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About 18 years ago I had just left an interview in Salt Lake City. I saw a well dressed pan handler on my side of the road. He was in his late 30's or early 40's I would have guessed. I stopped and talked to the guy, and offered to buy him lunch. He took me up on the offer, so we ate lunch at the Long John Silver's across the road. We sat and talked for 30 - 45 minutes. He said he was a teacher from Ireland who had taken a sabatacle and come to tour America. He'd been mugged, and they took all his money and his plane tickets. He'd had the tickets reissued, and had contacted family. They were sending him money, but it wouldn't be there till the next day. I gave him another $20 to get him by till the next day (the conversation was worth that) I was actually in a pretty bad situation myself at the time, and helping out someone else made me feel better. Sometimes the guy who's down on his luck really is down on his luck. The guy I helped wanted a mailing address to send my money back. I was temporarily without a mailing address ( my bad situation) and I told him not to worry about it, help somone else if he finds himself able to in the future.