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I'm not sure where to put this, as it happened while I was at work tonight, but these people weren't really customers. This seems right, but if it's not, then mods, feel free to move it. Anyway, so, I was working yet another night shift at the C-store, when in wanders these two late-teenage to early-twenty-something kids, a guy and a girl, carrying boxes. I recognized what they were there for right away, as we'd seen similar in years past. Sure enough, they walk over to the counter, boxes in tow. M is Male, F is Female. ME is...Me.
M: Excuse me, can I ask you a question?
ME: *thinking maybe I was wrong and they need directions* Sure. Go ahead.
M: My name *name I can't make out through an Asian accent* and this is *another name i can't make out* and we're trying to raise money for our church group. We are selling these beautiful-opens box-
F: TADA!!!
M: Wind chimes! Would you like to help us out and buy one?
ME: *forcing self not to laugh* Oh, no, thank you
F: We need donations, even a dollar or some change would really help us out
ME: No, I'm sorry, I can't help you out.
They both looked disappointed, M shut his box, and they left. I saw them wandering all over the various places around the intersection, in the dark, peddling their wares, for the rest of the night. They were at one point approaching our customers in the parking lot with it, but I sent my AM after them, and they left. I'm not sure where these people come from, but they seem to turn up in the area just about every year, and we and the other businesses chase them away just about every year, for soliciting on our property. It could be a legit thing, it could be something else. I really don't know. I just know that you can't solicit on our (or most businesses) property.
M: Excuse me, can I ask you a question?
ME: *thinking maybe I was wrong and they need directions* Sure. Go ahead.
M: My name *name I can't make out through an Asian accent* and this is *another name i can't make out* and we're trying to raise money for our church group. We are selling these beautiful-opens box-
F: TADA!!!
M: Wind chimes! Would you like to help us out and buy one?
ME: *forcing self not to laugh* Oh, no, thank you
F: We need donations, even a dollar or some change would really help us out
ME: No, I'm sorry, I can't help you out.
They both looked disappointed, M shut his box, and they left. I saw them wandering all over the various places around the intersection, in the dark, peddling their wares, for the rest of the night. They were at one point approaching our customers in the parking lot with it, but I sent my AM after them, and they left. I'm not sure where these people come from, but they seem to turn up in the area just about every year, and we and the other businesses chase them away just about every year, for soliciting on our property. It could be a legit thing, it could be something else. I really don't know. I just know that you can't solicit on our (or most businesses) property.
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