When we are driving on the roads and come to an intersection where we must stop, there are vendors and beggars (mostly mothers with babies or very young children) who immediately rush out into the traffic and sell or beg.  They try to get you to buy some of these flowers which are woven into a necklace and they go brown and wilt within a few hours and smell quite bad.  We carry packages of good crackers in our car which we give to them and then skip the flowers.  We were advised by our mission not to give money to these people.