You discover you can read minds and influence thought, do you use the ability?

We know this is hypothetical, but try to imagine it. You are out hiking way from the city and a meteor shower starts, and you stop to watch. Then before you know it a baseball size meteor land near you and spews its dust all over you before you could dodge out of the way. All seems normal, you were not hurt just a little dusty. Then you notice 5 days before a full Moon, the day of the full Moon, and 5 days after that at sunset you have the ability to read people’s minds, you know what they are thinking, and furthermore you can influence their thought. If you thought “Man I wish this guy would go back and do some more shopping I am in a hurry and don’t want to wait in line” the guy would actually do it! Or “I wish she/he would give me her/his number”, and they do it. It is the strongest at sunset and diminishes steadily over the next 2 hours after sunset, but only near the full Moon. Would you use an ability like that, and if so how? Would you do all you could not to use it. Would you trust telling anyone that you had it even giving them a demonstration to prove it? If you told anyone do you believe they would avoid you around time of a full Moon?