Wormella
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I read that too.
They can be annoying but even so I’m always polite. In a breathless, hurried voice, rushing past...it varies from
“Great charity, but I do all my charity donations already by direct debit” (this is true)
“I’m so sorry, I can’t stop, I’ve only got a few minutes left on the car park ticket” (also true)
“ I already donate to that charity” (quite often true)
“Sorry, but my husband deals with that side of things, (not true at all).
I’d never ever ever be rude to chuggers.
Yes they can be annoying but the charities are just trying to do something good and there is so much competition.
The people doing the chugging are getting up in the morning and doing a thankless job, for very little pay, they get abused for just trying to make a living when there are so few jobs out there.
But they are doing SOMETHING, as opposed to doing nothing.
So it’s nicer to just smile and say “no thank you” rather than scowl and tell them to f*ck off”
I also use many of these too - I try not to be mean, I've done volunteer charity work and in a number of jobs had to give out leaflet and samples and it's also horrid when someone is mean to you.