Might be off the subject here a bit but since I was a kid, I've always given whatever change I had in my pocket when someone less fortunate needed help.
When I was in high school, I had a job with the post office which was located in the meanest, worst part of San Francisco were every bum and drunk that showed some pride in being such a proficient bum, congregated there and pissed on every sidewalk in that part of town. (Howard Street -South of Market - Now the home of million dollar apartments.)
I'd always save one of my peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches and give it to the first bum who approached as I got off the bus.
Then one day, this happened which made me change my modus operandi.
COACH ... Gas up here in No Cal is pass the $4 mark and will continue to rise until is slowly slows in the $5 area. This fact alone is gonna change the US/world economy as we know it. Family member has Chevron stock and is happy as shit. But that stock if you want to come out a winner. Should be splitten soon.
I had cashed my paycheck and stopped in McDonald's to get a Big Mac and a chocolate shake and saw a worn out bum standing on the near-by corner, so I ordered a Happy Meal to go in addition to my Big Mac with the intent of offering him his one and only meal that day.
I walked across the street to give it to him and he looked inside the bag and said, "What the fuck is this for?!"
I assumed I was that often heard about "stranger bearing gifts" and simply headed off.
On another occasion I was in New York City with my cousins who are Cirque du Soleil performers. It was a sunny Sunday afternoon and we were in Central Park and they threw their baseball caps on the lawn and started doing handstands and Cirque type acrobatic moves.
Without realizing it they had drawn a sizeable crowd and when they gathered their baseball caps, they realized that they were $300+ richer.
Knowing the Big Apple well, it was probably $600 but for that little kid with the Guido hat that appeared to be falling off his head.
Another fact that is kind of sad, but there used to be an armless and legless man asking for donations outside of Harrah's Hotel/Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. I only saw him once but I have been told that he was there often and was picked up by a chauffeured limo each evening.
Just another couple of examples on how to get rich if you want or need that money bad enough even when you don't expect it.
