A man who was approached by an elderly woman asking for a dollar decided to buy her a meal instead, saying he has “no regrets” even if he might have been scammed that day.
Bruce Mathieu, a former drug addict turned motivational speaker, said in a Facebook post that he had met an elderly woman on May 16 while waiting for the traffic light on the way home.
“An auntie locked eyes with me. In a very soft voice, she asked me: ‘Sir… can you give me one dollar?’” he wrote in the post.
He noted that she was holding a cake, which she claimed someone else had bought for her.
“That stopped me. I asked her: ‘Are you hungry? You want to eat?’. She nodded,” Mr Mathieu wrote.
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The pair went to Al Makan, an Indian-Muslim restaurant along Tampines Avenue 2, where she ordered sambal fried rice with chicken, and a blue lagoon drink with longan.
Mr Mathieu said he paid for the meal before the two parted ways.
