Ever give money to a stranger

[loki]

Currently away from home tonight with work in the sulubrious heights of Wolverhampton. Que the usual night at the Bilash for a Ruby. Anywho on the way back to the hotel I was stopped by a stranger asking for some money. Story this time was a bit different in that the asian guy who had stopped me had been told that a gang of white kids told him he was P*** scum and that no good white boy would give a P*** any money to get back to Manchester.

Now coming from Manchester maybe the tried and tested story of him being born and bred Mancunian was lost on me as he sounded as mancunian as I sounded as Swiss.

Anyway cutting a long story short I didn't have any money on me even if I didn't want to give him any. It got me thinking, are there any genuine people out there who do need just that little bit of help just to get on with a particular situation. It's probably very easy to castigate people who live on the streets as parasites and why can't they make there own way in life. That said I would hate to be so low that my life was dependent on asking a complete stranger for a peg up