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army1987 comments on Open Thread, September 30 - October 6, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 October 2013 05:00:05AM *  2 points [-]

I truly admire a certain friend who can chit-chat on a friendly basis with a street person.

A few months ago I was with a co-worker in the centre of a foreign capital, waiting for some other people, and some guy approached us offering to sell us some marijuana. I told him “I quitted smoking five years ago” and we kept talking about that for about half a minute before he left.

My co-worker was very annoyed that I didn't just ignore the guy.

When a collector for some ineffective charity comes up to me, I solicit him, in a friendly way, to give money to my favorite charity before he has a chance to ask. One I got 1 NIS this way, so I felt obliged to give him a (different) shekel.

That is freakin' awesome.