Strange in the city

I walked out to my car the other night to get something I had forgotton earlier, when out of nowhere this strange not so cleanly man was in front of me. I politely listened for a moment as he feverishly babbled on about something or other. I asked him to repeat again slowly just what he was trying to communicate to me, and so he proceeded to tell me about his daughter who was in a car accident with her baby sitter. Aparantly they were both at the hospital waiting for him to sign his daughter out. He asked me for a ride and I hesitantly agreed to do what I could to help this man out. He kept insisting I call officer Monroe to verrify his story and that if I helped him out I would be compensated for my services. As we began driving I started to get a little nervous because the left and right turns I was taking were bringing us to a section of town I wasn't very comfortable with. Not to metion my passenger nearly hat a panic attack when we drove by an alley he aparently got mugged in a few weeks prior. He started asking if I would just give him 7 dollars for cab fair so I could go and not have to sit on that side of town. He assured me he would give me his wallet to hold until he could repay me three times over. I insisted I had no money to give him because my wallet was at home. He seemed dissapointed and hung his head. He asked me if I would leave him down town where he could find someone to help him. I headed for down town and prayed with him for his and his daughters safety and the let him out on main street in a well lit area. I finally arived back at the apartment and began relating the story to my roomate who snickered and replied, "That guy is crazy he did the same thing to me last week."