Enough is enough. Is there no place safe from people asking me for money? From the “Would you like to support ______” and “Would you like to buy a ticket in support of _________?”Oh and let’s not forget the gangs of youths that collect near a table at the exits of department stores and grocery stores asking for our money… now there’s a new one at stores: “Would you like me to round that total up to the nearest dollar to support _______?” I work hard for my money. If I wanted to throw money away, don’t you think I would at least buy something with it? These charities are getting to be too many and too demanding. We need a month where no charity is allowed to harrass us for our change. —Get Out of My Damn Pockets
This article appears in Jan 12-18, 2012.
They are not too demanding ….. they are asking and we are saying NO!
Right. They should give up trying to raise money so they’re able to do stuff, just so as to not compell you to ignore them or tell them “no, thanks”.
You’re a real fucking prince, OB.
Wpaul
Thanks for your 2 cents worth, OB. (BWAHH-HA-HA-HA-HA! See what I did there? *snicker* *chortle*…..ahhhhh forget it)
for the little money that you do have millions have a lot less then you. Show some compassion and give them a dollar.
This has been going on for decades and will continue to do so. If you don’t like it, either go somewhere else or just ignore them. It’s not a big deal.
I don’t really see how saying “no thanks” is such a hardship.
I feel bad for the cashiers that have to ask that question over and over and over again in the run of a day.
I’m sure for every one person that says “OK”, there’s probably at least 2 or 3 people that blow up at them, much like the OB is.
PK is right though, a simple “No thanks” is a sufficient answer.
OB, save your money. If you give it to those people, you likely WILL NOT be given a tax receipt. If you do need to donate money (for income taxes purposes), donate to a legally recognized charity that will issue you proper receipts. I just ignore everyone else that asks me for money.
I agree it is a nuisance. Every single activity I sign my children up for, the organization sends home these various tickets for raffles or ridiculous other prizes that I should (apparently) bring in to work and have my co workers subsidize my childrens activities? I want to pay the full cost of the activity my children are involved in instead of asking strangers to support them. Just tell me how much and I will pay for it. I can’t stand these idiots who think everyone else should pay for their children to participate in these extra curricular activities.
I give to organizations that save lives, and those canvas respectably most of the time, not in grocery stores.
This has little to do with the charity, from the corporations’ perspective – it is just a nice big fat tax break for them.
Fuck you corporations. If I make donations it will be from me, and you will pay every goddamn cent of your taxes! good one OB
I could be wrong here, but doesn’t the donation have to exceed $10 before a receipt is issued anyway?
So, dartmouthy has it right. The company collects your spare change, then makes a donation to the charity, who then issues a tax receipt…to the company that collected your spare change en masse.
*yawn*
I tells ya, the first person to be able to mass produce a snazzy, decently attractive button or sticker or something that says to the effect, “No thanks, I support my own charity” could make a fortune.
oddly enough.
then you won’t have to take all that hard time and effort vocalizing those horrific words…
you can simply point.
Hopefully lifting a finger isn’t also too stressful for you as well…..
Vastie, if you don’t put your 2 cents in, how are you going to get change?
Wait. I put 2 cents in and I STILL get change back??? Humph! Wow. Nice to know my opinion is worth SOOOOOO much here. ;P
Alright. I admit it. The whole “Thanks for your 2 cents” schtick was a bad joke, Xeno. lol I had a rough morning lol
Oh vastie. You remind me SO MUCH of someone I used to know.
Dartmouthy — you’re 100% right! AND on top of getting a big fat tax break, they use some of the funds to administer the charities so they’re not out any costs PLUS they get to use it as PR “oh look how socially conscious we are! Look how much we care!”
Always donate to the source, and skip the middle man.
guess what o.p., you have found the one place where you are safe. yep, right here at the bitch board. there will be no one asking you for cash, no one bumming you for the time of day. just a lot of bitching and fun. make yourself to hoe, keep up your hoofs, and have a good laugh, with the rest of us crazy motherfuckers. RIGHT GANG?
