Pennies from heaven

Pennies from heaven or accidentally falling out of a wallet. Yesterday, as I stood in line waiting for my overpriced coffee, a customer opened her wallet accidentally spilling all of her change. Scattered. What a PITA for her, right? My reaction, get down on the floor along with her and help gather the coins. What was the reaction of the customer who was directly ahead of me? To kind of halfheartedly sweep a couple of coins that bounced near her shoe over in the girl's general direction with her foot.

I wondered if the foot girl thought it was okay not to help simply because I was already getting my knees dirty? Or, did she halfheartedly sweep the coins because it would be the kind thing to do ... but she didn't really want help.

Thoughts that flitted through my head during this:

when I first swooped down to help, I wondered what the reaction would be if I had gathered up the coins only to shove them into my own pocket

I could swear feeling the foot girl's eyes trepanning the top of my skull from her observation post above us

If the coin girl is the type to help out a stranger no matter how minute the instance or if this simple action would be noted

Of course, my observances of foot girl is colored by my point of view, experiences etc and I may well be possibly well off the mark...