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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 170983" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>a couple years ago I was at the VA medical center in parking lot, and a man came up to me, wanted to know if I had a couple $$. Well, I truly did not have any cash, I hardly ever carry cash. He said he was hungry. I DID have a lunch I had packed for myself for this trip to the medical center, and I had not yet eaten it, so I offered it to him. OMG, he had no idea what was in my lunch- but he refused it, and got very angry. He looked at my car, began pounding on it with his fists. He said anyone who could afford the car HAD to have money. Um, yeah, I did afford the car, becuz that car was my durango, which I needed to carry my mobility scooter and dhs wheelchair and our 3 kids. He then stood behind my car and would not let me back out of the parking space to leave. </p><p>He was quite livid at me. I got very scared. Ironically the week before, me and husband had stopped at our fav place for coffee and a young man and woman were sitting there, the woman crying. The man left. The woman asked us for a cig. we gave her a full pack.....she kept crying, sitting alone, and the place we were at told her she had to leave. She had not ordered anything. She could not stay. Turns out the man had told her to meet him there, but then left her there. She said he had been going to take her to the homeless shelter for that nite, but that nite the shelter was 2 towns away (they move it nitely thruout our county, I amnot sure why, how they think people can get so far away with no public transportation here) husband had been to bank for something before he came for coffee (he met me there) so he gave her $20 and then he gave her a ride. (I followed in my car) </p><p></p><p>It can be so hard to KNOW when to offer what......hard to know if you are being scammed....BUT when someone tells me they are hungry and they refuse to accept food I might offer, I can not believe they are as hungry as they are trying to say they are. I am glad the person you helped was grateful and glad. It sure can make one feel good inside to know they helped someone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 170983, member: 1697"] a couple years ago I was at the VA medical center in parking lot, and a man came up to me, wanted to know if I had a couple $$. Well, I truly did not have any cash, I hardly ever carry cash. He said he was hungry. I DID have a lunch I had packed for myself for this trip to the medical center, and I had not yet eaten it, so I offered it to him. OMG, he had no idea what was in my lunch- but he refused it, and got very angry. He looked at my car, began pounding on it with his fists. He said anyone who could afford the car HAD to have money. Um, yeah, I did afford the car, becuz that car was my durango, which I needed to carry my mobility scooter and dhs wheelchair and our 3 kids. He then stood behind my car and would not let me back out of the parking space to leave. He was quite livid at me. I got very scared. Ironically the week before, me and husband had stopped at our fav place for coffee and a young man and woman were sitting there, the woman crying. The man left. The woman asked us for a cig. we gave her a full pack.....she kept crying, sitting alone, and the place we were at told her she had to leave. She had not ordered anything. She could not stay. Turns out the man had told her to meet him there, but then left her there. She said he had been going to take her to the homeless shelter for that nite, but that nite the shelter was 2 towns away (they move it nitely thruout our county, I amnot sure why, how they think people can get so far away with no public transportation here) husband had been to bank for something before he came for coffee (he met me there) so he gave her $20 and then he gave her a ride. (I followed in my car) It can be so hard to KNOW when to offer what......hard to know if you are being scammed....BUT when someone tells me they are hungry and they refuse to accept food I might offer, I can not believe they are as hungry as they are trying to say they are. I am glad the person you helped was grateful and glad. It sure can make one feel good inside to know they helped someone. [/QUOTE]
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