“Our School Team/Band/Club/Breakdancing Troupe is Going on a Trip So We’re Asking For Change on a Median Strip” C/D

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Screw you. Wash a car, sell baked goods, do something, and get outta the middle of the street.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 5 June 2006 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeeesh, that was a bit harsh, I suppose. But that gets on my nerves. Whatever happened to actually earning money for these sorts of things? (14-year old girls washing cars in bikinis bother me too, there’s something creepy about it, but at least they’re performing a service and not asking you to just give ‘em money)

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 5 June 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

what?

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Monday, 5 June 2006 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Maybe this only happens in Baltimore County then?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 5 June 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

it's a long way from "trick or treat for UNICEF" that's for sure

maybe their teacher is a rehabilitated panhandler

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

hello sir! how bout I squeegee your windshield to fight AIDS?

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

you do realize that a lot of kidz who do this don't really have a team/band/club or troupe, right? a car wash would kinda be beside the point. although it was a little more reasonable when there was a candy bar involved in raising money for the fictional team/band/club or troupe.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

wots a median strip?

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2004/2004070105a.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:17 (twenty years ago)

not to say that there aren't legitimate teams/bands/clubs and troupes out there raising money in stupid ways, too. there are. but in philly anyway, i remember the technique becoming a ubiqitous and slightly cuter form of panhandling. at first it was kinda fun to actually ask them about the stuff they were raising money for to see the blank look on their face, but then you just ended up ignoring them like everyone else.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Every once in a long while I'll see kids doing this by the Holland Tunnel -- usually they're wearing uniforms and have parents with them so I assume it's cool.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

in new york city they go out in teams, pre-pubescent kids selling candy bars several X retail price for some vague charity or school. and i've literally seen their handlers, usually barely past school age themselves, lurking around the corner or in the background.

xpost

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.swylie.com/blog_img/08012005-road-use2.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Around here they don't even need a median. They just walk around between the cars during a red light. Sometimes it's a little league team raising money and I can't believe their parents let these 10-year-old kids walk around between cars when they could start moving at any second. And yes, it's very dud. I have my own damn kids' teams/bands/clubs/troupes to support and you cause traffic to move slower so I miss the freakin' light and I have places to be, damn you!

― Rebekkah (burntbrat), Monday, 5 June 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

yeah, if it's a bunch of kids all wearing the same team jackets, than it's legit, but if it's 1 or 2 sad looking kids looking down at the ground and mumbling something about school, then, um, they probably do need the money, but i'm busy, kid, so scram!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 June 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

How about kids standing at the exit doors of Walmarts soliciting donations?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

DUD DUD. I just want my beer, face cream and light bulbs and want to get out of there. Geez. I know it's not much to just say "No thanks" and walk on by, but they are always there. So now I go through the side entrance where I have to push the door open with the cart.

― Rebekkah (burntbrat), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

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