Has anyone here asked you for monetary assistance?
I had to let someone down :( Was it a scam, probably but that story was so believable!! Feel rotten :(
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Some one begging in the street, or a busker or Big Issue seller, is one thing but a remote request from someone unknown, perhaps trying to pretend to be a real friend or relative, is always a criminal attempt.
The only time I have been asked directly by a stranger in the street was when a girl I judged to be in her early teens, standing outside the Co-Op, tried to ask me to buy cigarettes in there "for her mother". I think in fact she had the cash. I did of course refuse outright, civilly but firmly. I forget if I warned the shop staff.
The only time I have been asked directly by a stranger in the street was when a girl I judged to be in her early teens, standing outside the Co-Op, tried to ask me to buy cigarettes in there "for her mother". I think in fact she had the cash. I did of course refuse outright, civilly but firmly. I forget if I warned the shop staff.