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In a message dated 2/20/2005 10:33:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I even had a man with a child in a shopping cart filled with cloth and junk come up to me near 40th street to ask me for money to buy his child something to eat. Back in the mid 80's there was an late 20's-early 30's black male who
worked Walnut St with a black toddler in a Thriftway type cart. He approached me
for money at 43rd & Walnut Sts. I assume I was a desireable mark because I
was accompanied by a daughter who was only several years older than the
toddler. For a moment I stood there, racked by my sense of Christian charity and
my duaghter watching me, before I told the man "No" and watched him puch the
cart away.
My daughter looked at me and said something to the effect. "Did you see
that such and such doll in the cart? That's a really expensive doll. You
wouldn't buy that for me."
Sometimes, even babes can spot the con men.
Ciao,
Craig
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