Choosing beggar story video maker
Someone gets something free, and then writes a list of demands. The ChatsRat story maker turns your own choosing beggar story into a 9:16 video with a title card, a narrator and big word-by-word captions, and splits a long one into parts. Start from one of our five original choosing beggar stories or paste your own.
Fiction. Original story. Made with ChatsRat.
The story in this video
I offered my old bike for free and he asked me to repaint it
I put my old bike online for free, with a photo. It worked, it was clean, and it just needed someone who wanted it. A man replied within a minute. He asked if the frame came in blue, because the picture looked "slightly grey". I said it was grey. He asked if I could repaint it. I said no, but he was welcome to paint it himself. He asked if I could pay for the paint. I wrote that the offer was a free bike, and not a bike service. He sent a long message saying free things should be perfect. I replied that I had a neighbour who liked grey, and by that evening she was riding it home, smiling, with a bell she added herself.
About 50 seconds read aloud. An original story written for ChatsRat, with invented people and no real places or businesses.
How a choosing beggar story works
A choosing beggar story is about a person who is given something for free and then negotiates, complains or demands more.
- The beats
- Something is offered for free, the taker adds a demand, then another, and the item quietly goes to a person who simply says thank you.
- What makes it work
- A very ordinary object (a bike, a curtain, a bookcase) and a list of demands that gets a little more absurd with every line.
- What to leave out
- Naming a marketplace, a shop or a street, and making the taker a real, findable person. Keep the item and the people invented.
Five original choosing beggar stories to start from
- I offered my old bike for free and he asked me to repaint it (127 words)
- I gave away a full set of curtains and got a review (124 words)
- He took my free bookcase and then asked me to build it (130 words)
- I donated my wedding dress and the buyer wanted a refund on a free item (128 words)
- Free firewood, and a complaint about the colour (128 words)
All five are fiction we wrote for ChatsRat. None is copied or reworded from any post anywhere. Change any of them, or paste your own.
Four twists for a choosing beggar story
The reveal
Then I found out the person who had complained was the same one who had taken a free item from me the year before, and who had sold it for a very good price.
The update
The item went to a much happier home. I got three thank you messages, a plant and a tin of biscuits. Free things go where they are wanted.
Karma
A week later, I saw the same person asking another neighbour for something free, with a list. The neighbour sent them a polite link to a charity shop and a wave.
The receipts
I kept the messages, in order, with the times. When I read them back to a friend over tea, we both laughed, and then I deleted the thread and felt lighter.
From story to video
- Pick the choosing beggar trope in the story maker, or paste your own story. Edit the title card, the username and the text.
- Choose a narrator, a second voice for comments, and a moving background.
- Press Make my video. A long story is split into Part 1, Part 2 and more, each with its own TikTok, Reels and Shorts caption.