Reply #38: Often those who can least afford it are the most generous.

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I can remember very many years ago when I was delivering flowers on Mother's Day and I delivered of all things some lighted, plastic tulips to this old lady. She asked me to wait while she got me a tip (where I live people would rarely ever tip someone delivering flowers). Now money obviously meant something to this old lady and when she gave me the dollar I said, "thank you, and happy Mother's Day". My gift to her was to allow her to be generous.

Another time I was working for our local civic center and when there was an event they would charge $1 (that's "one" dollar) to park in the ramp. The ones who got bent out of shape and bitched about it: the ones in the big and expensive cars. The people in the beaters would tend to give you the buck and tell you to have a nice day. The nice cars seem to represent the Republican attitude while the beaters seemed like Democrats.