Tough Call

[koda]

So I’m gettin home last night from work just as my wife comes walking up with the dog. She’d been out jogging and stumbled onto a homeless lady camping in the arroyo down from our house. My wife was very concerned, and wanted to help. I agreed….and the evening was on. Yikes

As the story goes, she was married (assuming all this was true) and the husband was out looking for a job. She had no family to call, and he had family, but they were scattered around living with all sorts of other people as well. She was definitely camping out, and it’s in the 40’s / 50’s at night. We made some calls around town trying to get them plugged into a shelter, but it’s tough this time of year.

We ended up putting them in a hotel room for the night, flipping them a few bucks along with phone numbers for follow-ups to the shelters for the next day. It's hard to know what to do. These days bring such a wide range of problems and special needs, that it's really hard to know when your helping, or when your being bull shitted.

It's a "tough call"

[badgixxer]

don't worry about wether you helping or being bullshit as long as i your heart and mind you feel you did the right thing......
if it was the right thing - then you made a difference in their lives
if ti was bullshit then it doesn't matter cause in your heart you were doing the right thing....
not many will help - much respect

[Ibleedgreen]

You did a noble deed. If it has warmed your heart and made you feel like you have accomplished something worth your wild, then it wasn't such a "tough call" after all. Good work.

[adamf2]

that was a good thing to do. Just think, if you hadn't done what you did, she would have froze her ass off last night sleeping by a fucking creek.

[Casket Crew]

Your heart is in the right place but you're right these days it's hard to tell.... I assume you wouldn't have done all that if she looked like she was a boozer or doper.

I guess I'll say it to beat Mr. Lesbo, did you take pics of her in the hotel room?

[SpeedracerFTP]

that was a very nice deed!

[Rascus]

I've done similar things to the homeless people around the area. There is one guy in particular I always see on the way to work. I had saw him up ahead and pulled into the Mc'Ds and ordered him a double quarter with cheese and super size fries and drink.

The look on his face when I handed it to him I will always remember. Was a really good feeling.

Congrats to you for not just "brushing" them off. It's not often they are helped.

[Casket Crew]

I used to work logistics (shipping/reciving) for a big box store (you know all in one stores) well we had a shit load of food always coming back to be disposed of, not becasue it was bad but because it was more then just a few days old (yea it crazy but..) so being that I controled where all this stuff went I could donate it to places and we (guys in the back) would always take tons of snack cakes and tons of other stuff (pretty much everything the store had) home well one day I had my GF come pick up a truck load of stuff and filled the cab with cakes (like no shit 100 or so boxes) well she saw a homeless guy asking for change on the way home (freeway bums you know) and gave him half of the boxes. Talk about Jackpot! She said he was soooo happy that he couldn't even talk! I wondered how he carried them...

[evils-03-RR]

You did a good thing there and I'm sure you actually slept a little better that night knowing you helped someone in need

[Lost Sheep]

Way to go,,, very good deed...

Just remember no good deed goes un punished.

[bugeyed]

I got a really bad feeling that you will be running into more and more homeless in the years ahead.

[CBR600Lady]

I had helped a homeless lady before, like you, didn't know if I was doing the right thing or getting ripped off, but in the long run I at least knew I had done something nice for a stranger.

I think what you and your wife did was great, let's all hope that if we are ever in a situtation like that, that someone would help us.

[alaska cajun]

That was a very noble thing you did.

It's very hard to find that anymore ane I'm a firm believer that what goes around comes around.

The tough call part.
It's sad to say that alot of people are using the homeless thing to work a scam.

[Krazy Hawaiian]

Very Nice thing to Do... Random act of Kindness.

[japbike]

If only the rest of the world was like yourself.......