I truly admire a certain friend who can chit-chat on a friendly basis with a street person.

A few months ago I was with a co-worker in the centre of a foreign capital, waiting for some other people, and some guy approached us offering to sell us some marijuana. I told him “I quitted smoking five years ago” and we kept talking about that for about half a minute before he left.

My co-worker was very annoyed that I didn't just ignore the guy.

When a collector for some ineffective charity comes up to me, I solicit him, in a friendly way, to give money to my favorite charity before he has a chance to ask. One I got 1 NIS this way, so I felt obliged to give him a (different) shekel.

That is freakin' awesome.