Not being able to walk through a mall without some form of sales. Promotion or marketing person trying to bail me up.
I understand it's their job But FFS if I am on my phone or even pretending to be on my phone whilst walking at pace then "No, you can't take a minute of my time complete stranger who wants me to buy or donate" :roll:
I enjoy short sharp conversations with the ones that jump out in front of me and say "hey sir! Can I as you a quick question"?
By responding with, "you just did" and keeping on strolling, it seems to throw them for a second and gives me a chance to get away [emoji38]
One thing that I have noticed recently is a fairly well known local charity, who I'm certain do great things with the funding they get, have started to appear in the city and shopping centres collecting. What sh1ts me is that the people doing the collecting look like they are bored to tears (no doubt it would be) but I highly doubt they would give the time of day to the people they are collecting for, just looks bad for the charity IMHO. Maybe I'm just getting old and judgemental!
While I have the floor, I'll also add Warnies cricket commentary is Sh1tting me at the moment too, especially the Jaffa and Cherry comments to describe the good deliveries.
My trick when I'm walking in the shops with my junior Jases is to pretend to be really angry with them... both of the boys know the act so they'll be looking very sad at the floor and I'll be saying things like "that was not OK", "how dare you speak to your brother like that" etc etc... just loud enough for the salesman/woman to not want to get involved...
Perfect... [emoji23]