u/the_great_elephant

Y'all stay cool out there... me, I'm just well done right now

So... I started a job recently. I should be getting my first paycheck this weekend. Being homeless and poor, I dont have access to banking right now. I recently got cashapp. Now, I'm not all that technically inclined, I'm a cash or credit card guy. Things like cashapp or apple pay or paying with your phone, all the things that covid made popular, passed me by. I never got into them.

Anyways, so I got a cashapp account. Its an app on my phone, not the actual card. When I got the job, I gave them the direct deposit information, so my paycheck should be on there this weekend. Problem is, how do I access it? I don't have an actual, physical card. I get that I can make purchases thru the app, or with my phone. But how do I access actual cash without am ATM card of sorts? One thing I really need to do is do laundry. I need to be able to get cash so I can get quarters (yes this laundromat still uses quarters).

Anyone able to explain to me how to turn cashapp into cash without an ATM?

Seriously, I keep seeing comments by people who are mad, literally angry, because some restaurant workers make decent money. Like, their whole rational for not tipping is because they think the waiter makes too much. Dude got all kinds of sand in his vagina because once upon a time, me as a waiter, apparently made more than an RN. Like, who cares?

Some jobs out there pay more than others. Some jobs require 10 years of school and training, and some jobs can be done by a 4th grade dropout. Yes, usually people with more education make more money, but thats not always the case- there are garbage truck drivers making more than school prinicipals. Damn, I'm poor these days- there are homeless people with more money than I got. I dont dislike them for having heavier pockets than I do.

Why bother getting all whiny over how much someone else makes? Who cares? Why should someone's income dictate how you interact with them?

What ever happened to just minding your own business?

I can't believe this shit... I just can't catch a break for anything. I finally find a job last week, and I come back to my camp in the woods this afternoon... and its gone. Gone. My tent, sleeping bag, what few clothes I have, my little cooler for my insulin... its all gone. Thrown away. Just like the rest of my life, thrown away.

Crazy shit is this is where the social worker more or less ordered me to camp out at. It was unused state land. Now I've got nothing to my name but some greasy clothes and a soda cup.

And people wonder why I'm so fucking hateful.

Everyone on here seems so quick to want to refer to my history, to judge when they dont know what theyre talking about. My ex wife is a forensic investigator for child protective services. I was still in the process of adopting iur daughter when my wife decided to cheat on me, and then after the separation she began using the system (her system, she called it) against me. She claimed falsely that i was stalking and terrorizing them, plotting to kidnap our daughter from preschool. She worked in the very family court we did our case in. She lied and got protective orders against me, then lied and claimed I broke them, in order to have me thrown in jail. Family court judge ruled against my adoption proceeding, after my ex wife got to her. Her ruling was that since I wasnt the biological father, i had no rights to our kid.

I left the state for a few years (some stalker I was, moving 1,000 miles away from my victim). But after 5 years I hoped/assumed that things had blown over. I hadnt been in contact with my ex wife or daughter, and hoped something civil and cordial could be arranged. I moved back, about an hour from home. I didnt want to be living too close, because then my ex could scream "STALKER!" again. I figure an hour away was far enough to keep away from my wife, but close enough in case I was able to make progress with my daughter.

3 months after moving back home, I get arrested for some sick shit that I did not do. I at first thought I had been stopped by a DUI check, but it wasnt that. These were the detectives that worked with my wife. I was accused of this shit, given no bail, and because my finances were tied up (i had just bought a house and opened a restaurant) I got stuck with the free lawyer. The free lawyer who literally worked next door to my wife... and ate lunch with her regularly.

Im from a small town. Everyone knows each other. Everyone in local law enforcemnt, the courts, and lawyers all know each other. My wife is friends with alot of these people, and well, I wasnt.

