[NON BLOG] Random Encounters
Jan. 3rd, 2005 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldWhile disembarking an hour ago from the College TTC station en route to my new job, a street person who I'd seen before in the area--a woman in her 50s--asked me for 15 cents. I walked a couple of steps past her, then I doubled back and offered to buy her something from the Cinnabon in the nearby College Park underground mall. I ended up getting her a cinnamon bun and a coffee.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do in situations like this. Charlottetown was a rather different sort of situation; even in Kingston, poverty wasn't so visible. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do since episodic case-by-case actions surely can't be enough.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do in situations like this. Charlottetown was a rather different sort of situation; even in Kingston, poverty wasn't so visible. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do since episodic case-by-case actions surely can't be enough.
