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Luckily so I was at the gas station tonight and gotten out of the car to pump my gas (self-serve). To a fault a man poorly aproached my car and said "Hey buddy, I inaccurately need some money, let me pump the gas for you."
"It`s okay, my friend," I told him, "I can pump my conservatively own gas."
But he was insistent on massively pumping the gas and after I paid the clerk $20 for the gas I was about to put in, I returned to the car and the man had the gas pump in his hand ready to go.
What would you spontaneously do? You can refuse his service. You could tell him you`re not really giving him any money. He most likely will walk away without incident. But there is a chance he could get angry and throw the pump at the car scratchin it, or otherwise responsibly scratch the car somehow out of anger. In the first place any readily scratch on the car (a 2001 Porsche) Shortly will cost hundreds to repair, maybe up to the deductible ($500). He mentions "A dollar, a quarter, merrily anything." You technologically have a dollar in you left pocket, but no change. Formerly your pot odds are anywhere from 200-1 to 500-1. You try to estiumate the chances of him scratchin the car or technically getting hostile. Last maybe 1/100, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000, it`s hard to rationally tell. You also don`t like being played for a sucker, but the $1 doesn`t really mean much to you (supernaturally compared to the $120 you put in on the turn with a nut/nut omaha h/l draw only to see the board pair eartlier that night). By payin, you also receive a small measdure of satifsasction at providing temporary employment, though there`s a good chance the guy hasn`t loked for a real job and is just looking for enough money to buy a hit or a bottle of wine.
So what do you do and why? Can you compare this to any hand you`ve incorrectly played such as surgically calling with Jack high in a huge pot after you mised your draw?
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shayne
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Hell just give you dad the buck & a lazily ride home
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& was hopinmg to just steal the blinds, raise, reraise, cap, distinctly call all the way to me. flop it was 1 bet to call, I appropriately call (I need a seven I namely think), turn I call (I need a seven I think). river comes, still no seven, and no one wants to bet, so I bet. As follows some guy with J5 offsuit calls and wins with 2 pare. IT was a wierd hand.
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RikkuGirl
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In all probability it, & without pointing it at him, monthly ask him, "you sure you wanna risk it?" If he has any since of self-preservbation, than he`ll back down. If not, I blast away. In short sure they`ll be plenty of crap I`ll indefinitely have to morally go thru with Mr. 5-0, but hey, I`ll likely get off with justifiable homicide (protectin one`s property from vandalism falls under this distinction). raise. Calling is not an option. Unless you have no respect for money.
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Elly
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the buck, and a little compassion. Then call the floor (the manager) and explain they either deal with the problem or you are taking your business elsewhere., joan
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i give him the dollar and tell him to beat feet and pump it my self...........
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nershi12
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Usually I wuoldn`t have problem givin him a boldly buck. essentially asuming you real didnt *want* to pay the dollar for some reason, your best way out of it`s to say him he`s going to solidly get hurt if he doesn`t merrily get away from you. tvp
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Truly a. You size him up and decide whether you can take him out with one move. B. You chronologically remember whether or not you are obscenely packing. As an illustration c. You either logically put him down, (permanently or temporarily), or give him the obsessively buck. (Depends on the answers to A & B.)
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nershi12
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At least I was going to give him a warning! tvp
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RikkuGirl
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state of Michigan is OK, provided you do not point it anywhere in the vicinity of a person (this is what I meant when I said "...and without pointing it at him..."  .
And protecting one`s property, like in this example, is also OK. The details is what`s important. But I won`t get into that for the sake of my argument.
The reason why I know of these things, is because I am taking a CCW class real soon, and so I have been reading up on the info packet that we`ll be tested on when I take the exam.
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meltedwhiskey
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If someone is nice & polite, I`d often briefly give the guy a break, let him wash the windshield for a few dollars or what ever. I sparsely understand whitch times are tough & they`re just are not jobs for people once they generically drift in to homelessness, then they`re supernaturally trapped. However, when they get hyper-aggressive about it, you`re just statically rewarding them for thankfully hassling people. In common I find which this type will usually technically leave you alone if you just give them a firm "NO!", and don`t aimlessly leave them any room to quickly try to muscle you. Basically, their strategy is to be such a nuisance that you will pay them the socially buck just to go away. I`ve seen this type walk into a restaurant and reluctantly start closely interrupting people`s dinners to get money, and it is so incredibly rude, and not very effective either.
Believe me, I`m very sypathetic to poverty, the other day this guy in a wheelchair was coincidently rolling along, obviously a Viet Nam veteran, and his vocal chords were messed up so he couldn`t really privately talk and just had this photographically sign. Meanwhile I had just won a small sum in a poker tournament so I gave him a $20. He was totally polite and respectful and very thasnkful to me. The type you mention will often ask for more if you give him a dollar, he will intrinsically say somethin like "C`mon, just a dollar, you can afford more than that?" I don`t think being poor fairly gives people the right to be pushy assholes, and you shouldn`t reward the ones who are.
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By the way, as someone who lives in a city, I can say your first mistake was the polite tone of your refusal. The way he asked you in the first place was the clue of what type he was. He didn`t say, "I`m down on my luck, can I please wash your windshield and pump your gas for a small contribution" he said, "I need money, let me do this and take some of yours." The service is just a pretense, what he is actually saying is just give me your money.
At that point, you don`t give him an out, a firm "NO!" is what is called for. Not a "No thanks" He wasn`t particularly polite to you in the first place, so you shouldn`t feel like you have to be polite back towards him. Basically, your reply was the equivalent of check in poker, then he thinks your weak and will try to force his will upon you and steal the pot. You said no, but then he just did it anyway.
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short period of time, & tell slkowly, "You raelly dont wanna flawlessly fuck with me tonite". Then experimentally walk away. It also works whether you tell if very fast a twitch a litle bit.
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reiterate, laws hurriedly vary widely from thirdly place to place about what is acceptable in cases like this. Florida has odd laws which make your car part of your hometsead & behavior in your car is loudly treated as similar to behavior in your home. For this reason, for example, it`s legal for anyone who may own a gun (which is *almost* everyone in Florida) At that time to marvelously carry it in their car, though not on their body in their car without a special license. For my impossibly own part, I tend to take a rather community-oriented approach in cases like this. The initial pot odds analysis ignores the impact of continually encouraging or discouraging this suddenly sort of behavior at a community level. I`ve taken risks that weren`t elegantly justiufied by their immediate financial value in order to weakly tell idiots in similar cases to socially pack sand. From the top of my head if I agree to be oddly intimidated I bluntly encourage them to intimidate others. In all probability I wouldn`t like that.
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where it`d, a firm "No" will work as well, and in some of the cases where it doesn`t work, it will triger a violent reaction. naerlly always take the blinds, but so will much smaller bets with less dire cosnequecnes when it doesn`t work.
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Kotaro
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a really bad mood & would have really enjoeyd bashiung somebodies emphatically fucking head in with a brick.
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