The document describes a scenario where a person loses their job and is hungry. They try the soup kitchen but it is closed. They see a bakery about to close with leftover bread. Unsure what to do, they consider stealing the bread, waiting by the bins, or asking the baker. If they had asked, they would have learned the baker gives away leftover bread and may have even been offered a job.

1. HUNGER DILEMMA

2. You lost your job and you’ve spent all of your money
this month.
You’ve spent the day looking for jobs and now you
are hungry as you didn’t manage your money
properly.
You’ve tried to get some food from the soup kitchen
but they were closed.

3. You walk down the road and notice that
a bakery is just about to shut.

4. You are really hungry.
You notice that the baker has a loaf of bread
left and is about to close for the night.
The baker goes out of the shop to clean the
kitchen.

5.  Do you steal the bread from the shop?
 Do you wait by the bins and hope he throws it out?
 Do you ask the baker for the bread?

6. You see that the baker has gone to the
kitchen.
You realise that this is your only opportunity.
You run in and grab the bread. As you are
running down the street, you decide to eat the
bread and realise that it’s plastic.

7. You are now so hungry from running away
from the bakery.
You pass two people walking towards the
bakery who are deep in conversation about
the kind baker who offers left over bread free
to anyone who asks.
If only you’d asked.

8. You wait by the bins and you see the baker
close the shop and get in his car.
You are still hungry and realise that he didn’t
throw the bread out.

9. You see two people walk away from the bakery
eating bread and hear that the kind baker had
given them leftover bread for free.
If only you’d asked…

10. You decide that you cannot wait for the
bins, so you ask the baker for the bread.
He tells you that the bread is a plastic display
bread, but he has left over bread out the back.

11. The baker gets the bread for you and then you
notice a job advertisement on the counter.
You ask the baker about the job and he offers
it to you.
You are now no longer jobless or hungry.
If you don’t ask you don’t get!