When Your Angry, Young and Poor (In this case hungry)

This happened to me yesterday and I really wanted a record of it so I can remember that there are heartless, selfish fucks in the world.

Lunch time: I was having a Sid moment and decided I wanted a pizza for lunch, I had been thinking about this pizza since like 9:30 a.m. I usually do not go to lunch until later in the day, helps pass my work time and I usually only eat once a day.

Anyway I drive up the street to Brand X pizza (they don't pay me, so no free plugs) which has a deal on a large pizza for $5.00! Bloody hell I'm for that, even if it sux you only dropped a fiver on it. Now as many will note I live in Las Vegas, Nevada at the moment, it gets rather hot here; but it is Spring time so the weather is still pretty nice. So with this in mind I decide to eat my pizza in the car so I can listen to music while I dine.

OK I knew there was no way I was going to eat a whole large pizza, maybe back in me youth, but not these days. Anyway our offices are located in a financially limited neighborhood (it's where the truly poor live, happy now?) While I'm eating I notice there is an obviously homeless man wandering about the parking lot. Now I'm not a crusader by any means, but there is one thing in this life I know very very well, what it feels like to be hungry. Not just I'm feeling a bit peckish think I'll have a lunch, but truly I don't have any food; haven't had any food in awhile hungry.

I had eaten a fair portion of the pizza (about 1/2) so I decide instead of wasting perfectly good food, I would offer the rest of my lunch to the poor gent who was obviously hungry. In Vegas, the wise also carry extra bottles of water, my Jeep has a center column cooler that keeps drinks at a cool level no matter the heat outside, so I take one out and with the pizza in hand offer it up to the gent, who was very appreciative of the repast and drink. I wished him well and started to walk back to me building to return to work, feeling that I had done the right thing.

It appears I didn't according to the next person entering the story. A lady from another office in our building had pulled in while I was giving this gent the pizza and water; there she sat in her new BMW, Jesus air freshener hanging from her rear view and a cross around her neck. She rolls down the window and starts shouting at me. "What are you doing! If you give them food they will keep coming back!" I'm blown away, it's not often that one can catch me off guard like that, I stood next to her car mouth a gap, in stunned silence. She continued to ramble on about how it took the property managers years to drive the homeless out of the parking lot (we have a kick ass parking lot, nice breezes and lots of shade). Now mind you the company I work for owns and manages the building, my boss and I are the ones everyone comes to with these matters.

So I explain to her that I know what it is to be hungry and I was just giving a hungry person some food. "But he's homeless!" she is almost screaming at me. Now I'm in total smart ass mode, because frankly she is pissing me off. So I retort, "Yes it appears so, which would mean he really doesn't have a place to keep food." Now I love the dense, it takes them forever to figure out that your one of those people who enjoys taking the piss out of other people.

Mind you the gent who received the pizza has already buggered off, I think he may have had a run in with this 'person' (Yeah I had about 100 different names in mind, but I haven't reached that point with her yet) before. So I'm listening to this person go on and on about how homeless people steal and relieve themselves in the plants and generally hang about making people nervous. How they are all mentally ill because they would rather live outside instead of getting a job and becoming useful (I'm so fucking tired of that word - useful). That tripped my last trigger, this cunt (I really hate using that word against any female, but she earned it in spades) sitting in her BMW, engine running so she could run the A/C wasting gas and polluting the air, with her Jesus hanging from the rear view and cross around her neck (I won't get into religion here if I can help it, you believe what you believe I believe what I believe; let's leave it at that)griefing me over giving a hungry person some food.

Those who know me know very well I (usually) can not pass up a chance to really go off on anyone. The folks I currently work for take a really dim view of this type of activity and she is obviously a tenant of our building, so I'm not allowed to go off and still keep me job. There were a myriad of things I wanted to say to her, "Nice Christian attitude, only feed hungry people if they have a place to live?" "Your right, Jesus would want him to starve to death, I bet that is his plan; right?" But instead I politely excused myself and assured her that I would not continue to feed the homeless in our parking lot.

I go back to my desk, not telling anyone what just happened; I just started this job and didn't want to get sacked. But I have a really bad habit of not being able to let things sit, I start to formulate a plan. I put on my I'm in deep thought about about producing my useful thing face and the gears start to turn. Now the tenants of our building must come to our department when they want something done. It's an old building so alot of things tend to go wrong. Low and behold, here comes miss complaint, "The A/C in my office is broken" My boss looks up and and starts listening to her story, I poke my head up over my monitor and grin, I don't believe a more evil grin has ever covered my visage. "No problem I say, let's go and have a look." It didn't register with her right away, but soon she realized who I was. Silence ensued as we walked down to her office. An easy fix, usually on needs to turn on the A/C unit to get it to work. But I notice that her office faces out to the sidewalk on the public street. Our parking lot sort of got reconfigured to make way for a bus inlet, so an old part of a parking overhang serves as an extended shade spot for the bus passengers, which is right outside her window.

Today, Friday! WOOT! I can't complain about me job really, it's very easy and filled to the brim with down time. Our president knows this, so has graciously granted us a paid half day. So on top of casual Friday with absolutely nothing to do; I have already put me plan into action. I called the pizza joint as soon as the opened and put in an order for 20 pies, I picked up 2 cases of water and a case of cola, found a very nice long table in the storeroom, today my hungry friends, homeless or not... Lunch is on me... Right outside this cunts window, on the public sidewalk. Stop by for a slice if your so inclined.

Let the country feed ya, let the country feed ya, let the country feed you. Animal - Anti Nowhere League.