A Beggar At A Truck Stop In Arizona

I remember one occasion when I was driving in Arizona. It was a shocking moment for me. A lady was begging for money, which isn't uncommon at truck stops. One usually expects beggars to approach for money. So the lady approached me. She gave me the whole sob story of her boyfriend who left her, she didn't have a job, lost the apartment, her two kids were hungry, and she didn't know what to do. Me being a social creature, I let the conversation go on for some reason.

To make it short, she was molested by her father as a child, forced on several occasions in her teen years, and then found a lesser evil boyfriend, who tried to get her into drugs, got her pregnant, and beat her all the time. Now I have heard that kind of story from beggars all the time, but just in case she was telling the truth, I gave her what I had in my pockets. It ended up being roughly over 60 dollars.


She broke down and cried right there, and then I started to wonder if maybe she was telling the truth. She walked away after some more small talk. I go inside to get dinner, and bigger than shit, I see her with two kids, that look as sad as they could ever be, getting dinner. They all looked depressed. I knew then that she wasn't lying about anything she told me, and I felt a lot of remorse for not doing more. So I told the waitress to put their meal on my tab. The look on her face when the waitress said their meal was being paid for by somebody else, was a look I'll never forget.

 

And that does not mean I’ll trust every beggar. But I will surely not rubbish all their stories. Some really have had a hard life.
Location: Arizona, USA

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