I was in Bed Bath and Beyond a while back, and a woman stopped me and wanted me to buy a king-sized bag of M&Ms for a dollar. She was just wandering around with a box of them, like the kind people can get at Sam’s Club or whatever.
Anyways, I asked her why and she said she was trying to help her daughter (who was nowhere in sight) raise money for the youth group at their church. I asked her what church, and she gave some generic name that I didn’t recognize but there’s lots of churches here so it could be real.
Anyways, I thought it was so strange- why would she be selling FOR her daughter? Where was her daughter? Why in BB&B? And why didn’t the BB&B worker who was standing right by us say something to her? It was irritating.
Anyways, I’ve been thinking about these salesy things lately as you might have noticed, and I remembered this.
Doesn’t this break some sort of rule? Would you ever do that, even if it WAS for a real charity?
ETA: I didn’t buy any candy
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