I met a girl, much younger than me, on a walk downtown and she asked me for some money. "For a bus ride home", and as the bus station happened to be nearby, a not inconceivable request, but I still said "no".
I started to walk on and then turned back and asked her why she was asking me for money, in exchange for nothing. In effect, why was she begging?
I asked her if she had graduated from high school. She said, "yes".
"Why are you begging?" I asked insistently, and she replied, "God begged!".
I told her that I thought that she had gotten it wrong, that "God doesn't beg, but he helps those who help themselves".
She said that she was helping herself and I asked her how?
"By asking you for money" she said with a straight face.
I clapped her on the shoulder and said that I didn't imagine that that is what God meant.
She laughed and I laughed, and we parted.


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