Door-to-door canvasser
So I was at a friend's house yesterday when someone knocked at the door. My friend went to answer the door only to be greeted by a door-to-door canvasser from a large, extremely well-known national charity. She started introducing herself and giving her presentation and my friend acknowledged that he, too, had done his share of canvassing and knew what it can be like. The canvasser suddenly became agitated, almost ready to be argumentative, and then broke into tears. My friend was very startled by this behaviour and asked if she was okay. She then said she was having a bad day, left and sat down on the curb in front of his house totally crying for all the neighbours to see. This was very disturbing to both of us and seemed like very odd behaviour for a door-to-door canvasser.
My friend and I looked at each other thinking what to do. My friend grabbed a tissue and went outstide to talk to her. My friend ended up making a donation but was quite disturbed by the whole incident and actually felt that this is not how the donation process should work. I don't think it is fair to this canvasser nor the people that answer the door to have to be put through this type of stress. (Although my friend did not say anything to the canvasser, both of us actually have a couple of issues with some of the political choices this organization has made in the past and would probably like to contribute to organizations that are more aligned with our ethics and not what we believe to be as questionable politics but yesterday sure did not seem like the time to bring up this topic for discussion.) It seems to me that this very large and well known charity should get their stuff together and not be sending out people door to door who are not cut out for this type of work. I don't expect anybody who reads this to be able to do anything but I thought if I shared it, it might make me feel less disturbed.
My friend and I looked at each other thinking what to do. My friend grabbed a tissue and went outstide to talk to her. My friend ended up making a donation but was quite disturbed by the whole incident and actually felt that this is not how the donation process should work. I don't think it is fair to this canvasser nor the people that answer the door to have to be put through this type of stress. (Although my friend did not say anything to the canvasser, both of us actually have a couple of issues with some of the political choices this organization has made in the past and would probably like to contribute to organizations that are more aligned with our ethics and not what we believe to be as questionable politics but yesterday sure did not seem like the time to bring up this topic for discussion.) It seems to me that this very large and well known charity should get their stuff together and not be sending out people door to door who are not cut out for this type of work. I don't expect anybody who reads this to be able to do anything but I thought if I shared it, it might make me feel less disturbed.
