Bijonbo's Generosity

After work the next evening, Sancho Panza took Bijonbo out to see some sites and have some supper. They went to Centro de la Ciudad Toluca to visit the Plaza Los Portales. Merchants were selling their wares, mariachi bands were playing their songs, and dancers were dancing their dances. They came upon a woman who was asking for handouts.

“We must help her,” Bijonbo said to Sancho Panza.

“No, it is not a good idea. I see her here all the time.”

Bijonbo pulled out his wallet. Just then a boy ran out from behind her, grabbed Bijonbo’s wallet, and took off with it. They started after him but he was too quick. Just as he darted out of view he flipped the wallet up in the air behind him. Bijonbo ran to the wallet, picked it up, and found everything intact -- but all the cash was gone.

“Oh well, it’s only a few dollars lost. They must really need the money,” Bijonbo said.

Sancho Panza was furious. “I told you so!”
Then quoting Don Quixote verbatim, Bijonbo said: “Imbecile! It is not the responsibility of knights to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained, and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succor them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds. I say whoever thinks this is wrong knows little of the matter of chivalry and lies like a lowborn whoreson and will be taught this by my sword at greater length.”