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Roving gangs of Greenpeace canvassers

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.


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They were all around Causeway Street and Canal Street on Tuesday… they seemed to be skirting the perimeter of the Garden and North Station.

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If you feel the need to say anything at all, "I'm not interested" should be sufficient.

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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.

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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'.

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