Hello,
My name is Mark and I live in England.
picture the scene. My 5 year old son decided to have a clear out of his old (good working order)toys yesterday, and so we bagged them up and istead of throwing them away we decided to take them to the local charity shop.
we walked in to see 3 people standing behind the counter, 1 of which immediately put his hands out to receive the donation without saying a word, took them from my sons hands and proceeded to complain that one of the toys had dead batteries in it.
he then passed them onto a woman who was obviously his gopher, and she started to complain that these were the second lot of toys they had received today.
As I took my sons hand to walk out of the shop, he turmed to the ungrateful asshole behind the counter and said "thankyou" the man never acknowledged him at all.
we walked out of the shop and back to the car.
What is going on??? whould it have taken so much time out of the self important, righteous wankers day to say thankyou to a little boy who thought he was doing the right thing giving his toys up for less fortunate children?
needless to say not only wont we be going back to give stuff away at that charity shop ever again, but you have to wonder whether my son thinks "to hell with charity, theyre not grateful for donations anyway" or even worse, be sucked into a world that seems to think its ok to treat people like shit, even youre trying to help someone out.
I know these people give up their time for free, which is admirable, but really? the very act of not saying "Thankyou" 1 word which takes less time to sound out than a fart or a cough.
is unforgiveable, as by none of them saying "thankyou" they may as well have said. "to hell with you and your son, we dont give a fuck what youre bringing to us and we really dont give a fuck if you bring anymore. Do you realise that you and your son have just interrupted our cigarette rolling and coffee drinking time?, and do you realise just how well respected in the community we are for all our great charity work over the years?
your dontion is so insignificant we will not say THANKYOU.
our thankyou system works like a customer loyalty card. your first visit doesnt get any kind of response from us whatsoever, when you bring your next shitty donation to us we will greet you with your first earned pleasantry "HELLO".
this will continue on each of you and your sons visits until you have donated enough crap and earned a THANKYOU.
do call again."
WELL I SAY
"FUCKEM."
