Don't make me throw something at you
I'm not sure if it's like this in your country, but in South Africa there are people who stand at almost every intersection to a) beg, b) sell something, or c) hand out flyers. It's particularly tricky when all three are at an intersection and I am constantly paranoid that I am going to hit someone someday.
Anyway.
You can buy almost anything at an intersection. Art, curios, sunshades, sunglasses, bags, toys, Christmas lights, stationery, world maps, anatomy charts, illegal DVDs, tea towels, cell phone chargers … anything.
I'm fine with that. People are trying to make a living.
What really bugs me are the kind of flyers that are being handed out. (If my window is open I feel obliged to take one, because I feel sorry for the person standing in the hot sun all day. I should know better.) In the last week I have received three flyers advertising pretty much the same thing, and each flyer has made me want to scrunch it up and throw it back at the person who gave it to me. Except that would be littering.
There are a lot of traditional healers here who promise cures and solutions to everything from communicating with the dead to getting back a lost lover to improving one's sex life. The wording on the flyers is so terrible that reading it is itself a form of entertainment. Usually.
Lately, some people have taken to including diagrams on the flyers - and these are the ones that make me angry. I don't need to see drawings of different-sized penises, thank you very much.
So, to the people handing out flyers like these: don't glare at me when I scrunch it up and drop it on the floor of my car. Yes, it's going in the bin as soon as I get home. And it is your fault I won't be accepting any flyers from anyone in the future, ever, even for innocuous things like furniture or blinds.
Anyway.
You can buy almost anything at an intersection. Art, curios, sunshades, sunglasses, bags, toys, Christmas lights, stationery, world maps, anatomy charts, illegal DVDs, tea towels, cell phone chargers … anything.
I'm fine with that. People are trying to make a living.
What really bugs me are the kind of flyers that are being handed out. (If my window is open I feel obliged to take one, because I feel sorry for the person standing in the hot sun all day. I should know better.) In the last week I have received three flyers advertising pretty much the same thing, and each flyer has made me want to scrunch it up and throw it back at the person who gave it to me. Except that would be littering.
There are a lot of traditional healers here who promise cures and solutions to everything from communicating with the dead to getting back a lost lover to improving one's sex life. The wording on the flyers is so terrible that reading it is itself a form of entertainment. Usually.
Lately, some people have taken to including diagrams on the flyers - and these are the ones that make me angry. I don't need to see drawings of different-sized penises, thank you very much.
So, to the people handing out flyers like these: don't glare at me when I scrunch it up and drop it on the floor of my car. Yes, it's going in the bin as soon as I get home. And it is your fault I won't be accepting any flyers from anyone in the future, ever, even for innocuous things like furniture or blinds.