The Travails Of A Door To Door Propaganda Person

This last week has been so weird.I have lots of things to write about but i'll just stick to one..for although i know i could make each of it the subject of a post .i know there are some among my few readers that have small attention spans and for them i endeavour to indulge in an exercise of which i am unused to and dislike as well, Brevity!

I spent a good part of every morning , around 2 hours going door-to-door , interrupting every one in the middle of their busy morning (i'm sure) to tell them to segregate garbage into bio degradable and non-biodegradable...because our high court has passed a law on that and our college volunteered the services of the third years (like we have nothing better to do) to go and enlighten people..pah! talk about an exercise in futility!!! Most people , understandably , were'nt too happy to greet us but hey civility is a virtue too! One thing is for sure, far from being rude i'm gonna make sure i'm really polite to people who go door-to-door for anything.

One incident is particularly registered in my memory , of a cantankerous old man yelling at me , and a couple of my friends about how he was a model citizen and we should'nt tell him anything , that he was an environmental activist and that how could we be so careless as to come to his house and tell him anything to do with anything , a couple of well chosen remarks followed, about how college was wasting our time and that we would be better off studying... when all we did was ring the bell and say..sir, i hope u have heard about the new rule that says that u must separate u're garbage! Piece of crap...i hope he rots in hell...well, not really but anyway... i bore the brunt of the yelling simply 'cos i was standing in front... ah well..after 5 minutes of listening to his crap , i gave up trying to explain and pacify him..and i told him that i was sorry i could'nt stay and listen to him the entire morning but i had to go to lots more houses and waste their time...then the couple of my friends burst out laughing and we trapezed off into the sunshine...

Ofcourse , in all fairness there were many people we met that were extremely nice , and very courteous . I guess they could see that we were trying to make the best of a situation that we did'nt particularly relish.

oh! god... i think i'm incapable of it , brevity i mean , especially in the context of narration. well, it was an experience from which i learnt a lot. so i guess all's well that end's well.