July 26, 2004 , 04:34 PM

PumpkinSeed

SESSION II 2004-07-25, Sunday
8:28pm

Headin home again from NYC bus terminal.

I don't know how much $ I gave to people during this adveenture.

Maybe I should count the people instead.

Interesting thing is, going from NJ to NY to Torronto to Ottawa, and back, the only people stranded without money to get home are in NY and NJ. Isn't that odd?

Let's see...

Newark Penn Station
1. gave a Young woman a few bucks to get back home - second time her boyfriend dumped her stranded in Newark with no money to get home. she handed out a few business flyers for me too - that was nice of her.

2. Gave some food to another woman, in a similar situation supposedly - Apple Sauce Cup, then a Almond Butter & Blueberry fruit spread on Marble Rye. Eventually gave her a dollar to contribute to her going-home-fund.

3. another woman came by asking for her Get-outta-Newark-Free card....well 60 cents to be specific, but the 2nd woman told her I didn't have 60 cents. (earlier I showed her I only had 22 cents) so what the heck- I passed the 22 on.

#2 again ....looked like she hooked up with some dude after a while - saw them heading off.

This taxi driver dude began talkin to me, letting me know if any NJ citizen had to get home, all they had to do was let the driver of the NJ Transit bus know, then they make some arrangement with some kinda I.O.U. documentation to get the person home, and pay lata.

Good grief - Just saw a billboard for "Trumped" - a radio show with Donald Trump. I'm sure it'll be better than most other bad talk radio. Oh well. Wonder how long that'll last.

4. Met a clean-cut dude trying to get home after doing some job interviews in NYC or sumthin. Yeah - he was short a few bucks too. I spotted him as well. He's a little interested in looking into working PPL - he already has the membership.

Now in NYC, comin home:

5. See this tall young cat addressing the people waiting at my bus terminal, sayin how he dont like to do this, but he needs $10 to buy his ticket home. No one seemed to hear him. I barely heard him. I was behind him, so I ask him some questions. I liked the bumper sticker on his bookbag "VOTE OR DIE 2004" - said he found it. Dude gotta get upstate NY, and lost his wallet. Said he works, and showed me his scar from gettin hit by a car earlier. Been stuck in NYC for 2 days. He looked and sounded exhausted. Some dude just spotted him $22 of the $32 needed. Poor kid, I spotted him the $10, and let him know about PPL - might be able to help him in case he gets his Identity Stollen.

6. this other dude is needin $2 to get his ticket home. "you'll never see me again" he keeps repeating - refering to the people who make a career of getting $2 to get home. I mention I never saw him before. heh heh. Said I didn't have singles - so he gave me $2 change for a $5. Woops!

sigh

Let's see how much money I get to keep coming outta Newark, heading home! Almost @ Penn Station.

sigh

heh heh - I think I spent like $14 on myself this trip...only on food.

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2004-07-25, Monday
7:04pm

well I made it through Newark with all my $. I came across like 3 people wanting some - 2 that I met last Thursday. I replied "What? You're still here??" to change the subject.

dang.

I actually feel bad for not givin sumthin to them.

One of them was #3, but this time she said the $ was for food. I told her normally I'd give her some food, but I ran out. She then complained, and I said how I gave her $ last time....yeah a whopping 22 cents! - how dare I even mention it? The other one, was a polite guy that I met before. His approach is more like "I know people have been asking you for $, but can you spare some for me?" I bet he gets less money than his peers due to his approach. Both times I dind't give him any. I tried to soften the blow by offering him my Canadian change...which I know is useless to him. More of a smack in the face to him from me. I know better.

On Thursday, I held a conversation with #2. I was talking how ironic it is that I'm just as broke as they are, but I'm able to share. I'm $25,000 ("American") IN DEBT, yet with cash in my wallet, that I can share with others. It doesn't make sence to me.

I'm lucky? I'm blessed.
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