I had minimal ability to defend myself from the charges, being in jail and not working, not able to come up with the cash for a real lawyer. The public pretender would just tell ms what the prosecutor was pushing, and refused to mount a defense, take the case to trial, or even male an argument on my behalf. I ended up losing the restaurant, my house, my vehicle, everything. After a year and a half in jail, i broke and took the deal, 5 years. 5 years for a crime I didnt do. At the time it seemed the quickest way out of the mess.

So now, im out of prison. Im "exiled" to living in my hometown, court ordered here. Ive got no family here, none really anywhere anymore. No friends here anymore, everyone here "knows" what I did, and hates me for it. Im a convicted felon. Im broke with no support system, so I'm literally court ordered to be homeless here. Im ordered to camp in the woods outside of town.

My life was destroyed because my ex wife decided she liked short, fat, ugly dudes more than me. After divorce I still loved them. I could accept that my ex didnt want me, but I couldnt accept losing my daughter, so I didnt go away quietly. I wanted to be there for her, to watch her grow up, to do all the things everyone else gets to do with their kids. I love that kid and just wanted to be the dad she deserved, and the dad that I promised I'd be when her mother asked me to adopt. I tried to do the right thing. I tried.... fuck I tried. I dont know what else to do, all I know is I lost. Our daughter lost.

Now, shes gone. Its been 10 years since I seen her. Now, her mother has had it arranged that I was court ordered to have no contact with our daughter. Ill never legally be able to see her, not now, not when she's 30.

My life was destroyed because I genuinely wanted to do the right thing. I had myself convinced that in the end, love wins. The good guys win. Happily ever after. All that bullshit. Now I know its all fiction. The bad guys are the ones that come out on top.

What are the odds someone would be willing to hook me up with dinner? Im at a truck stop, you could order online? Or im next to a mcdonalds... im just hungry and wont get my first paycheck for another week or two. I also have cash app-

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Thanks in advance!!

Its a horrible thing to say. Im homeless, so I understand people out there are hurting and struggling. But i see ads where someone's car broke down, and now they are begging for money to buy a new car. Ive had cars die on me, you know what I did?? I walked to work and saved for another.

I saw another ad where someone claims they blew their money on strippers or some shit, and had the nerve to ask for rent money. I really have to wonder if that was a real ask??

Then there was the chick who posted her pic and claimed she needed help paying her bills because she was "too cute to be living on her car."

Its just crazy out there. And some of these people actually get donations. Meanwhile I go hungry half the time, and I work.

Just drives me crazy.... rant over

I'm garbage, the universe has been telling me for years. I just never listened. My ex wife threw me away like garbage. My friends threw me away like garbage. My family threw me away like garbage. The prison system threw me away like garbage. Society has thrown me away like garbage. Everyone, literally anyone who looks at me looks at garbage.

Im homeless. Im fucking hungry today. I tried going into a local pizza place, hoping that if I offered to wash some dishes or clean a bathroom, that it might earn me some dinner. The manager seemed cool, he was like "yes, I'll get you something to eat, just go around back and meet me by the backdoor. Just think it would be better if customers don't have to see you out front looking the way you do."

So, I go around back behind the restaurant. As I get around towards the back, I can see a couple of kitchen workers standing by the backdoor. I walk up and then the manager and another guy walk out carrying a bucket, and they yell something about washing away the garbage at me- as they hurled the bucket of boiling hot water in my direction! I got mostly out of the way, but it just goes to show that people can't be trusted to be decent.

As made clear to me again today, I'm garbage. I only exist on this earth so that people can steal from me, lie about me, and hurt me and its still morally acceptable. Fuck this shit.

I hate doing this, but hell I'm hungry. Im sitting at a truck stop and I'm just hungry. Im homeless and there arent alot of options or resources available to me at the moment. I start a job tomorrow, and I assume I'll be able to eat there, but I need something today. I dont eat crazy, I stopped eating 3 or even 2 meals a day a long time ago. What are the odds anyone is feeling generous? Thanks...

Its just minimum wage, but hopefully theyll feed me (its a burger joint), and in 2 weeks I'll have a few bucks in my pocket.

