On May 6, 2012, at 3:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: > In fact most annoying of all are professional fundraisers. They are worse > than door to door or telephone solicitors. A couple of charities whose work I > most respect (Medicines sans Frontieres and Amnesty International) use these > shiny faced young people on every downtown street corner. I'm tired of having > guilt thrown in my face every 20 feet or so.
Yeah we had them occasionally. We called them "chuggers" which is short for "charity muggers." Apparently they're on a fairly good commission so if you want to actually support the charity they're representing, it's more beneficial to them if you find a different way to donate. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
