There are all sorts of bad feelings in this world. But two things that really gives bad feelings 'legs' is 1) A sense of injustice, and 2) The sense of being scammed. The latter because it's often the feeling - quite unjustly - that one has been complicit or somehow a participant in the thing that has happened. It can really grind your gears.
I'll share one scam, hopefully not as a form of one-upmanship (I'm a bloke btw not really relevant but on some threads I out myself). It was when I was out and about in London and got the old 'we are a couple who've lost our money or had it nicked, please give us some cash to get back home and your address and we'll repay you.' This was a looooong time ago. I was prepared to believe them and handed over - grrr, grrrr - £50 or so - but get this, it was a bit short and the bloke - part of an Asian couple, the woman, quiet and respectable, there as if to lend credence - pointed this out to ensure I handed over the full amount. Which I did.
Now, I did justify this at the time, thinking, well I'm gonna donate £50 to charity to mark Princess Diana's passing (told you it was long ago) and instead it can go to this cause.
Of course I never heard back from them.
Still, my question is - and I suppose this should be.a thread of its own, so ignore if you want, is what if the couple really had been stranded with no cash to get home? And what would you do in that situation (it might have even been before mobile phones, so no contacting someone.) Could one go the police and ask for help? Why would they?
It's the memory of the solid-looking, bespectacled, respectable looking bloke taking care to pushily point out that I hadn't gifted him the full amount, and my going along with it... 