Went to roller derby tonight. Guy sat next to me for a few minutes, then left. He left a pack of cigarettes sitting on the chair next to me. Hmmm. They're expensive, so maybe I should take them. It'd be a waste if I just left them, you know?
Put the box out while working on my laptop at the coffeehouse later this evening. Cute girl whom I see working at the coffee shop takes my empty white hot chocolate cup and says, "Can I buy a cigarette from you?"
Here's my chance to spread some good karma: "You know, I don't smoke. I went to a roller derby bout tonight. You can take 'em."
Thanks and you're so awesome, etc. I felt good to spread some good. But now I wonder -- she did offer to buy a cig from me. I thought no one would ask about the box I laid on my table, to be honest. I thought I'd just ask the girls working if any of them wanted cigs. But to be offered money ... should I have just sold her one? When she thanked me for the box she told me she had no money, but come to think of it, I have no money either. Maybe I should've just gone with it and taken the money.
This is why I am poor. I just can't make money when I'm perfectly OK giving stuff away.
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