This post today is dedicated to to the poor, unfortunate souls who parade around on your city or suburban sidewalks in freezing weather for a lousy $7 an hour. Yes, that's right, I'm talking about the costumed wavers for Liberty Tax Service. I'm sure that you've seen hundreds out there as I have, dressed up as Uncle Sam or The Statue of Liberty, unloved and unappreciated as they wave unnoticed for hours at a time.
What I propose is a contest to give something back to these people and make them feel at home on our streets. The points system is as follows:
Waving back while in your car (a smile is optional) (1 point)
Honking your horn as you go by (2 points)
The honk and wave (3 points)
Buying them a cup of coffee or hot chocolate at a gas station or Dunkin Donuts (5 points)
Buying them a Venti Starbucks with an overpriced dessert (10 points)
Writing your Congreesman and/or Senator to move back the tax return date to September 15 (15 points)
Feel free to have a handy-dandy notebook at your side in your car to keep track of your daily points as I have.
3 comments:
Mike is really weird. Yeah.
I haven't seen any Liberty Tax Service wavers around the greater Motown area...we have the usual guys with signs about $5 pizzas, or the ones working for companies that are going out of business (Everything Goes, Nothing Held Back!) Would the point system apply to them?? Please advise, mOm
"We mock what we don't understand."
And yes, the rules will generally apply to all "in the industry," if you will.
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