ATM-er

Why are you always paying?Why are you always helping?Why does someone else's slight frown trigger your time, money, energy, and dignity to auto-dispense?

Because you've tested into ATM-er — the most easily-skimmed card in humanity's emotional financial system.You aren't just kind — you're kind without a PIN.You aren't just soft-hearted — you're soft enough to be QR-scanned from across the room.

Someone says "this is annoying"; you've already started planning a solution for them.Someone says "forget it"; you've already pulled an all-nighter calculating yourself into the equation.You're like an ATM left out in the rain, screen still reading "welcome," the back covered in "insufficient balance" stickers.

Until one day you finally notice — everyone who came to withdraw has left, only you remain, beeping a low-battery warning.