Generosity Misunderstood

The house painter held a neatly folded pastry bag in front of the bearded homeless man. He tried to explain that the bag contained food. The bearded man wanted money so he could buy a donut. He did not understand a bag in his face. The painter was a little frustrated. He had to get to work but his act of kindness was falling into the other's pathology.

It's so simple...eat the damn donut! Another man sits on the same street with his disconnected prosthesis that holds a cup for money. He would know what to do with the donut.

Perhaps the bearded man was a former client of the painter.