(253) ... so shall you receive
I gave a fiver to a mendicant couple in Southend at Easter 2007, the first occasion that I gave more than a few coins to beggars. A day or two later my (somewhat scruffily attired) wife and son dined at the El Descargador restaurant in La Union and, to their great surprise, when it came to paying the bill they discovered that it had already been paid for them by an anonymous couple at an adjacent table, who had since departed. On March 21st 2009 I contributed five pounds to a minibus fare in Leicestershire, although, in view of the number of passengers, I needed only to contribute just over a pound. The next day I hopped in a taxi for the return journey to the same railway station with someone whom I did not know and he offered to pay the entire fare of 5.80 Pounds. I insisted on chipping in about half. On March 23rd 2009 I returned to a girl at a Bureau de Change at Luton airport an extra 10 pounds she had mistakenly given me, adding that I did not want to get her into trouble. A cou...