Cash or Charge for "Charity"?

So a few weeks back I was walking home with some friends from a nice Thursday night out. This woman starts following us on the way home.. and we hear "excuse me! excuse me!" we stop and turn around to see who she was speaking to and it turns out, it was us. She is a scraggly older woman and she starts telling us how she is collecting donations for a charity. As someone who works for a 5013c I wanted to start asking her about her development plan and mission statement, but I am pretty sure she was her own nonprofit organization, funding the smell of alcohol on her breathe, but hey, I don’t judge.

So the woman goes on to tell us more about her charity, and how she is collecting donations and would like us to make a donation. Her “charity” aka herself would like a donation. When we told her we didn’t have cash, she responded  "I take charge!"" Her response was so quick I burst out laughing. Now this was original. Next thing I expected was for her to hand out her personal donation envelope.

OMG.. that is a new one. I take charge. Looks like you cant just say “I don’t have cash anymore”…