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Originally Posted by little_tippler
Tully, I hate those beggars who pretend they're helping you park! Here in Lisbon they have the nerve to try and do it in parking meter areas. As if it wasn't enough to put coins in the machine, Now I have to give it some guy who has decided that this is his territory. They never helped me park....did I say I need help? I park fine on my own thanks.
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I can see both sides of it. I park fine on my own too. And no I wouldn't pay for a metered spot. But there's most certainly not enough work to go around here and I just don't think they'd do it if they could find other work. Most people I know give them a peso, which right now is about .07 US. If these guys clear $10 a day I'd be shocked. I also think they really need it, that it's going to a home and a family. If I thought it was going for booze or drugs I wouldn't give them anything.
This area is different then any other I've lived. The house next door to me probably has 15 rooms, beach front and huge pool. It's not uncommon to see $200K cars parked there. Directly across the street is a tar paper shack with no running water, phone or elec. The lady of the tar paper house walks every morning over to the beach front mansion. She spends all day there, I assume cleaning and cooking. Her kids never play with the kids in the other house.
This is the land of have and have not. Those that have, really have. Those that don't really don't.