Tonight as I was walking home from work, I passed an inebriated older man asking passerby in the street for change. As I crossed the street to pass him, he approached a teenage girl and asked her for spare change. She replied, very sympathetically,
“I’m sorry sir, I don’t have any change. Why, are you hungry?”
His response? “No, I want a beer.”
And instead of responding that she was sorry she couldn’t help, she reached into her purse, pulled out her wallet, and handed him a bill. Given that in Australia, coins are used for all currency denominations below A$5, she had to have contributed at least A$5 towards the purchase of this man’s beer.
I guess in Australia, honesty can help get you drunk.
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