Like most people, I'm used to recieving the heaps of charity leaflets begging for money for their different causes. I actually donated once, and found myself signed up to the mailing list of hundreds more garbage sending companies, and I ended up receiving even more requests for various things. Now, I have nothing against charity collections: I've done it myself, standing in the doorways of Tesco, Somerfield, Sainsburies and Waitrose with a little donation pot freezing to death. And when I see other people doing the same, I always donate my small change, if only to warm their heart that little bit.. my sympathy goes out to them.
However, more recently, I got a slightly more unusual charity scheme. This charity, "The Children's Food Fund" sent
me two pence. Yes, that's right. take a lookie
here if you, like me find this hard to believe. It's a scan of the letter if you can be bothered to wait for it to load.
The document goes on to explain how useful two pence is, and what it can do. I've always thought it was nonsensical to spend good donations on mailing hundreds of thousands of people who just bin their junk mail, but to actually send the damned cash is ridiculous. Yeah, great
idea for guilt tripping people, but no-one's gonna bother sending any cash back. I find this stupifyingly odd. What a waste. And to think they could have fed poor "Tamba".
Well, just a quick rant. I'll send the "Evangelical Alliance" their money and letter back. If it didn't have a dirty great tear they could keep the two pence for Tamba and draw little pictures of two pence ready to send to someone else. The bin men just left, but the postman has yet to arrive.
cya
-ZX
Bizarre new charity schemes...
