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amother
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:00 pm
My cleaning lady is here.
I was unloading my kids and a black teenager came by and asked me if he could help me with anything for $5. I told him he could crush my cardboard and fold it. He did it and I paid him.
Do you think I did something dangerous?
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Aylat
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:02 pm
No, why? Are you asking because he is black?
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amother
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:04 pm
I'm just nervous he'll think I'm rich and it will draw attention from the gangs that live in the government sponsor housing near me
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Aylat
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:08 pm
amother [ OP ] wrote: | I'm just nervous he'll think I'm rich and it will draw attention from the gangs that live in the government sponsor housing near me |
Interesting, because my take was: good for him, taking the initiative and doing some work to earn money. But obviously I don't know your neighborhood and any issues.
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FranticFrummie
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:11 pm
There are white gangs, you know. Color is not an indicator of anything.
I remember one time I found a free piano on Craigslist. The person getting rid of it helped us get it into the truck, but when we got home, we couldn't move it by ourselves!
Just then I saw a big strong guy walking past us, minding his own business. I went up to him and offered him $25 to help us get the piano up the stairs and into the house.
Yep. I let a Black stranger into my house - and lived to tell the tale.
He probably went home to laugh with his family, about how he made quick money off of some white lady who didn't plan ahead.
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amother
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:15 pm
Aylat wrote: | Interesting, because my take was: good for him, taking the initiative and doing some work to earn money. But obviously I don't know your neighborhood and any issues. |
if he's trying to earn an honest buck I should help. But I don't want to draw a target on my house. And we do have gangs from there
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OutATowner
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:20 pm
I dont think a busy mother paying $5 to crush cardboard would become a target as someone rich. It sounds like he was looking to make an honest buck. (Especially if you live in a frum neighborhood and people pick up on the Pesach busy season.)
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Aylat
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:22 pm
amother [ OP ] wrote: | if he's trying to earn an honest buck I should help. But I don't want to draw a target on my house. And we do have gangs from there |
I wouldn't think paying a teen $5 marks you at as rich enough to be worth breaking and entering, or even mugging. You have what everyone has, a credit card and a smartphone. You did nothing to indicate that you own anything extra exciting. (In the worst-case scenario that you were being watched or the teen himself is a gang member.)
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Amarante
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:24 pm
I don't think paying him $5 for doing a chore is going to make you a target because he thinks you have the Crown Jewels hidden :-).
As others have written, he seems like an enterprising kid - not very different from kids who take a lawnmower around and ask to mow lawns. To digress, there was a horrible incident of a young boy who had a lawn mowing business (he was about 13) and he was mowing a woman's lawn who had hired him and since there wasn't a fence, he was mowing a strip of lawn that belonged to the neighbors who called the POLICE instead of doing the sane thing which would be either to thank him/hire him or tell him politely that he was over the neighbor's boundaries. Luckily from the publicity, his business boomed and he actually got enough donations to fund a college scholarship for him.
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causemommysaid
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:31 pm
I always see teens selling drinks on street corners in the summer. I doubt buying one marks you as a target.
I think it was fine.
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causemommysaid
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Tue, Apr 16 2019, 3:32 pm
Amarante wrote: | I don't think paying him $5 for doing a chore is going to make you a target because he thinks you have the Crown Jewels hidden :-).
As others have written, he seems like an enterprising kid - not very different from kids who take a lawnmower around and ask to mow lawns. To digress, there was a horrible incident of a young boy who had a lawn mowing business (he was about 13) and he was mowing a woman's lawn who had hired him and since there wasn't a fence, he was mowing a strip of lawn that belonged to the neighbors who called the POLICE instead of doing the sane thing which would be either to thank him/hire him or tell him politely that he was over the neighbor's boundaries. Luckily from the publicity, his business boomed and he actually got enough donations to fund a college scholarship for him. |
Ugg I remember that story. People are so crazy.
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