Pennies and value Judgements

The other day I was talking to a young man in a convenience store about the benefits and reasons behind my plans to rid the American people of the penny curse.
This particular young man said that pennies were invaluable in measuring the stature of a man. What I queried? He explained his theory that you can judge a man by how he deals with pennies. Basically his theory was that there are two kinds of people those who collect pennies (re: pick them up) and those who leave them in the give a penny dishes. Those who leave them are generous and those who collect them are cheap and miserly."
"or broke", I added as He continued "So fess up which are you?" he asked. I replied with all honesty, "that I pick up the pennies from the ground and leave them in the dishes..."