My own

Some old woman actually walked up to me today when I was walking from school to the bus stop to ask me for money to take a taxi to new bridge road. She was really old and looked as if she carried her home in a trolley she rolled around. At first I thought she really needed a little amount to take to the city. But as she tried to convince me that she was really frail and injured and couldn't take a bus to the city, the more I began to think it was just a hoax. A shameful, unpleasant hoax to get money out of JC kids. To top it off, it was raining a typhoon and she claimed her rheumatism was acting up and etc. I told her she could take a bus to tanglin CC and transfer bus to new bridge road without getting drenched in the rain. But she kept pushing on about how she can't take the bus because she got injured twice in the past by taking the bus.

What a shameful and sad sight. She kept saying, as well, about how she always had to eat bread for dinner cause she's injured and can't work and didn't have money. The more she tried, the more I was sure this was just some stupid ploy to get $2 notes from every single person she approached.

This is disgusting. I am lost for words over how some of the older generation people behave like that. TO LIE to try to get money from kids. LYING about all the injuries, LYING about going to new bridge road to see the doctor and LYING to gain our sympathies (money).

Maybe if you approaced me for money to eat it wouldn't be so bad. Because I'm a compassionate guy. But telling me a cock and bull story about the past just makes me feel even more disgusted.

Society needs help.