When I was teaching, one of the Assistant tech support guys and I were really cool. Any time he was in the building, he'd come to my classroom and if I wasn't busy we'd chop it up. He was a cool dude...
Anyway, he had really bad vision, like he wore glasses, but he'd have to hold his phone directly in front of his face, or look at the computer from like 3 inches away. I'd always joke with him about getting new glasses, and he'd laugh it off and say yeah man. So, fast forward a little ways, his mother dies. And since he was genuinely a good guy, everyone decided to take up money for him. This is when it came out how dude was living, fam was living off minimum wage, and paying child support. He lived in one of those homes, that you'd swear nobody lived in. After that came out, I'd always ask him to hang out, go get a beer or something after work, and I'd look out. So, one day I wanted to do something really nice for him, but I knew if I just tried to give him money he wouldn't take it. So, I went to the local optometrist and got him a coupon for a free eye exam, and glasses up to $300. Put it in an envelope, and dropped it off at the School Board Office for him in his box. This was around Christmas time, so when we came back, sure enough he'd taken it and gotten him 2 pairs of glasses with it.
Later that year, I was helping him set up the computers for SOL testing, and he told me thanks and like daped me up, and I was like "No problem", and he held my had and was like "No, really...thank you". To this day I don't know if he knew or not.