Monday, January 30, 2006

Moral Dilemma

So here's a question for you...

How do you offer assistance to someone without offending them? Is it possible?

We were at Safeway this afternoon. There was a man there who looked as though he could be homeless. He seemed fairly clean and groomed and had a walkman BUT he also had a huge backpack and sleeping bag. So is he homeless or not? If he were, I would like to have bought him a sandwich. But maybe he wasn't homeless and would have been very offended by my offer. Needless to say, the guilt was killing me as I sucked down my Starbucks frappacino and pushed my full cart of groceries right past him.

What should I have done? What should I do next time?

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