Trying to get home
Those Greenpeace fuckers are persistent. I'm walking to the train and of course I have to make eye contact with one of them. It's like making eye contact with a pitbull during his shift on watch.
"You look like someone who wants to..." I don't remember the rest. I tried to tune him out.
"I'd like you to sign up with Greenpeace so that we can lobby..." etc etc etc.
So I take a line out of Boiler Room and let him try to give me a sales pitch. I say
"Ok, you got until the T stop to sell me."
So he goes on and on and on. I ask "Do you have any fliers or a card or something, and he says "Well, we are trying to get back on paper". So I say "Can I sign up online?" And he says "Well, the reason we are out here today is to get signatures" (so people don't say they'll sign up and then blow them off completely). But if I were to sign up online, I'd be saving paper by not using theirs, right?
I ended up saying I'll sing up online at greenpeace.org, but who knows what the hell I'll do. I can't even predict what I'm going to do 2 minutes from now.
posted by Jocular Schlemiel @ 6:28 AM
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greenpeace that is not paperless..hmmmmm
You sound a little conflicted here. The fact that the guy existed made you feel a little uncomfortable. You could have told him "Not interested" and he'd have left you alone. But you listened. And lets face it: who doesn't have some small part of them that wants to save the world? But the pressure of actually signing up was a bit much. I essentially did the same thing a few months ago. I even got my pen out then I heard they wanted me to sign up for a monthly payment that would go on indefinitely. I was adding it all up in my head and it scared me off.
Aww man, you totally missed out on an opportunity to ask him what he thought about the Greenpeace founder now being in favor of nuclear power!
As for me, I always have my iPod earbuds in , and if approached I yell "SORRY CAN'T HEAR YOU...LISTENING TO CHRISTIAN ROCK AT A DEAFENING VOLUME!"
Don't do it! I once signed up for greenpeace.org about 8 years ago when I didn't know any better -- using my dad's e-mail address -- and he received about an average of 10 emails per day every day until he was finally able to get off the mailing list. The process took about five years and I nearly earned myself excommunication from the family.
@Todd - Right????
@Greenpeace - I was as uncomfortable as a person going up to a woman saying "congratulations on being pregnant" when in real life they gained 80 lbs. (true story about a co-worker)
@Anon - I woulda said "Can't hear you! I'm trying to sing along with Raffi! Sooo gooood!"
@Ashley - If that's the consequence, I'm putting my twin's address on there.
try living with a kid that works for Greenpeace. We had to get a random Craiglist room mate.
The most annoying abrasive personality ever.
It takes a special breed...
Do you still live with the kid? If so, keep the lights on when you leave, flush the toilet 5 times, and do whatever else is possible to waste energy.
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