[Rick Lee]

I once spent a day working at a soup kitchen on Perry St. in Trenton (VERY BAD area). It was run by a Catholic church and there were a lot of nuns helping out. Some of the poor folks in there just wouldn't stop asking me for "bus fare" or whatever. They all had great stories and back then I believed them. I asked one of the nuns what to do and she told me to not even think about giving them money. She further explained we were already giving them a pretty good meal and a warm place to hang out and any money would just go for smokes, booze, lotto tix or drugs. I always remembered that.