Boyfriend and I were coming out of a restaurant one afternoon, and a woman was standing outside soliciting passers-by.
She claimed she was employed as a nurse’s aide in Ohio, and had come to PA for a relatives funeral but didn’t have any money to get home or get a meal. She asked me if I could help her out and stated “anything would be appreciated” and that she would mail me a check once she got home.
Well, I wasn’t too sure of her story and just handed her $10, of course not expecting her to pay it back. She took it, but looked disappointed and asked if I could give her more!
Anyway, soon a guy in an Obama ‘08/Hope & Change t-shirt walked by and she hit him up. He just shrugged his shoulders and walked away.
I guess I was the only patsy.
This happened recently and it really made me mad - a well-dressed and well-fed looking woman comes in (I recognized her because she had been in several times before) and hands me a handwritten note saying that she was a deaf-mute and needed some money to buy food for her children and diapers for her baby.
I turned her away, because I know she gets money from somewhere & I was tired of being manipulated like that. Well, a little while later - a little girl, about 8 years old - comes in and hands me a note. This one says that her mommy is a deaf-mute and would I please help them out with a little money for food and diapers? That just killed me that she was using her children for something like that. I gave her a dollar because I felt sorry for her.
Some time later, I saw her walking up the street with 3 little children. Future parasites. I just shook my head in disgust.