Save Our Hair!
I’m walking out of the grocery store this afternoon when a guy asks me if I’d like to donate toward “battered women, orphans, and men with receding hair lines.” I don’t know, it was something like that.
Anyway, I asked him if he had any paperwork I could look at to learn about what they do (at least I didn’t just blow him off). He proceeds to turn his TV tray toward me so I can see the sign taped to it reading: “Donate toward battered women, orphans, and (whatever it was)!” as if that was his “brochure.” I apologized and told him I didn’t feel comfortable handing my money out if I didn’t know what they were up to.
I decided this is my new approach. Not because I don’t want to give away our money. I just don’t want to give away our money to every guy in a white suit with a coffee can standing outside of Food Maxx who says it’s for a “good cause.” It’s a marketing issue. If they can tell me a bit about who they are and what they do, I’ll be more than happy to listen and consider. Please, Strange People Asking For Money, stop handing me spur-of-the-moment donation decisions when I don’t know you.
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