same here, when i fell for a sob story to a beggar "auntie is ill in Bromley, have no means of getting there, she has no one" etc etc I gave him the money for the train. Next week he asked me again, 'sorry you'll have to change your story you stung me last week' he of course moved on to the next person. Lowlander Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would put it down to experience; the old saying > "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame > on me" applies. > > I made a similar mistake in the early 1990s at > King's Cross when a bloke asked me for ?30 to get > a train back to somewhere. We swopped addresses > and he promised that he would post me the money > back. > > Of course weeks later I wrote to him ask if he > would be ever so kind and let me have my money > back. No reply...