Nasty Lady
Jan. 10th, 2010 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheAs we went into the supermarket today we passed a man sitting on a cardboard box on the ice, looking cold and dirty, with a blanket over his knees, begging. I got the kids into the warm and said "The first thing we do is we give that man some money." A woman popped up behind me and said "You shouldn't, he's smoking, if he can afford to smoke -"
I don't know what else she said because I got angry. I babbled something about knowing what it's like out there, and that people DIE of being poor and homeless. She went away. I gave the man some money. He was pathetically grateful.
And every time I saw her as we went around the shop I was a little bit frightened.
Who can look at a homeless person in this weather and not have the slightest bit of compassion? Who?
I don't know what else she said because I got angry. I babbled something about knowing what it's like out there, and that people DIE of being poor and homeless. She went away. I gave the man some money. He was pathetically grateful.
And every time I saw her as we went around the shop I was a little bit frightened.
Who can look at a homeless person in this weather and not have the slightest bit of compassion? Who?
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Date: 2010-01-12 04:21 am (UTC)Me: That six-pack you're carrying is making this conversation reeeal hilarious.
I'll usually give cash if I have it, buy them food if I have the time, things like that. Though it never occurred to me to buy dog food for the dog-owner folk. *is slow*