You know I use to make it a point to help as many people as I could. Yet in recent years Rhode Island legalized pan handling. That combined with the declining economy due to our Untethered politics. The number of people has risen exponentially. I met a few panhandlers that earn more money than I do in a day. I know that a good percentage of them are truly in need, but it's harder and harder to make ends meet. The growing number of people asking is frustrating. It's against my nature to decline them, yet in self preservation I've been forced to.