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I have a set routine (most of the time) when I go out to do my food shopping in the town. I know what shops I'm going into, and mostly what route I'll be taking to get to each of them.
Back home, you can't get very far without there being someone doing market research of some sort.
Anyway, back to here.
Recently whenever I'm in town there are people waiting with clipboards down one stretch of the road I go down. First it was some guy working for one of those accident legal companies that get people compensation for stuff, he kept on trying to find out if anything I've done in the past 3 years could get me compensation, which almost made me miss getting a charlies angels DVD as it was near closing time.
In the past month however the market researchers have been seemingly replaced by the charity people, being over the age of 18 I seem to be a target for them.
You can spot from a distance, they're the ones people ignore as they pass them. (this is going somewhere)
I pretty much always stop if one of them says something to me (not that I won't stop if its a guy), they do their talk and I listen and it ends up with me saying I can't contribute at the moment, but in the future I would be interested, I get the web address off of them and they let me continue with my shopping.
Friday afternoon I'd changed my pattern slightly and bought my magazines first, then continuing down the road I see one guy trying to get the attention of passers by, I figure the other one must be taking the other main road which joins this road.
I continue walking thinking about stuff and the guy calls out "woolworths" so I stop and turn towards him (I was carrying a woolworths bag), he asks my age, presumably to check if I am over 18.
Then he says "We're looking for cocaine dealers"
so I smile and he says "so you're interested then, I'm just joking"
I was waiting for the speach, but instead I got this...
"I'm trying to raise money for (I won't say what charity) and we're selling these magazines in order to do this, now the magazines are rubbish, they try, but they're not that good, but if you could but one it would be a great help."
Knowing that these things cost £3 each, I explained that I pay for everything by card and so I don't carry cash around with me, said if I had the cash I would get one.
He said "at least you had the decency to stop"
It was a different approach, from what usually happens and was funny (for me it was).
I usually stop because the few minutes that it takes isn't much out of my time and I usually learn something from most of them ( the charity ones anyway).
I know some people find them a nuisance (the market researchers "I'm not trying to sell you anything")
I was just wondering what peoples think about them, or if anyone has any amusing or interesting stories about them.
Oh and I appologise if the anecdote is lame (for anyone thats read this far).
Back home, you can't get very far without there being someone doing market research of some sort.
Anyway, back to here.
Recently whenever I'm in town there are people waiting with clipboards down one stretch of the road I go down. First it was some guy working for one of those accident legal companies that get people compensation for stuff, he kept on trying to find out if anything I've done in the past 3 years could get me compensation, which almost made me miss getting a charlies angels DVD as it was near closing time.
In the past month however the market researchers have been seemingly replaced by the charity people, being over the age of 18 I seem to be a target for them.
You can spot from a distance, they're the ones people ignore as they pass them. (this is going somewhere)
I pretty much always stop if one of them says something to me (not that I won't stop if its a guy), they do their talk and I listen and it ends up with me saying I can't contribute at the moment, but in the future I would be interested, I get the web address off of them and they let me continue with my shopping.
Friday afternoon I'd changed my pattern slightly and bought my magazines first, then continuing down the road I see one guy trying to get the attention of passers by, I figure the other one must be taking the other main road which joins this road.
I continue walking thinking about stuff and the guy calls out "woolworths" so I stop and turn towards him (I was carrying a woolworths bag), he asks my age, presumably to check if I am over 18.
Then he says "We're looking for cocaine dealers"
so I smile and he says "so you're interested then, I'm just joking"
I was waiting for the speach, but instead I got this...
"I'm trying to raise money for (I won't say what charity) and we're selling these magazines in order to do this, now the magazines are rubbish, they try, but they're not that good, but if you could but one it would be a great help."
Knowing that these things cost £3 each, I explained that I pay for everything by card and so I don't carry cash around with me, said if I had the cash I would get one.
He said "at least you had the decency to stop"
It was a different approach, from what usually happens and was funny (for me it was).
I usually stop because the few minutes that it takes isn't much out of my time and I usually learn something from most of them ( the charity ones anyway).
I know some people find them a nuisance (the market researchers "I'm not trying to sell you anything")
I was just wondering what peoples think about them, or if anyone has any amusing or interesting stories about them.
Oh and I appologise if the anecdote is lame (for anyone thats read this far).
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I live in westbury.
Mr. No shoes wrote:
> Hey, i live in Bristol too, what part you live in?
Filton
> Hey, i live in Bristol too, what part you live in?
Filton
and i was in the town center at bristol yesterday too, weird
Hey, i live in Bristol too, what part you live in?
Yesterday while down bristol town centre, me and my mate were walking along when this group surrounded us with petitions. My mate signed it jut to get away and i had to barge myself out. Turns out, they wanted to abolish exams in this country.
UTTERLY STUPID!
Only those who failed their exams would agree with it.
UTTERLY STUPID!
Only those who failed their exams would agree with it.
Because i'm in cadets, we used to have to collect for an RAF wings appeal. We used to have to knock on peoples doors and ask for money, it was quite embarrasing, especially as the cadets have £15,000,000 shared out between every squadron in the uk each year. I remember one time when we were on a navigating exercise and we were wearing DPM's (combat camo's) and a man starting being abusive to one of the cadets about the war in Iraq. I thought this was quite bad because she didn't look any older than 16, and wouldn't be responsible for what happened anyway.
Mr. No shoes
Mr. No shoes
I know what u mean u in ur happy boozed up state!!! Opens a bottle of sparkly to celebrate the invention of alcohol+ ability to legally operate computers whilst using alcohol...
tigamilla wrote:
> What have I said to deserve such a threat?? :(
listen milla dude, I've had a skin-full and anything I say is probably complete crap, just take it wi'a pincha'salt. hey hey :D
> What have I said to deserve such a threat?? :(
listen milla dude, I've had a skin-full and anything I say is probably complete crap, just take it wi'a pincha'salt. hey hey :D
What have I said to deserve such a threat?? :(
tigamilla don't make me open a can of woopass .... :D
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