Can’t Give Away Free Movie Ticket

My cable provider, Cablevision, owns Clearview Cinemas and offers their premium customers two free tickets to any movie at a Clearview movie theater every Tuesday. Free Movie Tuesday is a wonderful day of the week where my wife and I often see a free flick after work. An odd thing happened last week when we went to see “There Will Be Blood.” We were with a friend who also had his benefit but his wife couldn’t make it. So we had 4 tickets but only 3 people. We figured we’d find someone on line for the same movie and give away the ticket. The odd thing was that we couldn’t give it away. Every person we approached and asked is they were seeing the same movie gave us that look you might give someone who doesn’t stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance. That look that what I was doing was just plain wrong. They obviously thought I was trying to sell an extra ticket. After explaining myself I was greeted with slightly nicer faces, but I didn’t enjoy the quick judgment of scalping. At some point I just started announcing a free ticket and I still couldn’t get a bite. I ended up keeping the ticket in my pocket during the movie. Can’t someone try to do something nice without asking for anything in return?