# Dollar

Originally published: 2017-05-20
Canonical URL: /2017/May/dollar-2/

[(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/05/change/)

Hey. Just so you know.

Today while I was walking to the store to procrastinate from writing a big autobiographical post for my new [("new")](http://unremediatedgender.space/2016/Sep/apophenia/) secret [("secret")](http://unremediatedgender.space/) blog, a woman asked me if she could borrow a dollar, and I said, "Sorry, not today," and it wasn't until _afterward_ that the thought even _occurred_ to me that I might have responded by opening up a negotiation about interest rates, or that my saying "not today" could be construed as meaning that I might lend her a dollar on some future day, even though it seemed unlikely that the woman and I would meet again and _remember_ that we were meeting again.

So, I'm not inhuman.

Although, as far as humanity goes, it is _interesting to note_ that in [that earlier-blogged incident](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/05/change/) when I _was_ inhuman, the person asking for money ended up with three dollars, and this time, she ended up with none.

But you shouldn't exonerate me yet. While leaving the store, I overheard a canvasser saying that he was helping the Southern Poverty Law Center fight descrimination, and I didn't resist the urge to look over my shoulder and say, "Discrimination is _Bayesian reasoning_ applied to human beings!"

But not loud enough for anyone to take notice. So, there's that.