Worst Feeling Ever?

[Canelek]

Originally Posted by Aeaolena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Once gave a guy $30 who came up to me in a Chipotle parking lot at 8pm saying his wallet was stolen out of his car and he was just trying to buy some gas to get home to his wife, the police wouldn't help him. He had a military ID on him and a receipt from a local hospital where he said he was in town getting scans.

Two weeks later, the same guy comes up to my car, mid-afternoon, as I was about to pull out of a Target parking lot. Showed same Military ID and the same receipt (that had the date badly changed with a pen). Same exact story. Needed gas to get home to (insert town 40 minutes away).

Asking him if he remembered me and depressingly informing him I gave him $30 two weeks ago.. yeah, that feeling sucked.

Solid scam, but an old one. Bonus points for tears during the story.

I'm sympathetic to folks down on their luck, but when you have gaggles of street kids loitering on the streets of downtown when the weather turns nice, it toughens the heart a bit. It is sad how that brand of vagrant tourism bullshit causes folks to view folks with legit problems on the same level as street urchins.