"But it's free!"
It happens a lot that I have to fight to not get stuff. I'm not talking about the times when you decide firmly not to buy something, but about having to repeat that you don't want something before ending up with many of these free things that keep popping all around.
Ordinary legal harassment – an example.
Let's say you're weak and go get a bottle of perfume because yours is out or almost. To start with, you already feel bad buying this when perfume is not natural at all and full of mean substances etc., but before you're strong enough to do without that silly perfume you pay this weakness by having to suffer the kind of places that sell it.
When your turn is up at the counter, you have to be fast because it's immediately put inside a plastic bag, even though it's very small.
- No thanks, I have my own bag.
Mistrust passed in eyes full of surprise.
- Are you sure?
Once this issue is sorted out, beware, the worst is to come when you just bought perfume.
- No thanks, I don't want any samples.
(a silence of shock and disbelief)
- Are you sure?
- Yes.
- You don't want to try new fragrances?
- No thanks, I know which perfume suits me, and I have it now.
- But miss, it's free!
The time comes when you have to calm everybody down in the middle of this panic situation: offer to give the free samples you don't want to the person just behind you. Until now, nobody ever turned that down…
But it happens everywhere.
At the place I still sometimes go to get a sandwich for lunch, they give small chocolates, which always leads to this chorus of "Are you sure? – But it's free!".
Worse, once these chocolates were forced into my bag.
- Thanks a lot but I don't want them.
- You'll probably want them later in the afternoon.
- I don't think so.
- Come on, everybody is entitled some pleasure, plus it's free!
That day I lost the battle and ended up giving the free unwanted chocolates to a colleague.
It would seem that our grand and brilliant society of wanting more and more of everything can't stand the idea of someone turning down anything that's free. That behaviour appears shocking.
Conclusion: it appears I'm quite a hooligan.
Ordinary legal harassment – an example.
Let's say you're weak and go get a bottle of perfume because yours is out or almost. To start with, you already feel bad buying this when perfume is not natural at all and full of mean substances etc., but before you're strong enough to do without that silly perfume you pay this weakness by having to suffer the kind of places that sell it.
When your turn is up at the counter, you have to be fast because it's immediately put inside a plastic bag, even though it's very small.
- No thanks, I have my own bag.
Mistrust passed in eyes full of surprise.
- Are you sure?
Once this issue is sorted out, beware, the worst is to come when you just bought perfume.
- No thanks, I don't want any samples.
(a silence of shock and disbelief)
- Are you sure?
- Yes.
- You don't want to try new fragrances?
- No thanks, I know which perfume suits me, and I have it now.
- But miss, it's free!
The time comes when you have to calm everybody down in the middle of this panic situation: offer to give the free samples you don't want to the person just behind you. Until now, nobody ever turned that down…
But it happens everywhere.
At the place I still sometimes go to get a sandwich for lunch, they give small chocolates, which always leads to this chorus of "Are you sure? – But it's free!".
Worse, once these chocolates were forced into my bag.
- Thanks a lot but I don't want them.
- You'll probably want them later in the afternoon.
- I don't think so.
- Come on, everybody is entitled some pleasure, plus it's free!
That day I lost the battle and ended up giving the free unwanted chocolates to a colleague.
It would seem that our grand and brilliant society of wanting more and more of everything can't stand the idea of someone turning down anything that's free. That behaviour appears shocking.
Conclusion: it appears I'm quite a hooligan.
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