Sad part is even after a while, I still wont be able to afford to live like a normal person. But ill think about that later...

Its been storming all day here in Virginia- rain, wind, lightening. I been hunkered down in the tent trying to keep it from getting blown away or flooded out... its 3 am and the rain has finally let up for a bit. I hiked up the road to the truck stop so I could use the bathroom and their wifi... maybe if I get lucky I'll be able to score a cup of coffee to warm up.

Woke up today really feeling like shit

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Feeling rough today. Dont know what exactly the cause, just super weak and light headed. Maybe its a diabetic thing? I ate yesterday so i expected to feel okay today. Ive had an ear infection for a week or so, but my immune system seems to have gotten over that hump. Maybe the ticks got me sick? Im pulling ticks off of me most mornings. I hobbled over here to the mcdonalds, barely made it. Just feeling rough today.... end rant

They really are. Pugs make me look sexy, so thats saying something. How can anyone love something so deformed looking???

I'm just hungry sitting outside a mcdonalds and damn, don't I wish. On the plus side, I did find a job, but I don't start till Wednesday at 9. And I wouldnt be getting paid for a couple weeks anyways. But, I'm hungry today...

Ain't that the saddest shit ever?? I'm 45, just out of prison after 4 years for a crime I didn't commit, I'm on probation now, homeless, have lost everything and everyone, and now I'm living in a tent in the woods. I'm down to looking for minimum wage work, hoping I can get hired by Burger King....

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Ain't that the saddest shit ever??

Almost just got killed trying to get a sandwich... I'm not asking for anything, I'm just mad as hell.

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So, I'm friggin' hungry as hell today. Hadn't eaten yet today. When you get hungry enough, your judgement lapses. So, I walked into a grocery store to do some "shopping".... only I dont have any money, so you know how this gonna go.

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I go in, and head to the deli section. They usually have those premade sandwiches, so I figure I'll try grabbing a couple. I grab them, slide them down my pants, and head for the exit, trying not to attract attention.

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I get out the store, and walk around the parking lot. As I'm in the back of the store, planning on eating right there, two store employees come out of a back door yelling at me about being a shoplifter. Don't know how they knew that, maybe someone saw me on camera, watched me walk out and around the store? I dont know... anyways, I get up and run the other wayand by now theres a police car coming. I assume its not a random cop, someone called about me being a shoplifter. So theres a cop car and 2 store employees chasing me behind the store.

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Behind the store was kind of a wooded area, so I crawled up the hill and ran into the woods. In my head I'm imagining the cop calling for dogs and helicopter backup like in the movies. I'm moving thru the woods, trying to put distance between the store and me but not knowing where I'm going or whats on the other side of the woods. I can hear the traffic on the highway to my right, so I'm moving towards the left, trying to get away from the road.

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After about 20 minutes in the woods, I come to a fucking cliff! An actual cliff area, maybe a 50 foot drop. I dont know if the cops are still behind me looking for me so my options are going back the way I came, or trying to climb down this cliff thing. I chose the cliff...

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Im not in great shape anymore. Hell, i usually barely have the energy to fart. Now im trying to climb down this rocky cliff thing to keep from going to jail. And of course I slip and fall... maybe 20 feet? About halfway down. Now I'm all banged up, bleeding all over the place, possibly sprained ankle, hurting like hell- all over a couple of sandwiches, which I now realize I never got to eat. They got left behind the store.

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All this fucking pain and sweat just to be hungrier than I was 3 hours ago. Fuck this shit. Now I just need a nap, a long nap.

Almost just got killed trying to get a sandwich... I'm not asking for anything, I'm just mad as hell.

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So, I'm friggin' hungry as hell today. Hadn't eaten yet today. When you get hungry enough, your judgement lapses. So, I walked into a grocery store to do some "shopping".... only I dont have any money, so you know how this gonna go.

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I go in, and head to the deli section. They usually have those premade sandwiches, so I figure I'll try grabbing a couple. I grab them, slide them down my pants, and head for the exit, trying not to attract attention.

