Mrs. Plony – my reaction would have been, “I guess he doesn’t need the money as badly as I do. I would have been happy to get a quarter.”
and
I suppose the man last night figured that if all we could give was 25 cents, then we needed it more than him.
Nah. He was making the point that giving a quarter is not really helpful when someone needs $40,000 for medical or chasunah expenses.
Rudely, but that’s his point.
He’s still wrong for turning it down and not taking it and saying “thank you”, but that’s where the frustration comes from, I imagine.