These people are ALL OVER downtown Chicago during the non-wintery months. Geenpeace & Children International are the most common. Like, if I walk four blocks to go get some lunch, I am guaranteed to pass 2 or 3 clusters of them.
My general tactic for dealing with them is to flat-out ignore them just like I do panhandlers. Yeah, it is rude, but when there's somebody asking you for money every block, one runs out of patience real fast.
On the rare occasion that one of them manages to corner me, I usually just tell them that I don't give money or personal information to random people on the street.
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Date: 2008-06-24 03:38 pm (UTC)My general tactic for dealing with them is to flat-out ignore them just like I do panhandlers. Yeah, it is rude, but when there's somebody asking you for money every block, one runs out of patience real fast.
On the rare occasion that one of them manages to corner me, I usually just tell them that I don't give money or personal information to random people on the street.