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Just when a Scottish Backpacker was beginning to think he may have to jump on a Viber call to his parents back home, the world handed him a lifeline.
Gregor Boyle was doing it tough down in the harbour city of Sydney, with rejection after rejection starting to take its toll.
Unable to get a labouring gig for his short working holiday in the city, 22-year-old Boyle had to turn to the clutches of the charity.
Chugging away aimlessly for a couple of weeks for some beer, food and hostel money, the young man was at the verge of losing all hope, until, he spotted a honeypot.
A honeypot in the form an elderly couple from out of town, meandering through the city.
“If it had been a week ago, I would have felt sorry for them and let them continue their wander down the street. But this week was tough,” Boyle said.
“So when they naively made eye contact with me, a friendly young man, I knew I could lock on.”
Boyle explained that he talked to the friendly farmers from a place he had never heard of, but pretended to recognise for the purpose of keeping the conversation ticking along, about the plight of some kids in a third world country.
“I got it done,” he then said to us.
“I’m not proud of it, and I wished I didn’t have to. But life’s a piece of shit sometimes.”
“Besides, they’re hardly going to be going without because they are sponsoring the kids and me.”
“Anyway, looks like I won’t have to call Mum and ask her for more money!”
