I’m not rich by any means, but I make a good salary and my wife doesn’t have to work. She has a habit of going out in ultra-casual gear, which apparently makes her look very poor. While shopping today she has had 4 different people ask if she needed money to buy the baby some toys. Hahahahaha Holiday kindness can be so insulting at times =D (She’s a good girl and doesn’t take their money)
Never look a gift horse in the mouth, She could had taken the money and shared it with the local food pantries. It would had made the givers feel happy and help feed the needy. The test never ends ; how high you score is up to your own conscience! Good and Bad Karma -What comes around goes around and comes back at you
I used to be offered money all the time when I did plain clothes work as the easiest two ways of being invisible in London are to drive a black taxi or be a homeless guy outside a tube station - people would sling change at me without actually looking at me, which I always found chilling somehow. I gave it away of course but it always felt very weird -you are only ever a few meals away from hunger.
I wrote a huge response that I just nuked. I’m too wordy sometimes. I love the term ‘sling change’ as it kind of summed up what people were doing. The sentiment is nice, but the targeting of need is a little off. Our area takes really good care of its poor though, so my guess is it was just a bit of holiday love that got misdirected. It’s not the only time this kind of thing has happened before though. Twice now my wife has been asked if our 4 year old is ‘special needs’. The problem is she’s only 2 1/2. She just has a really tall daddy.
I’ve had people think I was homeless when was wearing my shitty work clothes. 
I did loss prevention in my younger years, and I always went through the store with torn up jeans and a leather jacket. It was always a wild time during xmas season… One time a sweet old lady offered to buy me a coat (did I really look that ratty and forlornly?) I said “Thanks so much Ma’am, but I work here…” “You"re welcome dear. But you still need a nice coat”, and she touched a leopard print fake fur jacket. Lol!