So I helped run a stall at the Sustainable Living Festival today. Part of my duties involved handing out fliers. The hitch was that I felt like One Of Those Manipulative People With Clipboards who say, "Hi! Do you care about animals?" and I am averse to those people and will even go around the block to avoid talking to them. Also maybe I felt that way because people were trying to avoid talking to me: ouch. Reader: I needed a new thing.
I looked for something to say that was true but exercised no moral pressure, so as not to be One Of Those People. I decided to go with, "Would you like some brightly-coloured paper? It is very brightly coloured." Reader: it worked a treat. People are apparently suckers for brightly-coloured paper when you put it plain and simple like that, and if you think about it why would anyone not be? It is very brightly coloured, after all.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Manipulative People With Clipboards
Posted by michael pulsford at 11:31 PM
Labels: being One Of Those People, humans, paper, Those People