Donation

It was a not-so-fine day in APIIT when my coursemates were in the lab doing their assignments when I was the only one in the Social Space watching other students playing their game of table tennis.

As I was about to fall asleep, this English-spoken Malay teen approached me with gleams of hope in his eyes. Forgive me for not remembering his long-winded pre-planned speech, but what I do know is that his speech was all about a "fund-raising" charity body to help spastic children.

As I was listening to his speech, he mentioned clearly that this body is not the same as any other bodies. How is it not the same? He stated that this body is not a donation drive body. Ok, I accepted that and agreed to continue listening to his speech.

As the one-sided conversation took place, I heard this guy saying something about "donating RM10 could help a child for a week". That was when I started to get a little annoyed (not that I didn't expect that, but at least he could have mentioned it earlier).

I interupted his speech and said, "Wait wait wait, hold it there. You said this isn't a donation drive"

"Yeah yeah, this isn't. We are just here to give an awareness about these poor children and we were hoping that you could help them", he said.

"Helping them by donating RM10?"

"Yeah, you can put it that way, sir"

"So...your point is, by donating RM10 to a non-donation drive body could help a child for a week?"

What followed this sentence...I had no idea cause he was speaking too fast, probably to cover up his real intention. Whatever it was, I boldly just said that he was speaking to the wrong guy. Guess what, this guy never gave up! He continued to pester me...and I just waited patiently for him to end his speech.

Once he came to a break (expecting me to hand out my flashy red note)...

"Didn't I say that you were talking to the wrong guy?"

"But why, sir? By helping these poor children, you can etc etc etc..."

"Nope, you've just wasted your breath over me"

"Ok, sir. Thank you for your time, sir. Have a nice day!" And off he went.

Let me get this straight. He shouldn't have mentioned that the body was NOT a donation drive body. I could have stopped him there n then. And what was that crap about donating to a non-donation drive body? WTF?

Worst of all, do NOT ever ask a donor on why he doesn't want to donate. It is impolite to do so and this is known as conversational ethics.

Know your role before disturbing my slumber.