Marta Moment #4

This is a true conversation, which took place between a man and me.

[A man sits on a church step, smoking a cigarette with a cigarette pack in hand. I walk casually by on my way to the Marta.]

Man: Hey, man. Can I have some money to buy some food?

Me: Hmmm... Why don't you not smoke and then you would have some money for food?

Man: Come on, man. I gotta do something with my time.

Me: [After pausing] ... Well, then why don't you get a job?

Man: No man, I'm sick, I just got out of the hospital...

Me: Oh yah? What did you have?

Man: Lung cancer.

Me: [long pause]................ [walks away]