SOLICITING

Solicitor: Mam would you like to help the "kids from the Gulf Coast share a Cross"

Me: NO....you should solicit in your own community

Solicitor: Mam would you like to give to the Montgomery little ones and big ones

me: no please solicit in your own community

Solicitor: Mam would you like to help the ozark community police departmant...

me: what I pay tax's a lot of tax's what could you need money for

solicitor: It is to "save" for our police fund

me: what police fund....what is it for what do you do with it

solicitor: we save it until we "find" a cause

me: when you find the cause then ask me for money....please do not call my house at 8 a.m. again

Solicitor: would you like to donate to the Mt. Zion Church

me: Ah....no I am a Catholic we do not share our money with other church's (just kidding I did not say that however I did donate to this church because I knew the person who asked me to)

What I hate about soliciting for "not for profit" it is usually a cause I have never heard of, a cause that does not have a logo or a web site. I also hate people that come from other communities, stay in your own community and get money from them....oh yeah and do not send those 10 year old kids in because I will tell them no also (OK wait I am not that mean I can not tell the kids no and I think the adult is horrible that asks the kids to do that). I also hate getting nickled and dimed to death please quit coming in to my office, please quite calling my house, please quit stopping me outside the win Dixie to help your cult convert poor innocent children into "Christians."

Now do not get me wrong I like to give however I want it to be my choice and feel good about it and give it to a reliable organization that I know will use the money in an efficient manner. I also will donate if someone I know asks me because I feel they are reliable and will make sure the money goes to the organization and not to some preachers pocket.