Narrowly avoided an embarrassing situation there!

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Last year I met a man who collected warm clothes and went around at night distributing them to homeless rough sleepers; it turned out he just lived in the next street and had been homeless himself in the past. A few times I passed on old but still useful clothes to him. Last week a woman offered some thermal long-johns on Freegle. I suggested I could pass them on to this man to give to someone in need, and she was keen to help and put together a couple of bags of warm sweaters, mis-matched socks, and sturdy shoes. I brought them home and thought I’d better check that the man still was collecting and distributing such things before going there with them, as I hadn’t seen him in a while. I sent him a text to ask – and got a reply saying he is now living in Cardiff, about 100 miles away! Lucky I checked – it could have been embarrassing if I’d been caught posting old socks and underwear through the letterbox of some totally random stranger! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2018.