weird, can anyone help me out

markopantelic

ok this mite seem a bit weird but today i was walking down grafton st. when a teenage girl(im a teen myself) comes out of the blue and says ''can i ask you a question' in a fairly nice manner, however i found it a bit weird and said 'nah your grand thanks' and kept walking i felt like such a prick because maby she needed some help, but she was local, she had no id or anything so i dont think she was a chugger. i do actually feel bad, so if that girl is on here im so sorry

Davy

I wouldn't feel to bad, normally when someone just stop you like that in town, its for the usual reasons. If she needed directions or something, she would probably have started with,, "sorry do you know where blah is"

If she was looking for directions, im sure shes not still lost

Brimmy

You fool. She wanted in your pants. Or was working for a charity or something.

Probably wanted in your pants though.

CianRyan

If she was hot you're a fool.:pac:
The charity people start of with charity stuff.

markopantelic

i was thinking that, but that wouldnt happen in ireland and plus im not exactly hot property like lol although the 1% chance that she did come up to me like to ask me out or something is why i feel bad especially if her friends were close by.

yeah cian she was hot , **** please tell me she wasnt going to ask me out!!!!! confident girl nah but really 'can i ask you a question' this is a very interesting way to begin a conversation.

punchdrunk

there's a place that does free haircuts on Grafton and i used to get offered them quite a bit,how's your Barnet looking?

Gavin "shels"

Hanley Centre people most likely, in future just say you're not 18 and they can't sell you the scratch cards, that's what I do even though I'm 18.:cool:

markopantelic

punchdrunk wrote: »

there's a place that does free haircuts on Grafton and i used to get offered them quite a bit,how's your Barnet looking?

this might be it, **** she was hot and she noticed my crappy hairstyle.:mad:

Anto McC

Gavin shels wrote: »

Hanley Centre people most likely, in future just say you're not 18 and they can't sell you the scratch cards, that's what I do even though I'm 18.:cool:

You big rebel!!!! Next you'll be going upstairs on buses, ya mad yoke

January

Yep, say it was Hanley Centre...

markopantelic

whats hanley centre?

humberklog

markopantelic wrote: »

whats hanley centre?

The guise is scratch cards to save addicts. Or some such guff.

Davy

humberklog wrote: »

The guise is scratch cards to save addicts. Or some such guff.

Cant remember the exact figure but rough 50 cent from the €2 goes to the seller itself

lightening

I saw a similar one a while ago, an Indian girl was asking for directions, she had got out of her hubbys/boyfriends car and was on the road stopping a guy in a suit. I reckon, because of her sari the fella thought she was maybe a Roma gypsy and ignored her!! When the girl insisted on following him and saying "excuse me, I am just looking for directions" in her beautifully cultured Indian accent he realised what was going on and was mortified! In the end he gave her directions of course.

Degsy

Davy wrote: »

Cant remember the exact figure but rough 50 cent from the €2 goes to the seller itself

I used to "work" for them.
We sold lines at a pound each..we'd get 40 pence,our supervisor got 20 pence,his supervisor got twenty pence,10 pence went for printing and stuff and the "charity" got ten pence in the pound..i sold hundreds and hundreds of lines and i never heard of anybody winning the 600 quid top prize.

Collie D

10% to the charity...FFS...if I ever bought the things I would stop

lightening

Degsy wrote: »

I used to "work" for them

I'd say you loved that.

stovelid

markopantelic wrote: »

ok this mite seem a bit weird but today i was walking down grafton st. when a teenage girl(im a teen myself) comes out of the blue and says ''can i ask you a question' in a fairly nice manner, however i found it a bit weird and said 'nah your grand thanks' and kept walking i felt like such a prick because maby she needed some help, but she was local, she had no id or anything so i dont think she was a chugger. i do actually feel bad, so if that girl is on here im so sorry

One day Daddy Rabbit wakes up and there have been strange changes to his body.

Same with Mummy Rabbit.

Mummy Rabbit holds Daddy Rabbit's hand and says that she is having strange urges......

Degsy

lightening wrote: »

I'd say you loved that.

It was actually good crack and you made good money..back in 1990 i could clear 30 quid a day which was not to be sneezed at.
The problem was when certain areas became saturated with sellers (like crown alley) then there'd be complaints from businesses and we'd get told to lay off the area for a while.

lightening

Degsy wrote: »

It was actually good crack

Can you explain why you target certain people? Obviously you get fairly wide at guessing who is likely to stop and chat and who won't give you the time of the day. You get good at reading people.

I never get stopped, I'm not unfriendly looking or anything, I don't have a shaved head and lots of visible tattoos, but I never get stopped.

Degsy

lightening wrote: »

Can you explain why you target certain people? Obviously you get fairly wide at guessing who is likely to stop and chat and who won't give you the time of the day. You get good at reading people.

I never get stopped, I'm not unfriendly looking or anything, I don't have a shaved head and lots of visible tattoos, but I never get stopped.

Never,ever ask people in suits as they wont give you the time of day,this applies to men and women.
People who look they're in ah urry,striding purposefully along are also a no-no as they havnt got time to stop and chat or they're in a hurry.
When i was doing it i was a punk rocker so i tended to target curehead and goth girls,they would usually stop and once you've rattled off your speil that was more than half the battle.
Basically as you say,you can come to read people and thier potential reactions although there are surprises..one bloke in particular was a bit of a weirdo and would but 50 quids worth of lines off a girl who worked with me.

lightening

That's gas. A few weeks on the job and you can read people like a book! Excellent street training!!

Degsy

lightening wrote: »

That's gas. A few weeks on the job and you can read people like a book! Excellent street training!!

Not allways..one bloke stuck a syringe through his cheek and walked off laughing..i didnt really expect that!

humberklog

Degsy wrote: »

Not allways..one bloke stuck a syringe through his cheek and walked off laughing..i didnt really expect that!

That wouldn't have been in the Chugger's Handbook.

I did a stint for a week with The Liffey Trust selling fripping poxy fire drill charts to houses and on the street. I sold one. It was around '86. Thankfully Guinness came to the rescue with a summer job.

January

I used to "work" for them too, gave it up when a group of scumbag teenagers (didn't even try to stop them) walked by and one of them slapped me in the face. Fun times!