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Trying to re-sell kindness? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

She's trying to resale a spur of the moment gift. She doesn't sound like someone who's got things together. Wouldn't the socially acceptable thing to do would be to decline the gift or accept the shoes and regift them / donate them? Idk the response, "let me get cash for those." isn't a great look. That's why the lady snatched them back.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You ever read that Christmas story about the poor couple that sells things that are important to them to get something nice for the other?

    Now imagine selling a random gift to get money to use on commodities like food, rent, or utilities.

    We can't know what that person needed the money for. While overall I agree with the reaction of the poster, I can get off my high horse long enough to acknowledge we don't know the whole situation or the economic position of the family.

    Maybe she would buy smokes, maybe she'd pay rent. We don't know.

    As an anecdote from my childhood, we were poor. My parents often spent what little they had to get nice things for me and my sister. It came at a detriment to our home. We had much of what we wanted, but we lacked what we needed. As an adult now I would invest in the environment first.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    an important part of the story above is her saying that she intends to sell those immediately

    if i got a very expensive gift when i needed money i'd first yk, think about it a bit. most likely i'd feel guilty selling said gift, and i 100% would not brag about it to the person who gave it to me

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I'm not arguing the status of the recevier. I'm questioning someone who's response to a gift is immediately the monetary outcome. Your example was them selling things that were important to them. This person had not even full received the gift and to the face of the person giving the gift, sad something so socially unacceptable the gift was taken back. Do you think the gift would have been taken back if the giver thought the gift would provide a much needed meal? The tone of the tweet would leave anyone to thing the giver didn't hold a high opion of the other woman if she was willing to take them back.

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