this sunday i was trying to find a house address and after 20 minutes of mindless searching, some woman in a small compact car is at a stop sign and asks if she can trouble me for a favor..

she tells me her predicament - she's from Hope and she was buying somethings before she left for vancouver and forgot her wallet there, now she is in surrey (i am from vancouver) and her only friend in surrey is not answering her phone calls, she is almost out of gas and she promised her son who was with her that she would take him to science world.

I felt she was sincere enough so I said I could help so we went to the corner store a minute away and I pulled $40 out for her. that should have been enough for her considering all she wanted to do was get back to Hope, get her shit together and head back to Vancouver.

She said she'd compensate me for troubling me and I said it's fine (it's rare that you get an opportunity to help out a fellow human being like this) BUT the story is not over yet.

She gave me her number (250) 857 9452 her name is Mia and I gave her mine. She said she would make it into Vancouver later that day (somewhere between 4- 6ish) which was fine with me as I had a dinner back in Vancouver.


It's Tuesday today and she still hasn't called back. If she was sincere, the least she could do is called me back that sunday and told me it wasn't plausible for her to come back to vancouver.

I'm not going to call her back because I'm going to give her a chance to fix her own mess and besides, $40 is not a whole lot of money.

Anyway, if any of you know a Mia from Hope, tell her that I do not appreciate her lack of communication and her disregard for people trying to help her out.

Oh and she is probably 30 - 40 years of age, Caucasian, light brown hair (may have been dyed), about 5' 7", has a kid that is probably 12- 14 years old, and has really bad teeth.

Maybe I should have said no when I saw her teeth.

anyway,

that's my good Samaritan story.