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• Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For the couple months I knew him the mug with either in his hand or clipped to his bag.

  I didn’t see his dates and I didn’t ask, but he came by for dinner once and ate his portion from the mug.

  As far as I saw, it was a great conversation starter, he made a lot of friends and ate reasonably well.

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This would get old real quick.

    I was a smoker in a past life.

    Occasionally you encounter other smokers who are trying to cut down, or quitting, and limiting their intake by refusing to buy a pack of smokes and simply bumming smokes off the people they encounter.

    Sounds nice in principle but obviously this very quickly deteriorates into a parasitic arrangement.

    What I mean is, if I went to work every day and there was a guy there with a cup, obviously I’d happily give him whatever, but at any given lunch break if he was hungry he’d know he could search me out for a bite to eat.

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    • Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I thought it was interesting and uplifting to see people come together to support this guy in a fairly simple way. He just told people about his mug if they asked and didn’t belabor it from there. Even shared candy when he got it.

      I worked at a restaurant, where there’s a lot of food waste, so I was happy to help someone out while he found his footing. He didn’t come back on his own, I told him to see me when I’m working.

      It’s weird to spin that into a “parasitic” relationship.

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      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sure ok. I’ll readily acknowledge that I’m a pretty weird guy.

        I probably also have a lot of left over baggage from being a substance abuser of minimal socio-economic means. That is to say I just like to pay for my own stuff, and there’s a short list of people I might be very generous with but beyond that I’m not generous (with money) at all.

        I guess it’s a bit different if the guy is interacting with a lot of different people every day.

        I had envisaged a situation where I work in some kind of cubicle hell scape and every lunch time I need to sneak past old-mates cube in case he sees me and tries to swindle me into contributing some crisps or something.

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