Do I remind you in a good way or a bad way, PK? I’m not going to come home to find boiled bunny on my stove or anything, am I??? 😛
In a good way, vastie. 🙂
You remind me of all his best qualities (you’re nothing like his bad qualities).
So no, no boiled bunny and you won’t have to shoot me in the shower! (10 points if you get that reference).
Oh, doooo fuck off.
Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat….
and place it into the frying pan…
http://chrisleavins.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83…
mmmmm…. rabbit fricot.
I agree that it can get annoying, but if you don’t want to give, just say no. I felt bad the first few times but now I just treat them the same as beggars asking for money.. I shake my head and say a long, “Noooo”. I don’t feel bad about it anymore. -_-
Vastie, you remind me of someone, too— guy named Yost. (I used to call him Yostie, which is why I asked to append your handle…)
We used to chant “Yost’s the Most on the Eastern Coast!”
I keep trying to think of things that rhyme with Vast…
Mast , blast, Gormenghast, plaster cast, Conde Nast, …
Right. Or pastie, nasty, fantastie…
☺
Though I think these sound more like a limerick…
“I just ignore everyone else that asks me for money.”
What about the male hookers and your meth dealers?
Charities don’t bother me much, but those “twirlettes” or some other sports team bagging my groceries and asking for donations pisses me off. I went to the grocery store and forgot to get sandwich bags for my lunch, I went to a closer store to get them, at the cashier some kid asked if I needed help bagging my one item for his sports team. Really? All the other checkouts and he asks the guy with one fucking item? If I donated, I would have had to double my purchase price to make it worth his while. So I said “get outa here you stupid kid” then I kicked him!!
Give or don’t give OP, those are your choices.
I don’t have a problem with being asked … provided it’s in the form of a respectful request; and I don’t have a problem with saying no … free of guilt. OB, they only get into your pockets if you allow them to.
As I said on a similar bitch no so long ago … what annoys me is when the request comes with an expectation that I give. That is not cool.
There once was an old salt named Avast
Who used to work all his days up the mast
He untied the wrong hitch
And screamed, “Son of a Bitch!”
And must now spend 9 months in a body cast.
It’s the best I can do for first thing in the morning. Jesus, I haven’t even had me coffee yet.
There vas Hero of Socialist Labour named Serge.
Could not control sexual urge.
He made unvanted pass
at Commissar’s vife’s ass.
So, he vas shot….
lmao @ Ivan.
Serge had brain like borscht – cold, mushy and thick. In Sowiet Russia, you must NEVER covet anodder man’s vife’s donkey. Suicide.
There once was a fair lady named Xeno
Who was really quite fond of her vino
She drank all of her fermented juice
After a night of cutting loose
And so made a final toast with Pellegrino
Lolz, In Soviet Russia…
http://static.black-frames.net/images/in-s…
http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivation…
OK, last one. Promise.
There once was a girl name Xeno
Who spent the night at the casino
Quick as a flash
She lost all her cash
She swore it’d be the last time she’d ever play Keno
Sorry Xeno. I’m not exactly painting you with a very flattering brush, am I? What with all your drinking and gambling…lol
Yo, Yo – My man Vastie’s had his second cup and is bustin’ some dope rhymes, y’all.
>; )
Ivan was looking for romance…
and had planned out a 3-way dance…
with Avast and Xeno…
but little did he know…
they all had ‘peens’ in their pants.
SURPRISE!
One night my dear friend named Vastie
planned a night of debauch fantastie
He opened the door
expecting a whore
and found only his friend Sebastie
OB, as others have mentioned you can say no.
Or as I usually do & be creative, ask them to contibute to you.
Say, I’m a bit strapped right now So I Sure would like to take ten or twenty dollars.
Or ask the cashier if they would take a dollar from the IWK off my purchaes thanks.
