Have you ever gone up to a stranger and asked them to give you something for free? It’s about 1000x more socially awkward than anything the other person could do. So, the other person doesn’t need to stress, at all.
Whether they give you something once, or they give you more than one thing, or they don’t give you anything, it is a trivial thing compared to asking. My advice is just do what you want to do, and if you think about it and change your mind later, then, just do the other thing.
One time, somebody came up to me on the street and asked me for money, and I said, “sorry,” and he got super pissed off at me. He said something like, “You can shove your ‘sorry’.” I assume he wasn’t used to begging, and was ready for people to either give him money or ignore him, but he wasn’t ready for the awkwardness of somebody speaking to him to refuse. Begging is super awkward.
Have you ever gone up to a stranger and asked them to give you something for free? It’s about 1000x more socially awkward than anything the other person could do. So, the other person doesn’t need to stress, at all.
Whether they give you something once, or they give you more than one thing, or they don’t give you anything, it is a trivial thing compared to asking. My advice is just do what you want to do, and if you think about it and change your mind later, then, just do the other thing.
One time, somebody came up to me on the street and asked me for money, and I said, “sorry,” and he got super pissed off at me. He said something like, “You can shove your ‘sorry’.” I assume he wasn’t used to begging, and was ready for people to either give him money or ignore him, but he wasn’t ready for the awkwardness of somebody speaking to him to refuse. Begging is super awkward.