The tin and stickers

1. "Hi, would you like to make a donation."
2. "Donate please."
3. *smile*
4. *stuff the donation tin into your face blocking your way*

I'm very sure you will have this kind of forced donation experience unless you are the type that stay at home all day.

Honestly, I don't find it irritating even if they block my way with a smile while I'm alighting from a bus at the bus terminal. Cannot blame them actually because they have to do it from the command and order of the school and the charity organisation.

School forcing students to come back during weekend to do hard labour for the charity organisation because they want good reputation. The students of course have no choice but to slack around while some hardworking ones go around appealing for donations.

Do you donate?

I do when I have coin.

Why do you donate?

I guess the reason with every donater is the same.

Usuaully we just want to buy a sticker by putting a little money into the donation tin. After buying it, we would then proudly and carefully keep the sticker for the rest of the journey. This is like an "admission pass". With this little round sticker, you will no longer be asked for another donation.

Would you have the mindset of "do charity" when you are putting your coin into the tin? Most of the time you are just playing along with the student seeing them pleading helplessly for donations. You don't even bother to ask which school they from, the money will benefit which organisation, how will the money be use or more. We are just blindly inserting money into tin in exchange for a sticker.

Then of course, there will be "act smart" people going around asking for fake donations. These people are bastards because they abuse on human's sympathy to boost their income. Hat off to those who manage to find out the truth and report them to the authorities.

That's my tin and stickers story.