this is why i don't talk to strangers
well today i decided to go to gurnee mills, as i haven't been there for a long time, and as such that is odd for me. but i soon realised why i do not miss it.
i had just visited jeff at oakley and was heading back to my car to go home and spend time with ze puppy (we decided on petey for his name). so as i am walking a random guy asks me to stop, promises he's not hitting on me, and wants to ask me something.
i know how this story usually goes, he needs to sell me something. though he did start it out a bit more clever than most do. he said ( in a much lengthier version than here- this is abridged for your sanity) that he is in a speech class and by talking to random strangers it will help them learn social speaking skills. ok, i get that. "now what are you selling me", i ask. turns out he is selling magazine subscriptions in order to get points to go on a trip to acapulco.
ok, sincerely uninterested, but let's listen to his rant a little longer.
one of my former coworkers walks by and we start talking about pac sun, then he mentions that he knows the other girl we are talking about, as he gave her the same advertisement at hawthorne mall. so i said i wasn't interested in buying anything today, blahblahblah. then he decides to take a different angle which i absolutely loathe.
he goes on to tell me that if i don't want to spend $20 right now, i can give him a check and he'll hold it for a couple weeks till i have money in the account. i said that i have to leave and then he says that if i don't want a magazine for myself, i can buy a subscription for a child with cancer. i had to politely turn him down, as i have absolutely no real money right now. then he said "so you seriously won't have 20 bucks in two weeks? come on. i know you're not poor enough to be living under a bridge or anything".
at this point i have had it and tell him i don't have money cause i have lots of bills to which he replies "but 20 bucks? i can loan you a few if it's that big of a deal". then he goes on: "i can't believe you turned down the one for the cancer kids. you're like the first person ever to turn that down. seriously, you can't afford $20 for a kid with cancer?" i then told him that i sponsor a dog at an animal shelter which is where some of my money goes every month, but it's just not the same as him getting his trip to acapulco, i guess.
so i start walking back to the parking lot, severely annoyed that some stranger asked me for money so he can go to acapulo, while masking it as a way to help sick kids.
i can go donate $20 to the make-a-wish foundation whenever i please. at least i know where my hard earned cash is going, since, you know, i make so much of it.
i seriously hate that mall.
i had just visited jeff at oakley and was heading back to my car to go home and spend time with ze puppy (we decided on petey for his name). so as i am walking a random guy asks me to stop, promises he's not hitting on me, and wants to ask me something.
i know how this story usually goes, he needs to sell me something. though he did start it out a bit more clever than most do. he said ( in a much lengthier version than here- this is abridged for your sanity) that he is in a speech class and by talking to random strangers it will help them learn social speaking skills. ok, i get that. "now what are you selling me", i ask. turns out he is selling magazine subscriptions in order to get points to go on a trip to acapulco.
ok, sincerely uninterested, but let's listen to his rant a little longer.
one of my former coworkers walks by and we start talking about pac sun, then he mentions that he knows the other girl we are talking about, as he gave her the same advertisement at hawthorne mall. so i said i wasn't interested in buying anything today, blahblahblah. then he decides to take a different angle which i absolutely loathe.
he goes on to tell me that if i don't want to spend $20 right now, i can give him a check and he'll hold it for a couple weeks till i have money in the account. i said that i have to leave and then he says that if i don't want a magazine for myself, i can buy a subscription for a child with cancer. i had to politely turn him down, as i have absolutely no real money right now. then he said "so you seriously won't have 20 bucks in two weeks? come on. i know you're not poor enough to be living under a bridge or anything".
at this point i have had it and tell him i don't have money cause i have lots of bills to which he replies "but 20 bucks? i can loan you a few if it's that big of a deal". then he goes on: "i can't believe you turned down the one for the cancer kids. you're like the first person ever to turn that down. seriously, you can't afford $20 for a kid with cancer?" i then told him that i sponsor a dog at an animal shelter which is where some of my money goes every month, but it's just not the same as him getting his trip to acapulco, i guess.
so i start walking back to the parking lot, severely annoyed that some stranger asked me for money so he can go to acapulo, while masking it as a way to help sick kids.
i can go donate $20 to the make-a-wish foundation whenever i please. at least i know where my hard earned cash is going, since, you know, i make so much of it.
i seriously hate that mall.