A speck of kindness

For a week now, alf has been tellin us about the poor and needy and such things

and last week i thought about the street sitters on broadway and commercial and how i pass them all the time and i could give them a spare water bottle i could be carrying and stuff like that

but then alf challenged us about how giving them stuff doesnt really do much
we're not helping them at all
just helping them pass TODAY and not live a normal life

i like how he mentioned the
give a man a fish feed him for a day
and
teach a man to fish feed him forever

and he challenges us again with questions such as
who owns the pond?
why doesnt the man know how to fish?

and stuff like that

so TODAY
Oct 20
me and AY and raymond her friend missed the bus on the way home
and they're were lik let's go to mcdonalds!
and am lik..crap i could eat at home why am i going there
as i was walking there i saw a women give her change to a street sitter and i was lik hey! i could buy a burger for this dood
as i was walking towards the resturant i had all these questions as
would he even like mcdonalds?
i counter myself by saying beggars cant be choosers
but then again i thought i would like to chose if i had a choice

so i was like crap, i should go back and ask but i didnt

and at the door there was this pretty big guy as in weight-wise and he was asking for a dollar so he can either buy a burger or something or a bus ticket

i was lik DING DING! hey this guy know what he wants!
so i went up to him and ask him what he wanted

and boy oh boy was he clear and precise
if you buy me something you can get me
TWO mcdoubles and a LARGE fries
that's only 5$

I was hesitant at first and am like ill see what i can get you
surprisingly enough ...or maybe not as surprising
he came in with me
and stood beside me and asked me to get him that meal he made up
at last i gave in and said ok

you want a drink with that?
uhh....sure? large coke

ok what he wanted was stated
and he went into details
as in something like

not ketchup or mustard/i want this added instead

ok you're ordering yourself i told him

then it was silence

i thought to myself why am i buying this guy food?
to know his current life story was the best answer i could come up with


SO! i asked him
is this your breakfast or lunch?

breakfast/i havent eaten in two days

where you from?

westminister/am stuck in vancouver/ by the way do you have a loonie i need to get back there

i have a bus card worth 2.50

he takes it and saids oh its not enough its two zones you have a loonie?

so i gave him another loonie

we order and the total comes to lik 8$ something

and then he chirps in ~ hey you have a 5 dollar bill ill give you my change and i can upgrade

(the change was around 2.50$ i havent counted it ~ it still in my coin section of my wallet/ but he didnt give me back my bus card oh well ~ )

so yeah ~ i forgot i talked to him so more
apparently he hasnt been working for 7months
been on EI and that all goes to his rent
he cant get caught on the skytrain or else he'll get arrested

so yeah ~ and bought meal gave it to him

one funny thing was after he ordered he points to me and tells the cashier~ yeah he wants something too

looking at the total ~ and am not very keen on spending anymore since i dont have income and yeah
so i was like

nope
and yeha it was pretty funny how he sounded genuinely concerned if i got a change to order or not


so i leave
and he's like thanks man !

and am lik yeah see yah


than AY is lik YOUR SO NICE ~
am like sure?

but in the back of my head
the whole time i was like
this is what i would want someone to do to me if i was in that guy's situation
so it goes back to the

do what to others what you want others to do to you ~ something like that

so yeah ~ thats my blog ~

it was my first time paying for someone else meal ~ fun times^^


i have to admit ~ i was a bit paranoid
i used my debit card and i was out of cash after that exchange so i got more money and changed my pin JUST in case ~ if that dood was staring at it
cause i didnt cover it or ne thing
and also
the change he gave me ~ i want to use it up
but at the same time
how is money dirty ? its still money ~
hmmmmm

wonder whats God tellin me this time ~