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...only sometimes. For example, from this time last year: Why I hate bell ringers.
Still true today. I saw one bell ringer this year I'd give money to - and one I'd love to sue, just to make him go away. The latter was ringing a full-strength bell inside a tiny entryway at the mall between two sets of doors. It was deafening. I'd have told him what I thought of him, but I doubt he could have heard me.
The Salvation Army sucks. And as a general rule, I try to fight the urge to give them any money, because they put these assholes out here with the loud bells to HURT us every holiday season. I don't pay to be annoyed - or injured.
Heh. Last year I sent almost no gifts; this year I sent tons. It's all a question of whether something catches my fancy and, this year, it did. But I don't buy into the "must" of the holidays, so I do hope no one will be upset if I sometimes do and sometimes don't send stuff. (The corollary of this is, for pity's sake, don't send me stuff from a sense of obligation!)
Still true today. I saw one bell ringer this year I'd give money to - and one I'd love to sue, just to make him go away. The latter was ringing a full-strength bell inside a tiny entryway at the mall between two sets of doors. It was deafening. I'd have told him what I thought of him, but I doubt he could have heard me.
The Salvation Army sucks. And as a general rule, I try to fight the urge to give them any money, because they put these assholes out here with the loud bells to HURT us every holiday season. I don't pay to be annoyed - or injured.
Heh. Last year I sent almost no gifts; this year I sent tons. It's all a question of whether something catches my fancy and, this year, it did. But I don't buy into the "must" of the holidays, so I do hope no one will be upset if I sometimes do and sometimes don't send stuff. (The corollary of this is, for pity's sake, don't send me stuff from a sense of obligation!)
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