Anyway gonna take a break now to just chill and chat with GF and BLOG. Because apparently my blog readership has doubled in the recent weeks (lol) and so.. have to appease the masses eh.
Yesterday I went to
Anyway, it was an interesting experience, as you get to see the different types of reactions people have. They are not necessarily from best to worst, I'm just writing what I can think of.
1) The nice kind souls
The best to have. When you stick out your hand with the fugly flyer, these are the people who already make eye contact you from a slight distance, and smile and some actually say 'Thank you'. Such nice people!
2) The nice but not kind souls
One step below 1), these people will smile and say 'Thank you' BUT they won't take the flyer!! Wth! So weird. Just help to take la, don't you know flyer distributors usually work on a quota.
3) The nice but not kind souls 0.5
One step below 2), these people will smile and gesture 'no' with their hands as they walk past. I'll usually smile sheepishly at these people like 'hey, just doing my job' kind of smile.
4) The kiasus
These are those who are always out for a discount or bargain or something - You can tell by the way their eyes light up when they see you giving out something. They will make eye contact from a distance - not with YOU, but with the FLYERS as they try to read how many percent off the flyer willl give them.
These are easy targets, they actually walk TOWARDS us so we don't even have to thrust the flyer towards them haha.
And bestie had a theory that many indians were like that. (SHE SAID IT NOT ME)... which was partially true.
5) The blind
These people suddenly become blind when they are within 5 minutes of us. Well maybe not blind, but it's like they put on blinders, so they have tunnel vision. They will totally ignore us and pretend we are non-existent and saunter past quickly. No eyecontact whatsoever.
6) The nonchalant, curious people
These people don't mind taking the flyer just to see what it is, but they don't mind not taking either. They continue in their normal walking path, but if you put the flyer in front of them, they'll just take it for fun. (I'm from this group! I'll always take the flyer then fold a heart then leave it somewhere/throw it away)
7) The ninjas
These people are hilarious. Me and chris(bestie) strategically positioned ourselves on the right and left of this walkway into expo, lined by pillars (from Expo MRT when you turn left and walk down the pathway into expo, that pathway)
So basically even if they try to avoid one side of the pathway to avoid one of us, they will be walking closer to the other one of us.
THEN these ninjas, they are SO afraid of us that they walk BEHIND the pillars to avoid us!
Let me draw a picture so you can understand:
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| The circles are the pillars, the arrows dictate the general traffic flow |
Like walao take one flyer will die meh. Very heavy ah one piece of paper. Dustbin just 10 metres away only.
Whenever I notice these people, I always purposely approach them to give a flyer. Like I'll pretend not to see them... then when they are almost past me.. I suddenly turn and step towards them and thrust out a flyer.
Think you can dodge me? GOTCHA.
Yup that's all I can think of. All in all, we were paid $75 :D Yea babeh, $15/h woot.
I don't quite understand why a flyer job would pay by hour though. It makes much more sense to pay by quota, meaning you give out xx number of flyers you get paid xx. Rather than by time... which means you can just go hide and slack and they also won't know.
NOT THAT WE DID, OF COURSE. WE WERE EXTREMELY HARDWORKING AND STOOD 5 HOURS STRAIGHT. ok thanks bye :D
