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Roving gangs of Greenpeace canvassers
By adamg on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 11:11pm
Moxie admires their moxie, but needs a breather from the earnest young kids with the clipboards:
... OK, the summer canvassers from Greenpeace and Save the Children are bringing it on a little too hard. They are EVERYWHERE. If I leave the building at lunch, they corner me on Boylston. Tonight I got off the T at Kendall and there were 5 young, well-meaning people from Greenpeace in matching blue shirts lining Main Street, earnestly trying to get more signatures. Or maybe it's members. I don't know because I usually just tell them that I've signed it already so I can keep going. ...
Earlier:
Somebody finally snaps when approached by a Greenpeace kid.
The Greenpeace kids could learn something from the bustling bums of Boylston Street.
Free tagging:
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Comments
They ARE everywhere
They were all around Causeway Street and Canal Street on Tuesday… they seemed to be skirting the perimeter of the Garden and North Station.
Why lie to them?
If you feel the need to say anything at all, "I'm not interested" should be sufficient.
seconded
They are human beings after all. Give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they can politely accept a "no thanks." Then if they persist, you might respond in kind, but don't assume they're evil vultures without any basis. Also, most are students or recent grads who needed a job. They're just trying to do what their employer asks.
They got me too
I was walking my bike down Boyleston yesterday, when one of them sees me and exclaims, 'He MUST be an environmentalist!' and proceeds to ask me if I want to save the planet. I suppose it was my somewhat hippyish appearance at the time (unshaved, shorts, birkenstocks on a Wednesday afternoon), but what the hell?
I told him, 'I can't save the planet today, but I'll try tomorrow'.