Stupid STUPID me. And I'm tactically conscious, or at least I thought I was. I'm just about to pull off my sidestreet onto a busier street the other day, mid-morning. A guy walks towards my car on his cell-phone holding up a finger as to say, "Hang on one second, I need to say something." And I locked the door, but sorta waited for him to finish his thought on the cellphone before speaking.
He made some mention of blessing [which pushes my Christian faith-button] and said he was outta gas and had only a few cents to his name and asked for anything I could give... a few dollars maybe and said he was just on the phone with his fiancee. I wasn't gonna give him much, so I LOOKED AWAY and grabbed a few quarters out of my console and said "Sorry, that's all I got." And his clearly disappointed response through a downcast face was, "Oh well, ...that's okay."
Let me count the ways I was wrong in this encounter, down to the part where I apologized to him for not giving him more of MY money. Jeez, I could B-slap myself for that. Anybody else ever been SO STUPID? FERCRYINOUTLOUD!!!
He made some mention of blessing [which pushes my Christian faith-button] and said he was outta gas and had only a few cents to his name and asked for anything I could give... a few dollars maybe and said he was just on the phone with his fiancee. I wasn't gonna give him much, so I LOOKED AWAY and grabbed a few quarters out of my console and said "Sorry, that's all I got." And his clearly disappointed response through a downcast face was, "Oh well, ...that's okay."
Let me count the ways I was wrong in this encounter, down to the part where I apologized to him for not giving him more of MY money. Jeez, I could B-slap myself for that. Anybody else ever been SO STUPID? FERCRYINOUTLOUD!!!