This blog is about street people who ask me for money. It is also used as an opportunity for me to teach someone what to say when they're approached by a person asking for money. But what happens when a person approaches you and you think they're going to ask for money because they have a certain look, but then they don't ask for money? That happened today, and it is a great story. It's a story that I would not want to miss writing down. This morning I took one of my residents to a big box store. He needed new socks and underwear. He also needed some jean pants, but after looking at jeans for a while, he decided that he didn't want to spend the money on it. This guy had been working for the past few weeks at a company in town, and he told me he really enjoys his work. He has received his first paycheck on a pay card which is kind of like a debit card. The company pays him through that card so they don't have to produce an actual check. After going to
I thought that by starting this blog I would realize how often I was asked for money. I originally believed that I got asked for money all the time. As it turns out, I don't. Today I was asked for money, and from looking at this blog, I realize that I was last asked for money in early October. I guess I should revise my time scale. This morning I took one of the residents of Potters House to the Probation & Parole (P&P) Office on Mercer St. I took him there in the Potters House van. On the way there, the resident told me that he had never in his life been to a meeting with a parole officer. When I asked him if he had ever been on Mercer Road, he told me that he hadn't. He said he also hadn't been on a city bus. I told him that later on I would teach him to ride a bus. I talked to him about how to address the officer. Earlier this morning I showed him the picture of the officer from the listing of officers from P&P that was sent to me earlie