"You Got 3 Bills?"

This story maybe on the petty side, but its worth sharing. The whole nature and background of the ride and the ending really rubbed me wrong today on a fundemental level. Im all about charity and giving to people in need but, this one as small as it was, really shows on so many levels how flawed we are in the U.S. The day was slow. Not many rides and a bunch of cancelations thanks to closed roads and traffic. I make it up to Mason a very wealthy side of town. The passenger I drove 18 minutes to pick up lived in a nice house. Nicer than anything around my area. Mikey is a tall, bushy black bearded fellow. My first thought with his short hair under his baseball hat was that he had been a trucker. No I was wrong, well he siad yes at one point but it was hard to understand him becuase he had the street slang. He talked about how he had heart problems after getting his 1st "Fiffer" shot,(exactly how he said it) yup it wasn't the salt water, he had the real thing and had to go on disability becuase of it. The more shots a person gets it becomes like a lottery the more chances of winning. He had asked if I had taken it. "No, my friend died when it first hit the market, blood clot heart attack." Because of that and how politized it had become, With Biden saying during his campaign, how he didn't trust the shot as well as Camel Harris, because it was under Trumps watch. Those two reasons is why I would never ever get one. A shot that inoculates you from a illness blocks the illness. Ive known many people who have gotten the shot and they have become ill with Corona. I caught Corona from a vaxd person. Otherwise I doubt I would had ever expirenced it even though I was swimming in the public shopping for people 12 hours a day 6 days a week for 2 years prior. He was my third person with Heart problems going to Therapy or a Heart specialist that afternoon. All of them where in thier 40's. 3 out of 4 rides all in a row spaced by time. The conversation was street style with him making a request. Usually im very easy going and have no problem fullfilling such a reguest. He asked to stop at a store on the way to the hospital.... I said"Ok" usually if a drive wants to get paid for this time they need the rider to add a stop otherwise its 4$ of charity work. I stopped at a store. A gas station. He then asked if he could have 3$ to buy ciggerettes. " Do you have 3 Bills?" No. "How about you come in and use your card?" No. I just put 500$ into my car. I was pretty mad at this point and should had been vocal about it. "Yeah its a nasty habbit" I gave him 4 qaurters. As he walked in he asked a few people for money, they all denied him. A few minutes latter he came out with a package of Gum. I thought about giving him a bad rating, and often times i accept the ride so fast I don't see the customers rating. If this is a habbit of his that obviously works most times, he butter ups his driver with compliments, and then hits them up for 3 bills. and a free stop. I didn't give him a bad rating. I so wanted to. Ive had homeless people in my car going on rides, not even they asked for money. But next time I might ask him for 5$.