Time Wasted
I guess I made it worse for myself by the effort I put in, but anyway…
I was walking home through the main street of my city after a night out (stuffing my face with leftover pizza) when a lady came up to me saying she needed to get to the hospital immediately, because her fiance was in ER.
She looked genuinely distressed and I quickly gave her directions of where to go and what bus to get. But she said (and I’m paraphrasing to make this more vague) “No I don’t think it was that hospital, I think it’s the new one on the eastern side of the city.”
I looked up what bus to get and told her. “I don’t have any money,” was the response. The bus stop was just round the corner, so I gave her £2 and accompanied her to the bus stop, since one was just coming, and I watched her get on…and then she got off again.
Starting to get suspicious, I rushed up to her and asked what happened. “The bus driver told me to get this other bus, he said that one was more direct?” I looked it up, and saw that the closest stop for it was on the complete other side of town. “That’s odd, the time it’s going to take you to walk there will make it much longer?” I said. She just acted confused too, and kept saying she didn’t know the city very well.
The other stop was in the opposite direction for me, so I just accepted defeat and left her to it, feeling pretty certain that she had nabbed £2 from me.
Oh, you don’t know the city at all because you’re not a local, but have a good grasp on where the different hospitals are? Why are you in a city you don’t know alone, away from your fiance, who just got into a fight on the other side of town? Just didn’t add up really.
The £2 was nothing but I spent a good 20 minutes trying to help her out when I just wanted to go to bed.
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