The American Express Card and an act of kindness
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A nice story from the Chicago Tribune:
A New York City ad executive says she never doubted a homeless man would return the credit card she loaned him in lieu of change.
Merrie Harris says she didn’t have any cash when Jay Valentine asked for some Monday, so she let him use her American Express platinum card instead.
Friends and bystanders told her she’d never see it again. But Valentine soon returned it after buying deodorant, body wash, cigarettes and water for a total of $25.
Valentine says he was surprised to be handed the card but never considered taking advantage of Harris’ generosity.
He says he lost his real-estate company job a few years ago. An Internet cafe in SoHo has been letting him sleep there. That’s where he ran into Harris.
Tip o’ the hat to Julie!
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I’m with Holte on that! An American Express card to boot!!
Nice the someone would have such faith in his fellow man but I suspect that if you had 100 cards and 100 homeless people, you would get back maybe 20 cards.
But on that same note, if you had 100 cards and 100 Wall Street investment bankers, you would probably get back only 5 cards. And that is because the 5 laughed so hard that they crapped their pants and had to go home and change.
That is a bizarre story, it is certainly something I would never do. I might buy him something myself, but certainly not hand over my card.
She probably had his entire backstory before loaning out the card. They met at an internet cafe? Obviously the guy was not the garden-variety drunken bum.