As wonderful as it was to feel productive for 48 hours, said job involved an activity that could be easily used as a form of torture: handing out flyers in New York City.
"I hope you dressed warm today," the boss said as I arrived to temporary job.
"How nice of him to care..." I thought, not realizing the reason behind this question- an impending 45-minutes of finger-face-numbing cold handing out papers to unwilling passers-by.
If you've been to NY I'm sure you know that the only thing New Yorkers fear more than people handing out flyers is BED BUGS and high rent. I think you need to be a person of extremely strong character and possess sky-high levels of self-esteem NOT to be permanently perturbed by an experience such as begging New Yorkers to take your flyers.
As you can tell, my experience started out poorly.
An example of an exchange I had with random street-dawdler:
Me: "There's a really great sale going on upstairs if you're interested!"
Scared Person: "Ok"
Me: "Would you like to come? IT'S UPSTAIRS!..?"
SP: "No.... Thanks..." (insert impatient glare)
Me: "Will you at least take a flyer...?"
SP: "Sure...."
Me: "You can throw it away later..."
After that point, I helplessly flailed flyers in the face of an on-coming barrage of people who would a)ignore me b) glare at me or c) just say NO and walk on. (C was the most infuriating of all) People will go to great lengths to evade walking in the path of your flyers. But I relished in catching the ones who tried to run away. MUAHAHAHAH! And I think I fell in love with all the ones who actually did take a flyer.
I went from anger...(ITS JUST A FLYER I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU HERPES OR MAKE YOU UNDERGO A SCIENTOLOGY STRESS TEST PEOPLE)
to soul-crushing defeat...(WHY DO YOU HATE ME I'M SO COLD WHYYY)
back to anger... (I HATE YOU SOULLESS PEOPLE!)
to a severe ego shattering...(WHATS WRONG WITH MEEE??)
then right back to anger (GRRRR ROARRRR)
Hahaha you're welcome!!!!!
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