How not to make donations

One Sunday not long ago, I brought Domu to Mass.  When the time for collection came, I found out that I had forgotten to bring any paper bills -- all I had was a single one dollar coin.  Situations like this are  embarassing, especially during those days when the collectors happen to be the teens we teach at catechism class. Oh, look teacher Trump is donating a whole dollar!  Wow!  A Guiness record!

So I passed the coin to Domu.  Hopefully he knows enough to be discreet when dropping donations into the collection bag.

Wishful thinking.

As the collector passed by our pew, she starts angling the bag towards us, but way too soon Domu tosses the coin at the bag like a basketball player attempting a 3-pointer...and failing to hit anything. 

The coin misses the bag, falls on the marble floor with its distinct '1-dollar-donation-from-a-cheapskate' CLINK!, then the rules of physics kicks in and rolls the coin under other pews to the spot where it is hardest to reach.

People all around started looking and bending trying to look for our super-generous donation.