A Missed Opportunity

He was standing mid block on 10th Street, near the shoe repair shop. As I hurried by, he said, ‘Don’t you have some money for a guy to get something to eat’. It was about 12:30 pm. I had no change, and was too ______ to give him an unbroken $20. But what I could have done, I did hesitate further along, I did look back, I did think seriously about it, what I could have done is invited him to the restaurant on the corner and given them the $20 and asked them to give him whatever he wanted for that amount. I still don’t know why I didn’t.