Relief for Haiti

So Helen and I have been sitting outside the cafeteria on campus to help raise money for Haitian relief and have gotten a myriad of responses. Among the regulars are "I've already donated" and "I don't have any cash," but there have been some real winners interspersed. "Not right now" is fairly common, obviously connotating that they plan to give at some undisclosed place and time. One of my favorites is "Do you take credit cards?" One passerby actually actually took a Burger King receipt out of his pocket, circled the $20.00 with which he paid for his meal and told us to "Write that down as his donation" all the while disregarding the $12.50 he got in change less than an hour before that any rational individual would assume still sat in his pocket. Some have asked for change for various bills. Others have passed by, ignoring our requests which vary from polite asking to shouting at specific people all the way out of the building. It's odd how people can wear a $300 outfit but not afford to give two bucks to help dying, starving people. But maybe that's just me.