I cling to the hope that it won’t happen, the dreaded extra donation or round up question. We all know the conversation sort of goes like this:
Cashier, “Would you like to donate $1.00 to benefit the Benevolent Sisters of the Poor today?”
Me, “No thank you, not today.”
Cashier, “There is an extra field if you would like to leave a tip.”
Me thinking… I just drove here to pick up a coffee, which is already expensive.
And so, it goes. Like many people, I use Amazon’s Alexa, which responds to most of my commands. Once I asked her to play a classical music composer Aaron Copland while I did one of my morning chores. As an aside the chore was making the bed. My lovely bride had asked me to please put on the more than 20 pillows and make it look nice. Making the bed is an entire effort and can be covered in a later article. Back to Alexa. Alexa heard my request for Copland, but then asked if I would like to spend an extra $6.00 for unlimited music that plays Copland. To which I responded, “No, I would not!”
Now we have moved the upsell into the future. My rant is this: commercialism, advertising, and upselling is rampant. To combat it, I have decided to begin asking those who ask me for donations to donate to me so I can donate a portion back to them. I don’t have my donate button set up, but I guess if you want to give a thumbs up I can convert this into good will.