People Asking For Money

[meridannight]

yeah i've had that happen to me. i don't mean beggars standing aside the street, i mean someone approaching me personally, telling me some story and asking for money. there's been a lot less of that past year, but yeah, i know the thing.

i usually give it if it's a guy asking. i'm sexist like that. i remember once it was this guy maybe a couple of years younger than me who approached me and told me that he needed money for gas, he added some personal life details. it was all some story and i wondered about its truthfulness. but he was asking for a 1 Euro....you can't get anything for that, not food, nothing. i gave him all the change i had in my pocket which was 3-4 Euros maybe. it doesn't kill me. he must have had a reason asking a complete stranger, whatever it was. you don't just get up and do that if everything's okay in your life. people have friends and family to ask loose change from.

girls have asked me money a couple of times too, from what i remember. but i didn't give it, although i had change in my pocket. it was the same, i need money for a bus back home that is 200 km away, or something like that. i don't know if any of these were true stories or just something they come up with to make the act of asking money from a stranger look more okay, or acceptable; or get money more easily.

anyway yeah, i give it when approached like that, but only to guys.