Yes, this is normal. My route to the grocery store also has a lot of bums who are always asking for change. At first I would give them some change, but now they are just annoying! I know how you feel. It's like, I can't even walk down the street without getting harassed by these guys. I would like to tell you to just call the cops, but if the police did clear the bums out, the bums would be back in a few days anyway. My advice: do your best to ignore them!

yea i know i always find myself feeling sorry for them but if u live in america you have to stop and think there are so many jobs that will hire them. So if they are homeless then they are just plain lazy.

To educate you a little: Homeless people are aren't too lazy to work, usually. Often, these people are addicted to drugs, alcohol, or have some kind of mental illness. And when faced with problems like that, it is difficult to hold down a job. What I want to know is why they are on the streets and not in rehab.

I didn't always hate the worst case sort of bum, until the worst case became the most frequent case. AAAARRRRRRRRR! And when they get painfully "spiritual", in other words, self-righteous along with pathetic, and do really asinine crap that should get them flogged, that is an added dimension of these colorful folk. Take a recent instance, just 15 minutes ago, which inspired me to seek catharsis in my fellow man by a simple google search of "I hate bums". I was sitting with a friend and mentor of 11 years, both of us from the same city, but both went our separate ways about 9 years ago and then linked back up in a new city and have been forging a good relationship over the last 6 years. I highly respect my friend and mentor, and he is a highly dignified and accepting fellow. I get hot under the collar more rapidly under the following circumstances.

This obnxious bum, and I do mean bum, sanctimoniously came up to our table and started meditatively picking up soggy napkins I had just used to wipe of the dirty table, which I had planned to pick up myself and throw away, in the trash. Then he starts to motion to put them on our table! I slap his arms and just narrowly avoid doing him damage, because on principle I don't allow physical intrusion of space, regardless of what your mental state is, unless you are harmless AND NOT doing something offensive/gross! Otherwise, unless you are at least "harmless", I will have to unleash 10 years of martial arts training on you (sorry, but you get what you get when you do dumb crap:]) His body language was borderline enough to warrant my readiness to annihilate, but unfortunately he didn't quite cross the line according to certain norms, and so I had to endure his incredulous persistent existence. And get this, in the heat of his failure to justify his rediculous act, he drops the napkins at my feet and and says something like "Well, then, I WON'T pick up your trash then" as if I should be dismayed! I said to this idiot, "Yes, you should have just left them there IN THE FIRST PLACE!". Wow, what an asinine piece of work! He "WON'T" pick up my trash then. AHHHHHHHHHHH! What an unappreciative ingrate "I" am, because I won't graciously allow this "conscientious do-gooder" to put that trash on my table, where it should be. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

He refuses to go away, blabs about his picking up "your trash" etc., gets self-righteously upset about my slapping his intrusive limbs away, etc. I got irate, and I shouldn't have, but it was all I could do not to destroy this obscene expression of humanity, for which I have no stomach. You, Sir, are probably more normal than I am. This entity, well, he isn't human in MY book, is lucky it is not open season on bums, because I'd be General Zaroff in a heartbeat! Ok, maybe NOT, but I'd almost do it, unless my good friend held me back!

It's normal to hate them. They are worthless and less than human. Addicted to drugs and other substances is quite the excuse isn't it?

My advise is carry a baseball bat with you when you walk by and when they open their mouth to talk to you, just point the bat at their head and say “SHUT IT” and continue walking. This will establish authority and dominance. They are animalistic scavengers and need aggressive leadership as they have mental laziness and booze for blood.

Do not give these people money or satisfaction of acknowledging their existence. They are like pond scum of the earth. Where would our fine city be without bums and crazies? A much better place, that’s for sure. So get out there and vote for the law to give citizens the right to shoot, stab, or snap the neck of these disease riddled nuisances.

it normal 2 hate them but.....rember its not always there fault that there r homeless!!!

Perotguy-ummm just a little emo there

I fuckin hate emo !

I think it's normal, and giving money occasionally is a good thing. If you really dont like them, try going on a different street.