Against my better judgement and really, I never do it but yesterday, I was at a gas station and the lady parked in front of me walked up and asked for gas. She pointed to her new Ford F150 and said she was out in the area because her dad just died and went on to say how someone stole her wallet and now she's out of gas. Right. Anyway, I typically tell people like this, "sorry, I can't help you" then turn away but yesterday, I was feeling the Christmas spirit and decided to just give in even though she was clearly full of shit. Anyway, when I said I could help some and pulled out my wallet, she said that I could just put gas in her truck. When I said I'd rather not and gave her the $4 that were in my wallet, she looked at me like... "really? That's all you're giving me" and then said, "how about the misses" while pointing to Cindy, "maybe she's got more". And it was at this point I told her "no" and "that was all I was willing to do to help". With that, she just turned away and without even a thank you.
Moral of the story, FUCK the Christmas sprit and from here on out, ALL panhandlers can go fuck themselves