Shirley

Just wanted to share a quick story/situation I encountered today. I was volunteering at Scotia Plaza today for Avon's Penny roll-a-thon raising awareness for breast cancer and our goal is to raise 125M pennies by October.

We had a table set up and pretty much people can just walk up to us and donate whatever change they have, if they choose to. So this one guy walks right up to us holding a loonie and asks for 50cents back because he only wants to donate 50 cents. We just took a batch of donation to the bank so we had nothing to give back to him. But he insists on getting some sort of change back. He saw something silver and said "Oh, can I get a quarter back?" "No you can't because that's a dime" So he then gives up and wants a dime back.

I'm really puzzled on his action and can't seem to put a finger on what kind of person he is. Stingy? Weird? Crazy? I can't tell. I personally was thinking in my head, if you're going to do this, might as well just walk pass us and not donate anything.

Many women actually walked pass us and we even called out to them to donate to breast cancer. But they continued. They should stop and think that this common and scary disease can affect someone they know, someone close to them or even themselves. Why are we trying to hard to raise money for something that might happen to those people? But I can't think too much of that because overall, this is for a good cause and I'd help with whatever I can. If anything happens to them, then they'll know maybe their penny might've made a difference. It's really up to them to come to realization.

If you girls want more info about this campaign we're having, check out http://www.avoneverypennycounts.ca. If you can help out by donating whatever pennies you have, that'll even be better! I have penny wrappers with me and I can drop off some for you or you can download them from the site. Just let me know! =) I'm going to continue rolling my pennies.