When it comes to strangers , guys are cheap.

St Patrick’s day came and past, and kind of last minute, I arranged a wear green to work day in the building.

Each person who wears green can do so for 1$ donation. There is no soliciting and no mooching in the building, but the building management allowed me, since I was humble and asked for 1$, a greedier request would probably be denied- I seen it on the face of the building manager.

So I printed a flyer a went door to door and quickly made a full proof scientific revelation- guys are cheap.

Every door in which a woman stood at the door, I received donations , or at the very list, smiles a guarantee to post the flyer, any door with a guy, the answers were, busy, not interested, the economy is bad now, etc..- the only exception was a foreign guy, Russian I think. So my scientific rule apply for locals.

My flier promised me coming the next day- on st Patrick’s days itself – fully clad in green.

 

So on the day of the Irish- I had moments of unwillingness to go forward- telling strangers about donations is one thing, but going over the building again for the 2nd round, was harder, especially since I didn’t remember which one’s looked willing and which rooms had just guys. Close to backing out, I moved onward.

Wearing green jeans, green under wear, green buttoned shirt, white and green shamrock ‘Cat in the hat’ hat, green tiara, my green eye ball glasses, the Irish flag (purchased at Dublin , Ireland 3 years prior), another ‘cat in the hat’ hat, but colorfully striped as my collection box and black socks.

I wish I had a photo , but I am unable too due to reasons beyond my control. I forgot.

So I made my second round and collected more funds. I got some laughs, so it was worth it.

The endeavor earned me 41$., for a grand total of 1006$- 18% achieved.

The exceptions to the guy rule are the building manager, who is apparently a long time supporter of the cronh’s foundation, another guy at that office who gave after the woman next to him asked, “so, you are not donating?”. And the Russian guy, who was nice, didn’t have cash, but gave a 1$ check.

I believe I may have gotten more, if I wasn’t wearing my green Celtics shirt- a very no no thing to do here in Cleveland, but they are Irish, so it’s allowed (Kevin garnet is half Irish from county Cork , and Paul mcPierce, you can get more Irish then that).

Not enough  donations since the building is a small one, only 2 stories, I asked some people to move to  bigger building so I can raise more, they said – sure, we’ll think about it…

 

I need to find an office building full of woman…

 

I approached few others recently.

On march 10, the universal day of awesomeness, I emailed chuck Norris, through his web site- it may be a good thing he did not respond, since a response by chuck Norris is a roundhouse kick to the head, so probably for the best.

No response from shaker city, my bank, my apartment building manager, the Reedsport police department who fined me last year, geico, my insurance company, Knesset member Jumes  - for each I sent a personal plea , stating how I am related to them- so far no luck.

I am thinking of approaching some synagogues – if I have to go to temple for funds.,.. that is truly a sacrifice- god is punishing me for something- we have an arrangement, you see- I try to be a kind human being, and he doesn’t force me to pray, wear Yakama, or anything like that- it has been a good arrangement for many years- so we shall see.

 

You are all invited for my scavenger hunt funraiser (d is missing on purpose), my fundraising hikes and other events that will be posted in the near future.

 

Oh- a general reminder of some event next month on April 24^th – if you considered getting me a gift, good- please donate the money instead. And if you didn’t, please rethink!

 

Cheers and have a good weekend