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or what would you have thought...

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AuntieMonica · 10/09/2011 20:16

shopping in a well-known department store, for the purposes of this thread let's call it Lewis Johns and sitting for a well-deserved cuppa and bowl of fairly heavenly cream of vegetable soup...

a lad, about 11/12 comes up and pushes a sponsorship form in front of me, mumbles something about a boxing club and Amir Khan and wants me to write my name and address down.

i told him i wasn't local, that i was only visiting the area and wouldn't be able to guarantee when i was back in town to give him his money...

he said it was ok, i could give him the cash there and then.

what would you have done?

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reelingintheyears · 10/09/2011 20:31

Tell the pensioners to jog on.

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 10/09/2011 20:31

Thingumy I have just spat out my drink at that. Thanks a fucking bunch.

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AuntieMonica · 10/09/2011 20:31

are the kids at your door local to you though troisgarcons?

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fourkids · 10/09/2011 20:31

'pensioners doing sponsored walks asking to be paid up front too.' Confused

GilbonzoTheSecretPsychoCunt · 10/09/2011 20:33
Thingumy · 10/09/2011 20:33

Hands Rock a straw to sip up the spills

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 10/09/2011 20:35
Thingumy · 10/09/2011 20:35

Wish I had fucking pensioners asking for money at my doorstep.We only get Jehovahs.

Thingumy · 10/09/2011 20:35

not fucking pensioners though,that would just be wrong.

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AuntieMonica · 10/09/2011 20:35
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GilbonzoTheSecretPsychoCunt · 10/09/2011 20:36

No one knocks on my door Sad

No one can find it evenSader

reelingintheyears · 10/09/2011 20:36

We only get bailiffs in these parts.SadGrin

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 10/09/2011 20:37

Would that be in the Arse End Of Nowhere?

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AuntieMonica · 10/09/2011 20:37

we had jehovah witness's and a sky salesman today(it was a bloke, not sexist Wink ) but i was out, DS2 had all the pleasure of ignoring them

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NeverKnowinglyUnderDoug · 10/09/2011 20:37

Well I suppose if you pay the pensioners up front the charity still gets the dosh if its all too much for them and they keel over on the way around.

GilbonzoTheSecretPsychoCunt · 10/09/2011 20:37

How did you guess?

reelingintheyears · 10/09/2011 20:38

Ooooh...fucking pensioners on your doorstep.

Does that mean you are doing the fucking of said pensioners or that they are fucking each other if there are more than one of them...IYSWIM

GilbonzoTheSecretPsychoCunt · 10/09/2011 20:38

Doug Shock

That's what I was trying not to say.

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 10/09/2011 20:39
Grin
Thingumy · 10/09/2011 20:39

Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee reeling

sick!

reelingintheyears · 10/09/2011 20:40

Happy to help Thingumy.

NeverKnowinglyUnderDoug · 10/09/2011 20:40

At least I don't fuck em although DH is considerably older than I am

Talker2010 · 10/09/2011 20:41

Told him to Fuck Off AND complained to the store about being pestered

I never pay sponsorship up front and I always sponsor by the mile/hour/whatever rather than a fixed amount ... otherwise they might just as well ask for money end of

OlaJordansBodyDouble · 10/09/2011 20:41

All these enterprising young people I'm reading of today.

I'm going to make DCs fashion a guy and drag it round the smartest cafes in town.

Should be worth a bob or two. Grin

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AuntieMonica · 10/09/2011 20:41

oh, i have news btw, DD told me today you have to be 51 to be a grown up

i love her more and more each day Grin

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