Well, I hated depending on a Tumwater cop to come and be nice, but I figure maybe they only abuse teenagers.
Yah... knowing them they'd probly just curb-60 the poor guy, which was about the last thing he needed. :-)
But it is true that he has the advantage of not being a teenager in Tumwater.
I'm the sort of personality that often gets taken advantage of by persons begging for help. I always want to think that I'm helping somebody that really needs it. But then I usually find out later that I've been scammed by somebody playing the game of emotions. There's been several times I've given a twenty to somebody on the corner with a really convincing sign explaining how horrible life has been to them.
But then again, I'm the guy that picks up a well-dressed couple in the rain in downtown Seattle, stranded late at night after the buses quit... only to find out that he's a pimp and she's a hooker... and don't I want to party with them? [ack... no... I don't...] Drop them off and find out the next morning that they'd stolen about $2K worth of camera gear from my bag in the back seat.
[sigh] No good deed ever goes unpunished.