Somehow this society getting very screwed...
I still remember this encounter with an elderly lady. I had signed
up as a volunteer over my school holidays for a charitable cause...
it was a simple assignment.... Use my free time to accompany this
old old lady i was assigned to...
Scenario's all the same, when old woman meets young girl... she
starts rattling about everything from world war to how her own kids
no longer pay as much attention to her, so she's living in some Toa
Payoh rented flat...
On my second meeting with old lady... She asked me for money...
citing all sorts of reason...
Look I am not trying to be mean... but this old lady isn't THAT
old... and she's perfectly functionable... she can easily get an
odd job rather than sit around all day waiting for money to drop
from the sky... and that was the 2nd time I met her?
Back then... I was a poor student... and for some odd reason, I
just gave her my $20 I have in my wallet... Then she start to
expect some kind of monetrary contribution to her everytime i see
her... 
That incident left a bad taste in my mouth... From then on... I no
longer adopt any charity for such elderly...