My faith in people has been restored
01-11-2011, 03:17 PM
#14
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: North Carolina - But otherwise, NOTW
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I personally believe that the majority of the people of the United States are good, hardworking, honest people. If they ask you for work, they will do the work honestly.
In our city we have a couple of "groups" of people who work together standing on corners panhandling--they rotate corners, and just beg all day long.
I don't give to beggars unless I feel led to do so, and then I figure it's between them and the Lord what they do with it.
In our city we have a couple of "groups" of people who work together standing on corners panhandling--they rotate corners, and just beg all day long.
I don't give to beggars unless I feel led to do so, and then I figure it's between them and the Lord what they do with it.
01-11-2011, 03:22 PM
#15
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Upstate, SC
Posts: 2,164
oh wow!! that is awesome for both of you!
Originally Posted by BarbaraTX
Last week a 50ish year old man came to my door and asked if he could rake the leaves in my front yard. Said he'd do a good job, needed money for his family. I said I only had a few dollars in my wallet (I had forgotten that I took some cash out a few days before.) I told him I'd give him some food to take home, (growing up, mom always told me, never turn someone away who asks for food), but he was on his bicycle and he needed feminine products for his wife and teen girls. I felt so bad - it was cold and drizzly. I told him I'd give him whatever was in my wallet. That's when I found the little bit of cash I had taken out. I gave him $15 (that left me with $3) and told him he didn't have to rake the leaves. I kept thinking about this guy and just knew I'd been taken. But I'd rather be taken than turn someone away that was really needy.
Well, he just showed up at my door and is mowing the yard and bagging up the leaves (he has one of those catchers on the mower). He dragged the mower, gas can, etc. behind his bike (still no car). My faith in people is renewed!
Well, he just showed up at my door and is mowing the yard and bagging up the leaves (he has one of those catchers on the mower). He dragged the mower, gas can, etc. behind his bike (still no car). My faith in people is renewed!
01-11-2011, 03:29 PM
#16
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Victoria Australia
Posts: 317
How kind of you to give him money not knowing if he was genuine or not and for him to repay your kindness like that. Maybe he should start a little local lawn mowing service and make a bit of money. The world needs more people like both of you. ;-)
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