I went to a bar downtown Friday night to watch the presidential debate with some friends. Over all it was a very solid time. Their were a few different groups their having sign ups. Over all I think these are good things, but here is what I don't get.
As we were leaving one of the fellows who attempted to get Doug and I to sign up for his group turned out to be a friend of a friend. He said something to the effect of, "Oh yeah I was annoying those two guys earlier." In reality Doug and I were not annoyed so much as we were in a bar and we were without drinks. This is not a situation we handle well, and we were trying to plot out the best course of action to remedy this problem. The guy was plenty nice enough, but nothing he could have said would have gotten me to join his group. I simply don't do that sort of thing. Well, after his statement about annoying Doug and I, he said he was upset because he didn't hit his quota for annoying people that evening. This can be taken one of two ways I believe.
1) He meant it in a weird sort of, I need to get more people involved, way
2) He really took pleasure in hosting his beliefs on others.
I really hope it was one and not two, but my gut says it was two.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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Maybe he just sets his quota standards too low and actually *had* hit the mark in annoying just the right amount of people.
To me, this is just like pushy sales clerks who hover and swarm on those rare occasions when I'm shopping. I don't need help, I don't want your input, just be around to unlock the dressing room and stay out of my way. I'm not going to buy anything - or sign up for anything (in the political realm, back to your example) - because you've convinced me to... I've already made up my mind what I'm going to do and it's not easy to persuade me otherwise.
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