It was an ordinary afternoon in San Diego, California. Michelle was loading her groceries. The parking lot of her local supermarket was full of cars, limiting visibility. Michelle didn’t like this at all and started packing her trunk more and more frantically. Still, she wasn’t fast enough to avoid the most annoying part of her weekly shopping trip: the beggar.

As Michelle turned around and got ready to use her standard blow-off phrase, she saw something that shut her up…