Usually on Saturdays I go down to the neighborhood Bellacino’s for lunch. My usual intake involves a small sausage pizza and garlic breadsticks with sauce. While I am waiting on my meal this guy comes in an passes around these small pieces of paper to customers in the restaurant. On the paper say “Hello, I’m deaf. Please buy my pamplet of deaf information,” or something to that effect. The first time he came in I read his pamplet and felt guilty afterwards for not giving him any money. The 2nd time on a different day I was just flat out annoyed at him. I refused his pamplet, strongly considered writing him a note telling him to get a job; and thought about telling Bellacino’s management.
It’s not that I don’t have compassion. I just don’t think it is appropriate for people to come in and beg for money in an eating establishment. If he had hit me up on the street, I wouldn’t have had much of a problem with it. However when I am trying to have some peace and quiet, it is very annoying (especially multiple times) at the same place.
Who is to say this guy isn’t deaf? What if he is a scam artist? Besides I think in this day and age, deaf people can get jobs and earn a living without having to beg multiple times at the local Bellacino’s.