Hateful Ignorance
The other day at the bus station, a man and a woman were talking. The topic meandered as they small talked. They started with the weather, until the woman made a comment about the garbage on the ground at the station. Neither of them, by the way, at any point took any action to clean any of it up. They both lamented on how people don't care. The conversation of the status of the bus station diverged slightly as the man related a story of another man who came by very regularly to ask for cigarettes. The man sharing his story decided to ask this cigarette man for cigarettes one day, before the cigarette man had a chance to ask. Apparently, cigarette man had cigarettes that he kept to give out to the homeless. It was never said but I filled in the connection that perhaps this man was asking for cigarettes so he could share them with homeless, rather than have to spend money on them himself. A solicitor for cigarette donations for the poor. The conversation turned hard onto the homel