I believed the distressed man’s story about being broke and needing some money from me to secure his driving license so that he could get a job as a bus driver. However, there was just one detail that kept me from giving him the money that he was begging for—he was an ex-convict and had just been released from the city jail a few days earlier. How could I trust someone who had been in prison for many years? I reluctantly gave him the money that he needed.
He returned a few months…