10-25-2014, 08:25 PM
I once got 'the call' from a woman I had never met. Her father was my dad's right-hand-man for many years. She had received money a couple of times before, and was calling collect. The noive! I refused to accept the charges, and have not heard from her since. That was maybe six years ago. Begging can be a bit of a nuisance, and I explain it as desperate people doing desperate things. I have no idea how lucrative begging can be for Jamaicans, but I imagine the ones that do it must believe that it works. I don't expect them to change just because I request them to. I figure I need to find ways to deal with it if the situation arises (like Macy).