Last night, I was walking to the train station when I was accosted by this man. He started fast-talking right after saying hi, and that was an instant turn-off already. Besides, it was in mandarin. But then he seemed desperate enough, so I figured I'd hear him out. After informing him that I wasn't particularly inclined to converse in mandarin, he switched to English.
He told me that he was on this entrepreneurship program and was required by his teacher to raise 100 bucks. *sarcastically* Wow. Then he told me his plan: Here's a box of paper clips. I'll sell them one by one for a dollar each, until I raise a hundred bucks. He said his rationale was that he couldn't possibly sell a box of clips for a hundred, so he'd do it piecemeal. What a crackpot scheme! I liked it so much that I'd have given him more than a dollar just to hear it.
Unfortunately, I would only give a dollar due to his delivery. For one, he tried to worm more money out of me by asking for two dollars. And then his fast-talking technique which nearly made me reflexively toss him away. Plus, he took too long to get to the point. If not for all these, I'd gladly give him 2 bucks. Hah!
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