The goal is always the same: to get someone (preferably a woman) to help me out or give me something. Nothing big, I just try to get the person who stopped to give me small change or buy me a coffee, or pay for my train ticket.
One time I got a girl to pay for my small grocery (less than 10€) and then promptly threw it all in the trash once I got away.
Other times I get them to carry my bags to the train station, sometimes mailing them lose some forty minutes.
I'm not poor nor disabled, mine it's an addiction and I know it.
What's this kind of mental illness called?
One woman was very angry and called me bad names. The second woman who recognized me tried to get me to go to the hospital or the police.