When I went to Nashville for the Southern Baptist Convention I met up with a friend who moved to Nashville. He doesn’t get many visitors and so he was excited that we were coming down. We decided to leave the convention slightly early and go out to catch dinner with him. After walking about 5 blocks, uphill, in 85 degree weather we finally made it to his car which he had parked in front of the building where he works out so that he didn’t have to pay for parking. When we were getting into the car a guy approached asking for $1.75. My friend, being the kind hearted soul that he is, wanted to help this homeless man out and so he asked him what he wanted. The homeless guy said he just wanted to buy a couple hot dogs and some smokes. My friend told the guy that he would go to the gas station and buy him a couple hot dogs, but he wouldn’t buy him smokes and he wasn’t going to just give him money.
We piled into the car and drove to the gas station while the homeless guy sat down where we had met him and waited for us to come back with his hot dogs. I sat in the car as my friend went inside to get the hot dogs. When he returned he jumped back into the car and handed me the item that he had purchased. It was not a hot dog.
I said, “What is this.”
My friend responded, “It’s a deli sandwich.”
To which I said, “This is not a deli sandwich!”
“It says hoagie on it, so it has to be a deli sandwich.”
To which I said, “NO! It says hoagie burger. It’s a hoagie bun with a hamburger patty and cheese. This is something you have to heat up in the microwave, its not a deli sandwich.”
My friend replied, “It is a deli sandwich.”
This whole thing went on for about 3 minutes before my friend, ignoring my pleas, drove back to the place where we left the homeless guy and handed him an ice cold hamburger.
While I respect my friends heart, and his desire to want to help this guy, I have to say that his descision making ability is quite skewed. The poor homeless guy surely doesn’t have a microwave so that he can just heat it up. This guy had icey cold hamburger patty with cheese for dinner. Maybe he sold it for $1.75…
Oh, it’s been hot enough in Nashville that it probably thawed and warmed up within an hour or two. Maybe it was just a test of willpower for him: do I eat the frozen hamburger or do I wait until tonight and have a warm hamburger?
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