I have never had good luck with the disabled. It all started when I was 18. I was in the Walmart parking lot in Easley, when I noticed this man walking toward me waving his hand and presumably trying to say something to me. I yelled to him that I didn’t hear him. He came even closer, still waving, and I repeated my lack of understanding. About that time, with dozens of people watching, he gets to me, and is wearing a sign that says, “Deaf and Mute. Please help. Candy $1.00.” He had a little apron on with candy bars in it, and was trying to make money selling them. I felt so ashamed and embarrassed at my goof that I gave the man a twenty-dollar bill and refused the candy.
From a distance, things are not always what they seem. Sometimes we need to get closer and look closer before we open our mouth.
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