POINTS TO PONDER XI

From Reader's Digest:
Contributed by Barbara Wilkes

My young niece was standing on a corner in Portland, trying to hitch a ride, when a shabby old man came up to her. ""Say miss," he said, "do you have a quarter?" My niece turned out her pockets and found one, which she offered him. Refusing the quarter, he said, " Good. 'Cause I have thirty cents, and with your quarter you'll have enough money to take a bus. Hitchhiking's not safe for girls." Whereupon he handed her his change and shuffled off down the street.