Compassionate Giver Gifts

Won't admit I need help.

Africa

No Radio

"Millions! Billions! Maybe we should find some people who just need a few bucks."

Hey boss, mind if I give the 3-day-old muffins to Homeless Harry instead of throwing them out? Are you insane? Do you have any idea how many people are becoming homeless and moving into the alley every day? Three years ago it was just Homeless Harry. But now it's also Wandering Wanda, Displaced Daryl, Desolate Davina, Forlorn Farzad, Dispossessed Dale, Outcast Oswald, Derelect Daphne, Exiled Evan, Refugee Rachel, Itinerant Irving, and Vagabond Vernon. Tomorrow it could be Yomeless You, you know.

'Please, give me any book.'

Stocking.

Blind folded - Please Help.

"Thank you sir. Here is your receipt."

"We have donated to the needy in Eritrea and Haiti - which poor country do we want to donate to this year?"

Licensed Therapist

Medical personnel give their hearts

Prejudice/Empathy

'You are a very good nurse. You're actually listening to what I'm saying.'

'It's not easy being fabulous and caretaking.'

"The patient in 12-C needs comforting."

Advances in Third World Healthcare

"Rescue someone; rescue yourself"

Mental Health System Breakdown

"Tia Carmen, if times are tough, how come you're giving money away?"

Hospital.

Really? You're hiring me back to replace the robot you just replaced me with? I've had a change of heart, minion. It may be cheaper to automate my café. But it dawned on me that robots don't buy very many drinks. Plus, as much as I try to let the bottom line guide me, I am, deep down, a very compassionate man. I couldn't bear the thought of you being poor and miserable. Maybe he's not such a bad man. Plus, one accidental incineration of a customer and the authorities get all weird about it.

"Peace. Love. Adopt."

One tends to the sick. The other manages a large estate. Interestingly, a caregiver and a caretaker are not on opposite sides of an interaction.

NHS recruitment.

"No, those people aren't anorexic. Those people are starving."

'Sorry, shortage of staff.'

'A willingness to sacrifice yourself to bring 'peace and succor to the suffering' is all very well Mother Theresa but I don't think it makes up for your lack of knowledge of current hand sanitisation protocols.'

'I'm freezing...The rich list is a little thin this year.'

"It's our latest targets...We have to do twice as much with half the stuff in a quarter of the time!"

"On the other hand, his bedside manner is impeccable."

"I feel your pain...At home in Europe I also work 14 hours a day in my factory..."

'Could you wear a Dr. Phil mask?'

"John says you've all been compassionate and caring! Would you please stop... or he'll expect that at home!"

The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale