Cary Fischer was at Dunkin Donuts near campus to get her morning coffee when she saw a homeless man sitting on the side of the road picking up spare change that people had dropped. He strolled into the coffee shop, unaware that Cary was watching him. She watched him counting his change and decided to chat to him.
“I began to get super annoying and talked to him over and over again even when he didn’t really want to talk,” Casey said. “Since he had maybe $1 in change I bought him a coffee and bagel and asked him to sit down with me.”
The two sat down and started talking over the small breakfast, with Chris telling her his life story and admitting his mistakes, which got him where he was.
“He told me a lot about how people are usually very mean to him because he’s homeless, how drugs turned him into the person he hated, he lost his mom to cancer, he never knew his dad and he just wants to be someone his mom would be proud of,” Casey posted on Facebook, detailing the hour-long conversation she had with him.
