[NativeSon]

Turns out she was out in the intersection the next night

It's a scammer's take on begging. Just last week a guy approached me at 4th and South, Philly. He was opening his wallet as explaining that he needed "$5.80" for a ticked for the train to get home.

Do I look like a tourist? I thought.

I politely turned him away and later on saw him a few blocks away, pulling the same theatrics on a couple.

[PUGACHEV]

Many years ago in D.C. when I was a student without loans or financial and and living on M&C five nights a week, I was approached by a beggar who asked me for help. “I'm a student with no money, and you make more money than I do, just standing on this corner begging all day”, I told him. He looked genuinely puzzled by the evident truth of that and did not know what to say.