Great thread.
I love stories like this. Unfortunately, like this one they don't always have the best ending.
I was going to work one day and before hand was up at Dalhousie Roger's video. I came out and was heading over to the safeway. Right next to the Roger's is a liqour store. As I was walking past a homeless guy stopped me and asked if I could spare any change as he was hungry. I said "sorry, all I have is interac, if you wait 5 minutes I'll talk to you once I come out of Safeway." I wasn't making much at the time, but obviously more than this guy and felt good I was going to buy him a sandwich (instead of giving him money outside the liqour store).
So I go in, get what I need and get the guy a pre-made safeway sandwich. I come out with a big smile, greet the guy and hand him the sandwich. He takes it, looks at me with a disgusted look and says "does this have ham on it? I don't like ham". I should note that this guy was white as white can be (so unless he converted at some point, I don't think he was muslim). I looked at him shocked for a minute and said "are you serious?". He said "could I just have some money instead?" I grabbed the sandwich from his hands, walk right back into the safeway to customer service - told her the story and she gave me my money back for the sandwich.
I then proceeded to walk out of the safeway right past the guy shaking my head at him. He looked completely oblivious as to why I was upset.
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