[sheffy4]

I wanted to share an experience I had today with my boyfriend.
I was at work (at a coffee shop), I was taking a break, sitting at one of the tables and chatting with my boyfriend who had stopped by to visit.
A man walks into the shop, looking a bit disheveled and distressed, and after a few seconds he sits down at the table with us and he says something like this:
"I need your help guys. My mom just got killed at the Y [an intersection across town]. She was killed in a rollover accident. You can go down there if you don't believe me. I'm not lying.
I need $4.00 for the bus so I can go down and get the rest of her stuff. Do you guys have $4.00 I can have?"

Throughout his speech we were both shocked and very uncomfortable, as he seemed like he was a little drunk or on drugs, but I suppose if his mother really did just die, than he could have been just really upset. We tried to be sympathetic, but his manner just made us feel really creeped out, and we told him we didn't have any money; however, I bet we could have scrounged up $4.00 for him if we tried. I think we were just so weirded out, and we just wanted him to go away, so we told him we didn't have money so he would leave.

I'm curious, how would you guys have handled the situation?