Izz u pimpin on the Metro????

So I have been thinking here lately, EVERY time that I get on the train that, you know what...where is my Metro act...and every day I am disappointed because ZERO, NADDA, NOTHING happens...Well yesterday that all came to an end...but not in the way that you think..

So I take a seat on the Yellow Line from King Street and you know I am talking on the celly as usual...and this woman and her three kids get on the train as well...now this doesn't seem unusual to me, but then the mother asks the oldest of the three girls, "do you have your paper?" she says yes and then the mother proceeds to tell her to ask the lady next to her on the train...

So the little girl reaches in her pocket pulls out a rinkled up piece of paper and starts on this spill about please give us money because we are homeless, help a homeless family by buying some cinnamon buns...not only is the oldest (who looks about 9 or 10) doing this to the lady sitting right next to her and in front of me, but the mother has also instructed the other two little girls who look about 6/7 and 4/5 to do the same.

So all three of the girls go around the train, doing their spill, getting their hustle on, the whole time the mother is sitting next to me. She never gets up she never even looks around to see if the girls are ok...she just let them go off and do their thing. Never once did she ask me for any money, I figured that she wouldn't because I would say NO (you will understand later), NOT ONE did SHE (the mother) ask anyone for any money...

NO she USED her three kids to do that...that's right I said it, she used her kids....

I got off the train with a very heavy feeling in my heart about the entire situation. First I actually felt bad for the little girls, because whether or not they are homeless, their mother is using them all day long it seems to me to pimp people for money while she does nothing...she uses her kids to play on peoples emotions to get money...every time a child got some money from someone they promptly brought it back to their mother, just like a whore would do for her pimp.
It hurts to know that these little girls could be in summer camp or programs, even if homeless, and doing stuff that little girls should do, but already they are being introduced to the hard, harsh, real world...with "getting money" for your family being made a priority to them at an early age when it shouldn't be their responsibility.

Second, I felt wired because it only confirmed just how cynical I am to "beggars" like me, if I see you on the street and I am going into a store I will offer to buy you something to eat, a bag of chips, a sandwich, something, but I won't give you money. You may honestly be on the streets because of hard times, but I don't know that...I actually tried to give a man fruit once and he was like if its not a drink I don't want it...that right was my lesson! But I have also asked several people if they wanted food and they did and took it...so that is what I do...I will give you something to eat and say a little prayer for you as I walk away. Even with those three little girls I refused to give them any money, because it wouldn't got to THEIR needs, but rather THEIR mothers wants....

Third, should I have said something to the woman about what she was doing with HER kids? Did I have the right to tell her, look lady, get it together if you want to hustle then you hustle but them three precious little girls right there ain't got nothing to do with it...you do what YOU got to do, but let them kids be just that KIDS, they had too small clothes, all three with little too short mini skirts...it was like she was selling them in more ways than one...

It was really distributing to see this on the train yesterday...but I see it more often than you think...parents getting their kids to ask for money to play on peoples emotions...its just not right....I mean I can't even imagine how hard it is to be a single parent (and that's assuming that she is a single parent) with one child let alone three...and yes sometimes you got to do what you got to do, but key word here people is YOU! That's not their responsibility to provide for you and THEM, that's yours! You get up off your butt and you make things happen, you don't use your kids to hustle money...You just don't do it!
But then, to top it off...
WHERE WAS THE CINNAMON BUNS THEY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SELLING?