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I get out the store, and walk around the parking lot. As I'm in the back of the store, planning on eating right there, two store employees come out of a back door yelling at me about being a shoplifter. Don't know how they knew that, maybe someone saw me on camera, watched me walk out and around the store? I dont know... anyways, I get up and run the other wayand by now theres a police car coming. I assume its not a random cop, someone called about me being a shoplifter. So theres a cop car and 2 store employees chasing me behind the store.

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Behind the store was kind of a wooded area, so I crawled up the hill and ran into the woods. In my head I'm imagining the cop calling for dogs and helicopter backup like in the movies. I'm moving thru the woods, trying to put distance between the store and me but not knowing where I'm going or whats on the other side of the woods. I can hear the traffic on the highway to my right, so I'm moving towards the left, trying to get away from the road.

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After about 20 minutes in the woods, I come to a fucking cliff! An actual cliff area, maybe a 50 foot drop. I dont know if the cops are still behind me looking for me so my options are going back the way I came, or trying to climb down this cliff thing. I chose the cliff...

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Im not in great shape anymore. Hell, i usually barely have the energy to fart. Now im trying to climb down this rocky cliff thing to keep from going to jail. And of course I slip and fall... maybe 20 feet? About halfway down. Now I'm all banged up, bleeding all over the place, possibly sprained ankle, hurting like hell- all over a couple of sandwiches, which I now realize I never got to eat. They got left behind the store.

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All this fucking pain and sweat just to be hungrier than I was 3 hours ago. Fuck this shit. Now I just need a nap, a long nap.

Almost just got killed trying to get a sandwich...

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So, I'm friggin' hungry as hell today. Hadn't eaten yet today. When you get hungry enough, your judgement lapses. So, I walked into a grocery store to do some "shopping".... only I dont have any money, so you know how this gonna go.

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I go in, and head to the deli section. They usually have those premade sandwiches, so I figure I'll try grabbing a couple. I grab them, slide them down my pants, and head for the exit, trying not to attract attention.

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I get out the store, and walk around the parking lot. As I'm in the back of the store, planning on eating right there, two store employees come out of a back door yelling at me about being a shoplifter. Don't know how they knew that, maybe someone saw me on camera, watched me walk out and around the store? I dont know... anyways, I get up and run the other wayand by now theres a police car coming. I assume its not a random cop, someone called about me being a shoplifter. So theres a cop car and 2 store employees chasing me behind the store.

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Behind the store was kind of a wooded area, so I crawled up the hill and ran into the woods. In my head I'm imagining the cop calling for dogs and helicopter backup like in the movies. I'm moving thru the woods, trying to put distance between the store and me but not knowing where I'm going or whats on the other side of the woods. I can hear the traffic on the highway to my right, so I'm moving towards the left, trying to get away from the road.

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After about 20 minutes in the woods, I come to a fucking cliff! An actual cliff area, maybe a 50 foot drop. I dont know if the cops are still behind me looking for me so my options are going back the way I came, or trying to climb down this cliff thing. I chose the cliff...

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Im not in great shape anymore. Hell, i usually barely have the energy to fart. Now im trying to climb down this rocky cliff thing to keep from going to jail. And of course I slip and fall... maybe 20 feet? About halfway down. Now I'm all banged up, bleeding, possibly sprained ankle, hurting like hell- all over a couple of sandwiches, which I now realize I never got to eat. They got left behind the store.

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All this fucking pain and sweat just to be hungrier than I was 3 hours ago. Fuck this shit.

They everywhere, and the worst thing is they are trying to prey on those of us who have nothing anyways. I mean, how you gonna try and steal from a homeless person?? If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true. No one is gonna pay you for doing anything on here. Im sorry to be the one to tell you this.

Y'all need to quit falling for it. No ones gonna pay you to do their bidding online. Its all a scam. If it sounds too good to be true, thats the sound of you getting fucked.