Question about the homeless

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

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There is a homeless man in the nearest 'city' to us.  We see him walking everywhere, carrying all his STUFF, and he looks so heavy.  You can tell that his life is heavy.

We have always said that if we want to get him food, or some reloadable gc's to some of the fast food places in town.  The other night, we stopped at Burger King, and he was in there.  He sat down beside someone he seemed to know, and he got a coffee, and then later on he got food (I promise I wasn't staring.  I didn't even tell H he was over there until we left because I couldn't think of how do it without hissing "OMG THUR HE IS LET'S BUY HIM FOOD".)
I don't know if he bought the food or if the employees give it to him.  They didn't act like anything unusual was happening.
That was a night that it was 11F outside.  H still wants to give him food, but now that I have seen him eating and think that restaurants comp him (we know the manager, I'm going to ask her), maybe he'd rather have warm clothes instead.  But I don't know the sizes, so maybe a gc to Walmart?

BUT.  How do we approach?  H is terrified that we're going to embarrass him.  Will it embarrass him?

PS - There are no shelters in the area, just one for abused women/children.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

That is an AHMAHZING idea, AutumnRose25.

[SKP82]

Do you ever see him panhandling? If so, you could give him a gift card then.

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I second what autumn said.

[karmasabiotch]

It's Christmas. I think it ok to give a known homeless man a warm blanket and some gift cards.

Are you sure you can trust the manager to give him the gift card?

I think maybe going directly to the source could be better.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Dec 17, 2013 13:00:45 GMT -5 karmasabiotch said:

It's Christmas. I think it ok to give a known homeless man a warm blanket and some gift cards.

Are you sure you can trust the manager to give him the gift card?

I think maybe going directly to the source could be better.

I don't have an issue with that at all.  We've vacationed with her.  

[whiskeyandwine]

I think you could get him warm clothes/any gift you want and give it to him the next time you happen upon him.  And he probably won't many (any?) holiday gifts so I think it would be ok to wrap one up and give it to him when you see it.

Standing there and waiting for him to open it? Now THAT would be awkward!