It never works…but I have noticed the lovely ladies who work in the Grocery store I usually go to, don’t ask me anymore.
The way I see it, is I just can’t give money to everyone.
Secondly some charities have records of less than 30% of monies raised actually gets to the charity. I am not just speaking about charities with lower salaries to employees…often these charities spend large amounts to outside fundraisers, which totally negates them having ‘lower costs for management & staff ‘
You gotta pay attention
SO I have picked 2 & they are the only 2 I support. THose that want to call me cheap or any other insult can take a long hard suck on a frozen piece of dog shit & accept for a couple of times I have given to beggars I stick to it (both times I gave to beggers, they had dogs with them & I gave them, dog food & bottled water…both of them were very appreciative)
You guys are a bunch of sad sad sacks.
I know it’s not even 10am, but still.
And i”m not saying that because no one made a PK limerick.
OMG GUYS. I had a dream last night that zilla somehow got a pic of me and posted it in one of his photoshop pics with Thomas and I was like “OMG NOW PEOPLE KNOW WHO I AM!”
Then I woke up and was like ‘phewf” but then was like “huh, the same pic as my avatar is sitting on my desk so…. crap.”
HAHA.
Random: guys, I have a crush. On a boy. But I’ve given up boys for the year. WHAT DOES PK DO?
Stick to your promise lest ye be branded a shameless Jezebel. Unless it’s me; then fantasize to your heart’s content about me lip-synching to “Goodbye Horses” in my basement. >: 0
:O W.T.F.???????????
I KNOW you didn’t just put me and Sebastien in the same limerick!!
Ohhh, I’m not talkin’ to you anymore, Xeno….
I’m hurt, HURT I tell you.
You cut me deep. You cut me real deep just now.
AHAHAHAHA, IVAN!
*excuses self and heads toward private bathroom upstairs*
😛
There once was a girl named PK
Who announced she had a crush one day
She planned her next move
To get back her groove
But was gutted to find he was gay 🙁
(I kid, I kid)
One day dear my dear Vastie was in a snit
He decried the way Xeno had scribbled it
What Vastie forgets is
this bitch board’s my outlet
and those that dish it must eat of it
😛
“…and those that dish it must eat of it”
I love it when you talk dirty. 😛 lol
I’m still not very happy with you though. You called Sebastien my friend? What’s up with that?
Let me tell you of my friend PK
—committed to celibacy one day
she met a fine fella
you see her dilemma—
stay chaste, or give him a play?
PK- I say go for it with the guy… go hard!!
Lol Xeno – to paraphrase Frankie Howerd – “…so delightfully chaste. Yes, and so easily caught.”
PK – Tell him that you’re practicing celibacy, but you’re just not very good at it 😉
“But was gutted to find he was gay “
HAHA. This does happen a lot, vastie.
And I’m pretty sure he’s into someone else. *lesigh*
It’s ok, I’ve accepted the fact that I”m going to die alone and my cats are going to eat my corpse.
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.…
Use that as an opener PK, that’ll be sure to grab his attention. That
“no boys” resolution was made to be broken.
Oh, and I’d be down to watch Trains Planes and Automobiles some time for sure. I also love The Jerk.. no pun intended.
“Oh, and I’d be down to watch Trains Planes and Automobiles some time for sure. I also love The Jerk.. no pun intended.”
Will there be shameless flirting and a Thomas hug?
Those are my demands, mister! 😉
**Use that as an opener PK, that’ll be sure to grab his attention.**
Wait, do you mean:
*I’m practicing celibacy
or
*I’ve accepted the fact that I”m going to die alone and my cats are going to eat my corpse
?
either one’s an attention grabber, really…
I think hugo’s comment is what Thomas meant:
“Tell him that you’re practicing celibacy, but you’re just not very good at it ;)”
Sad thing is I *am* very good at it. :O
…which is why I don’t get why my comment about m.h. got you so miffed. Down here, it’s how two friends might help each other out if one is in a dry spell…