I avoid our Winn Dixie store on Saturdays just because of the cardtables set up outside the entrance where people ask for money to send a kids to baseball camp or a band to band camp or sell candy or tins of pop corn.
The very last time I went on a Saturday, after not having given money to a man whose kids ball team was soliciting funds the man made a desparaging remark to me for not donating. I kept on walking without saying anything but would have liked to tell him that i had just wired money from the Western Union counter inside the store to pay my adult childs rent and utilities due to the latest layoff. And that the month previous I had done the same for someone else who was in a bind. Those of us who help others when we can would rather know that our limited funds are going to our loved ones in need.