Manchester
Same place, same situation, two wildly different results

Myself and my girlfriend getting cash out from the ATM outside the Spar in the Northern Quarter.

1) Really friendly bloke smiles and goes, "have you got a spare £10,000 please mate?" Not the most original line ever, but like with jokes it's how you tell 'em. He now regularly gets all my spare change.

2) 40-ish guy standing about 18 inches from the cashpoint (easily close enough to smell the piss and cider) and says to me, "You got 80p?" I say no, get my cash and then wait for my better half to get hers. He goes "You got 80p" to her and he's being fairly aggressive. She concentrates on the cashpoint and he starts looking over her shoulder so I have move in between them, he asks his question again and again she obviously and purposefully avoids eye contact etc. She gets her cash and we're about to walk away when he goes, "Are you going to give me that 80p or what?" I tell him, "Look, you've asked four times now, clearly we're not going to give you any money - could you leave us alone eh?", get shouted back at, "I was asking her not you - now am I getting my 80p".

I think it's best to just walk away briskly at this point rather than get into any shit, 200 yards away there's already a pint on the table with my name on it. The fucker follows us ranting about his 80p and I finally snap, "Do you ever stop to wonder why you're begging? Can't have been your fucking personality that got you here could it?" I'm not normally like that but for fuck's sake...

Just goes to show that there are good & bad in all walks of life..
(hating swallows is 20 yards from the nearest Jaffa cake, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 10:33, Reply)