Kind of Scammed

Day 336

My family went to an event in the city today, and when we were parking the car a man walking by told us that we were in a no parking zone, and that there were some open spaces a block over. We thanked him and as we were getting back in the car, he said that he needed to take a bus home, and was just 85 cents short for the ticket. What seemed like a kind act quickly appeared instead to be a bit of a scam. My husband and I looked at each other and realized we had no choice but to give him a dollar.

We didn't feel like we had a choice because we were with our boys, who were already impressed that this man had been so helpful to us. To have to explain to them why we wouldn't be kind to him, and that perhaps he wasn't a nice as he seemed was more than we wanted to take on in that particular moment.

Besides, there is a chance that it was true, that he was a nice guy who was a dollar short for the bus. But if that's truly the case, I think I will look into that swamp land in Florida that seemed like such a good deal....