To put things straight, i'm someone who likes to help people out. Friend, stranger, weird or not. And for the record, i don't expect anything out of helping someone except a sense of accomplishment; that i have really don't something that made someone's day.

I never really got why my dad gets mad everytime a charity organisation call us at home and talks to us for a while to persuade us to donate. Today, i finally understood. The fact that these callers call every month despite being told that we don't want to donate really makes me angry. In addition, you don't call people 3-5 times A DAY. PERIOD. When i say that my parents are not in, i'm not lying. You call in the afternoon at say 2pm and expect our parents to be home? Hello? It's in the middle of the day and they're working! Then they proceed to ask what time my parents will be back. Most of the time, i would tell them about 8pm. Nowadays, i just answer bluntly and say,"I don't know." When my parents come home from work, they're tired. All they want to do is have dinner, have a nice bath and relax. Sometimes my mum makes calls to her family members to catch up or talk to the rest at home. Other than that, she doesn't really want to talk to anyone else. Much less entertain talks on the phone and persuading her to donate or things like that.

What really makes my blood boil is the frequency of their calls. This afternoon, i received a call from an organisation that i will not name at around 3pm. I told them my mum was not around. (Mannerisms please) The caller decided to hang up with an,"Okay." Where's a "Thanks anyway"? Okay nevermind. That part not very important. After barely 10 minutes, another person from the SAME organisation called AGAIN. Asked for my mum AGAIN. I got so agitated (besides, this afternoon wasn't a good time to disturb me while i was busy doing my project) that i replied,"I already said she's not in." I have to admit that i showed my temper. (My bad point, honestly) But why do you have to keep calling? You already called me like.. 10 minutes ago, i told you that she wasn't in and you called back within the next 10 minutes!? So what? Now i'm supposed to EXPECT you to call every 10 minutes?

And i kid you not. They called back at 8.30pm just now. LIKE WTH?! GO HOME ALREADY! STOP DISTURBING US AT HOME. Night is supposed to be family time, a quiet time. Don't people get it?!

And the worse that i've come across is when you've listened to whatever they've said (which is probably all that's drafted out on a piece of paper - you can use a recorder and put it on repeat at every phone call) and decide to not donate, THEY JUST HANG UP ON YOU. WTH?! (1) You're doing it for the sake of the organisation, and this is how you are going to persuade people to donate? With your impoliteness? (2) It's basic courtesy to thank the person on the other line even if it's a negative answer.

I really wish we didn't have the Yellow Pages. They get all our numbers from there, our addresses. There's no privacy at all. Just the phonebook with numbers of companies or business is enough. Why do we need a phonebook with EVERYONE'S number and addresses?

I don't know what the rest of the people out there think. But i think i had enough having random people call us at home asking for donations.

LOOK,

1. We will donate when we have the ability to. It's not like we're loaded. We're trying to be frugal during this bad economic period. We don't live in luxury. We don't even have enough money to treat ourselves these days!

2. We will donate sincerely when the time comes and we will give our money to whatever organisation we want to. Don't force us. Even if you force, it's liked dirty money. It's not sincere. It's not.. real!

My classmate once asked me what i think a good business mean to me.

My answer: A business that doesn't cheat/force someone to spend his money on goods that are inferior/ when the businessman lies about the standard of the goods.

As easy as that. I know it's not directly linked to what i have said about charity organisations. But about the FORCING part. I really don't like it.

PS: Today's really not a good day. What with random tantrums from someone, the calls, project woes, GENG'S SUPPOSED TERMINATION OF CONTRACT... ARGH

, osn.

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