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An Approach by a Homeless Man - A surprising outcome

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 ch...