Chuggers

God, I hate them. Seriously, they do my head in. And thus make me even more misanthropic than usual.

It isn't the concept of giving to charity - I'm all for that. It isn't that they're raising money in the street - if its for a cause they feel passionately about, then of course they're going to use every means possible to make money. No, what bothers me is the *zany* types they have doing the chugging. You know the ones I mean - the ones who give idiots a bad name. Those who dance around in front of you even if you're pretending they don't exist. Those who get in your personal space believing that's a good way to get you to part with your hard earned cash. And those who shout out a crude description of you in order to get your attention ("beardy!"). Fuck off already! If I was in any way interested in your charity, I would give to it online. A prancing prig with a clipboard is not going to make me more likely to give to your charity. In fact, the opposite is true.

And there are now so many of these lacklustre, attention-seeking goblins on our streets that it has become a veritable epidemic. It is like certain areas in certain cities have developed a strange disease - a form of veneral disease for particular streets. "Don't go down Main Street! It's got herpes chuggers!" I think there is some sympathy from some for these people as they are collecting for charity. Well, I don't share that symapthy - these people are paid to act like dicks in public.

So here's the deal - I'm not going to give to any charity that employs a chugger who irritates me. If charities want to collect money on the street, that's fine. But employing jumped up little shits with all the people skills of a spoilt toddler is not good enough, and won't be a way to get any money from me.