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My neighbor who's been out of work for over a year is now trying to start a t-shirt hero campaign. The idea is kids draw/write on a plain white tee and pay my neighbor $15. He keeps a portion of the money, and then will deliver the shirts to a local hospital for nurses and doctors to wear. I applaud his initiative but...
Over the weekend he started manically going door to door in my neighborhood talking a million miles a minute - seeming like he was on speed of some variety. And got some takers, but mostly people were freaked out by him. He approached my wife and I and was such a pain in the ass talking about how therapeutic art can be for kids and being cooped up in the house, blah blah blah. He had a "sample" shirt that he "designed" and I swear it looked like a 5 year old scrawled all over it. Plus he had a chicken scratch pamphlet about quantities that I couldn't read because it was so messy.
Monday my family gets ready for our afternoon walk and he pulls up and aggressively asks my wife "you guys doing the shirts or what???"
Then yesterday he asks me if I can take photos and videos of my boys designing a shirt and use their images on his website. I say no for obvious reasons and then he goes on again about therapeutic, stuck in the house, good for kids. I stop him and tell him he's been coming on really fucking strong and if we decide to do something, we'll come to him. He apologized awkwardly and walked away.
I feel bad and want to help him, but he's obviously on something and who knows how much of the money he's going to keep for himself. So we're going to have the boys design some shirts and I'll take some close ups (no faces) and let him use them on his site.
Being his neighbor, I can't have awkwardness from here on out, so it's a price to pay for peace in the hood.- he's trying to benefit & profit off the crisis. Lame AF!Krassy
- Good on you for telling him he's being too extra...robotron3k
- You did the right thing.webazoot
- You stepped in it now, this is just the beginning. He's going to start increasing his asks to you.zarkonite
- Claiming millions of people simply doing their paid job duties as heroes devalues those who undertake exceptional acts of instinctual, life-threatening bravery********
- ^Krassy
- those who undertake exceptional acts of instinctual, life-threatening bravery are people simply doing their paid job dutiesimbecile
- ^Krassy