combat. As one policeman states, "We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!" Furthermore, they are highly dependent on handheld computers to instruct them on how to handle volatile situations, rather than using their own judgement.

By 2032, toilet paper has fallen out of use; a set of three seashells is provided in every toilet stall.

[2liveque]

She was bumm'n for dollars at the Kino'ole/Kawailani Shell station the other day. Same deal, with Gas can in hand.

[SandyS]

Kapohocat, I don't know about sea shells, but at Costco yesterday they were selling a toliet seat that claimed to do away with toliet paper. It had a heater, a water sprayer and a dryer!