02-24-2012, 01:22 PM
(02-16-2012, 04:38 PM)Ruth Wrote: Imagine you are grocery shopping. It's mid morning - around 10 am - on a Thursday and as usual you are smiling and greeting the people you see.
You are standing in the aisle, reading the label on a package when a young woman approaches you and asks, "Excuse me, ma'am. Do you think that a homeless person is a bum?" You discuss your thoughts with her, then she proceeds to tell you her story: that she, her husband (who suffers from Chron's disease) and their two children lost their home for lack of income; that they have been staying in the local Motel 6 for the past two weeks; that she has found a job and will get her first paycheck tomorrow; but that they don't have enough money to pay for their room tonight and will have to vacate if she can't pay by noon. Of course she is asking if you could find it in your hear to help her out.
What would you do?
Note. This happened to me - it is not a hypothetical situation.
Love and light!
Unfortunately, its likely a scam. I heard almost the exact story from a woman. She wanted me to follow her back to the motel and pay for another night for her and her family. It sounded fishy...and I told her No.
As soon I got back to work, I googled it and found out that it was an ongoing scam in certain parts of town that had resulted in a couple of people getting mugged as they followed the "woman" back to her hotel.
I was getting gas right in the middle of that area.
Richard