Note to Self: Don't let the crazy lady in

So I have this bad habit of helping those that are less fortunate than I am.
I was just raised to always be helpful and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

So when a poor soul shows up on my doorstep I try to help as much as possible.
Well now I know that I have to be careful when letting the crazy people in.

NOW AS A DISCLAIMER.
She seemed normal.
She seemed like a poor soul.
The roommate was home too so it was OK.
Its really hard for me to say no to poor souls.


So here I am one afternoon minding my own business.
The roommate I thought might be having a friend over.
So when I hear a knock I say "is that you?"
The person at the door replies "no its Linda".
Now our landlords name is Linda so I open the door to this middle age woman who obviously looks like she hasn't seen a shower in a few days.
Poor soul if I've ever seen one.

She starts explaining to me that her power was shut off and she nearly froze last night and she just needs to charge her phone really quick if I wouldn't mind letting her in.

So I do.
Big mistake.

She seemed harmless.
Well what i thought would be like 10-15 minutes turns into an hour and a half.
Turns out she needs to charge her phone to call her case worker.
And then she calls La Plata Electric and bitches them out for turning off her electricity.
And something about being burned by crack or there's some chemical that she got burned by and whenever she gets around it her burns bleed. Which is just crazy in itself.
And apparently she has some sort of mental disability so she cant work.
Sometimes she just goes on this rant and she explains later that her mind just turns off sometimes and she doesn't know what she is saying.
And she is just crazy.
And I am over my head.


So I cant really kick her out.
And then the roommate has to leave so we devise that we are just going to say that we need to leave soon and she'll leave.
She didn't seem dangerous at first and after all of this I wasn't too sure.

That works thank goodness but it was just a bizarre experience.
She leaves and after we lock the door and thank god that its over.

But moral of the story.
Even the pathetic looking poor souls can be crazy.