Tonight a teenager, Jacob Vargas, was leaving the local Market Place after picking up a 24 pack of Coca~Cola. After entering his car, he heard the stranger next to his car shouting "excuse me!" so he rolled down his window, and the man asked him for some change.
"I wasn't sure what to think," says Jacob, " I mean, my first thought was, 'how is this guy going to spend this money?' How do you know how he is going to use it?"
The man was with a woman, and there were two young children in the backseat of his car.
When asked if Jacob thought that man needed the money for the kids, he responded, "Maybe. Maybe I was practicing civic duty, maybe I was entertaining an angel, or maybe I was just supporting some dude's drug addiction. Maybe it was all three."
Regardless of what he was doing, Jacob reached into his change drawer and grabbed a fistful of change and gave it to the man.
"He was very thankful. I don't know what kind of impact it has on his life, and I'm not sure of whether or not it was a good idea. I was taught to not do these things."
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