Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : This happened last year but I got reminded it of it recently.

On my commute home from work there are a few homeless individuals who hold signs ‘Anything helps’ ‘God bless’ etc.

One particular drive home I felt like I wanted to help but I NEVER carry cash with me; it’s just not really the world we live in anymore unfortunately. So the only thing I could provide were a few empty soda bottles. (I live in Michigan and in our state bottle returns are 10 cents per.) I rolled down my window and said that I’m sorry I didn’t have cash but I have these you can return? The homeless person took the bottles but just kind of stared at me and didn’t say anything, then I drove off.

AITA? I genuinely wanted to help with what I could do, but in the back of my mind I feel like I just gave the guy a bunch of garbage. :(