Recently I've really come to hate those people who volunteer for charities by blocking the path between my work and the bus interchange. See usually I don't have much against charity people, or even those preachers who stand on the street and try to convince me that I could have a closer relationship with God (like, why would I want that, is he hot? Didn't God impregnate some man's wife in the Bible? So much for no adultery).
Back to topic: I used to think working for charity was an honorable thing: you volunteer your own time in order to make a contribution to society. Except right now they piss me off.
So what exactly have they done to offend me so greatly? Basically by relentlessly following me around when I pretend to not see them, or plainly tell them I'm not interested in talking. I'm just there thinking, "dude have some decency, fuck off! I DON'T want to speak to you!"
Why the hate towards them? Why not just throw them my 2 dollars on the way out? Well you see once upon a time I actually spoke to a few of them, and the stuff they said absolutely disgusted me. "For just 2 dollars a day, you could give a child in Africa an education!" - that wasn't the offensive part. The offensive part was when they told me that I could just skip coffee in the morning to vastly improve some African kid's life, and they rattled on a list of first world privileges I "probably" had. That's so fucking presumptious. I don't even make enough money right now to qualify for taxation, and I have a massive student loan. And here they are wanting me to sign papers to sponsor some kid. I told them I wasn't 21 and terminated the conversation, and they quickly left me alone when they realized they couldn't get money off me.
So what I'm trying to say is, I'm not mad about them asking me for donations, I'm mad that they feel entitled to my money. Look if I give money to a charity it's because I feel bad about those starving people, but it's not my duty to provide a constant sponsorship. These people just have the complete wrong attitude, in my opinion. And look, they probably follow you around and pester you because it works! Because people sign whatever forms to get them to piss off! Except all this forming a line and physically blocking the exit to the mall I work at is just too fucking far. Like, they were doing a nice thing, but now they're worse than those door to door salesmen. I'm like, "you don't get paid to be a pain, so why don't you work for a more respectable charity who doesn't block people at the doors and proceed to follow them around."
Writing this article makes me seem like a giant douche, I'm sure. But it's okay because I'm generally like this, and that's something I don't care to change. I just wish these people would stop wasting my time to talk about random shit, even when I tell them upfront "no I can't donate I'm not 21". Then they're all "let's just talk", but fucking hell do I look like one of those people who are so desperately in need of company that they'd talk to charity people blocking their path? No I'm talking to you because I have to, since you're in my fucking way.
I'd love to be ruder to their face, but I've been taught to have decency in public, unlike them. At some point though, someone is going to witness me being a complete asshole to a charity person, but I assume by then I wouldn't give a shit.
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