Heat. Typical day. With his wife and a year old we walked around the city. In order to reduce body temperature, from a sultry evening, we decided to drop into a grocery store for ice cream. A grocery store called "Magnet" was located in a small shopping center. At the entrance, there was a box with a collection of money, an ordinary box that stands everywhere, in crowded places. I developed "blindness" on them. That is, I don’t pay attention to posters with requests for donations and boxes for money.
Going out to the vestibule of the trading floor, I stood with the baby next to this box, while waiting for my spouse who was late at the checkout. Without hesitation, I decided to allocate 50 rubles from my pocket for a good cause.
At that moment I caught myself thinking that I never put money in such boxes. For some reason I do not believe in the sincerity and piety of the collectors, that they give all the money to sick children.
Even at the entrance to the store, I noticed that someone did not regret it and put 500 rubles in a box, donating not a small amount, according to our local standards.
Apparently psychology has worked, someone donates a lot of money, and why I am worse. Therefore, a small change fell out of my pocket, into this box.
But the saddest thing is, from that moment on, I generally cease to believe in the disinterestedness and honesty of people. The fact is that the 500 ruble bill among the pile of money was fake, I noticed this while looking at the bills and change through the transparent walls of the box. She served in order to attract attention and shell out thinking people like me. Be careful friends, a lot of scammers make money on compassionate people ...
Better donate money to an animal shelter, as I usually do. And the state should think about people, about its people.