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bluejays · 02-01-2007, 10:16 AM

I've given homeless people who said they needed money badly (they didn't appear to be homeless), then while I'm watching them, move on right over to the LCBO. That actually happened once. Another time a few years back I park my call in Wal-Mart and this lady with a complete fur coat comes rushing up to my car as I'm about to park (almost hitting her), and so I park and open my door to yell what the fack she is doing and she starts crying...I ask her what's wrong, she says her car ran out of gas and she has no money, credit cards or anything like that. She asks me if I can spare $2, so I say no sweat...look into my wallet, and all I have is a $5 bill. I'm 18 at the time making minimum wage, but this lady needed help, so I give it to her. I found it odd though (b/c of the fur coat), so I decided to follow her...she goes to Wal-Mart and straight to the cosmetics section. I was steamed, but didn't do anything...just a bit disappointed. Another story...lost wallet at the ACC while I was working there...gave it to a coworker who was going on break to turn it in, he steals it, I come in next day, and next thing I know is cops are questioning me. I explain to them what I did, the bum coworker says I took half the money, and the ACC fires me (even though the police said they thought I was telling the truth). So that's some stuff where I just did the right thing, but it never helped. Good to see that you did the right thing (especially with the old guy, society just seems to ignore old people).

02-01-2007, 10:16 AM	#5
bluejays Franchise Player Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Toronto, Ontario Exp:	I've given homeless people who said they needed money badly (they didn't appear to be homeless), then while I'm watching them, move on right over to the LCBO. That actually happened once. Another time a few years back I park my call in Wal-Mart and this lady with a complete fur coat comes rushing up to my car as I'm about to park (almost hitting her), and so I park and open my door to yell what the fack she is doing and she starts crying...I ask her what's wrong, she says her car ran out of gas and she has no money, credit cards or anything like that. She asks me if I can spare $2, so I say no sweat...look into my wallet, and all I have is a $5 bill. I'm 18 at the time making minimum wage, but this lady needed help, so I give it to her. I found it odd though (b/c of the fur coat), so I decided to follow her...she goes to Wal-Mart and straight to the cosmetics section. I was steamed, but didn't do anything...just a bit disappointed. Another story...lost wallet at the ACC while I was working there...gave it to a coworker who was going on break to turn it in, he steals it, I come in next day, and next thing I know is cops are questioning me. I explain to them what I did, the bum coworker says I took half the money, and the ACC fires me (even though the police said they thought I was telling the truth). So that's some stuff where I just did the right thing, but it never helped. Good to see that you did the right thing (especially with the old guy, society just seems to ignore old people).