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Originally Posted by ironman
This one time, an old lady knocked at my home, she was in tears and hysterical, she said she had just been robbed and had no money to return home, etc, etc, etc... Long story short, my girlfriend and me ended giving her a complete lunch in our table and like $40.00, just to find her later in the local bar totally wasted. I really can't remember of another time in my life when i felt more dumb and more eager to hit a woman thaa that moment. From then on, i never give money to beggars. I try to have candies in my car all the time in case a little kid asks for money while in traffic, but that's it, if i wan't to do charity, i do it through the church or well recognized organisations.
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Oh that just sparked a memory, the first apartment my wife and i had was a dump, just a starter while i was in school and she worked. first week we live there, we get a knock on the door, there is a small kid standing at the door holding a note, he hands it to me , and its from the person two doors down, wanting to know if she can borrow 20 bucks until she gets paid. my wife instantly said no, but i did not know what to say, the poor kid, i just felt for him, so wrote back on the note that we did not have the money, but if needed anything like milk or food that we had something if she needed it. never got a reply, so the money was not for food.
two days later our car got keyed 360 degrees around. very deep as well......lovely. i know it had to her as our car was parked in the corner of the lot and nobody would be just walking by. we moved about the next month, and i got a night job to get us into some place much much better.