Sign of the Times

Not sure I've seen anything quite like this for a while: driving out of the Safeway parking lot, I pass a guy with a signboard--no, actually a brown paper shopping bag, with hand lettering. He looks housebroken: 40ish, poncho (it's raining), hat. The sign says:

Please Help.
Engine burned out.
Got to get to...

...but the rain had washed away the rest.

Oy. Hope he gets to sleep someplace warm tonight. And no, I did not stop to help.

Update: Apoligies; the earlier misspelling was mine, not his.