This is Hidden Brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantan.
Some years ago, a homeless woman was being discharged at a Philadelphia hospital.
On her way out, nurses noticed the woman was wearing flip-flops.
It was January, and January's in Philadelphia can get very cold.
Nursing director Julie Munger had an idea.
Her daughter was a basketball player and had left a bunch of old sneakers in the trunk of Julie's car.
Would one of those spares fit the homeless woman?
They went out and took a look, but the shoes were all a size and a half too small for the woman's feet.
That's when Julie told a reporter from WTXF TV, things took an unexpected turn.
So as I was leaving, she's like, your shoes are nice.
I said, well, what size are your feet?
And she's like a 10.
Julie looked down at her own shoes.
They were a size 10.
They were also super comfortable, and she loved them.
Like, these are 10.
Do you want these?
And she just cried and thought it would be great.
So I just gave her the shoes.