This may make some people laugh or cringe!
Without all the details, because some people may figure out WHO and WHEN this happened. I was asked to join some people for some fun through an educational event. Sounds straight forward? Just drive to the location, meet up with the small group, do the activities involved and done! What happened instead is…1) I arrive and someone tells me to go home not be there, 2) as I walked away some others glad to see me and turned me around walk to the building some preliminary things were happening in, 3) I get close to the building and someone is “given to me to pay to take my place”, 4) people who were happy to see me looked very confused… one kept asking me to join in, the other(s) asking me to pay for the replacement person. The day ended in compromise, that’s all I can say. I don’t recall if I got mugged or not. It could be I was for some of the day and then joined others later. Memory on the rest is not whole. I can say I didn’t have any money on me to “hire a replacement”… and I WANTED to participate even though I felt somewhat sick and weak.