Robot Chuggers

Nobodies fault but mine? In the city today, using card payments at a stationary shop, a pharmacy, a burrito cafe, a Japanese cafe and a Tesco. With each card transaction came a request to donate to charity. When did this become commonplace? I know nothing to zilch about the causes mentioned via a few blurry pixels on a card machine's tiny screen either. I'm fine with making informed donations when I choose to but don't press this onto me and every other customer each time someone spends a relatively small amount of money. 

Here was I simply trying not to grumble but it's David Cameron's Big Society dream haunting us from the Tory graveyard. Government backs off from aid and assistance and charities are pushed into corners. Times are hard I know but I don't need the guilt trips and the random passive aggressive bombardment that these messages send. Don't abdicate responsibility to a robot device just because our lords and masters have abandoned you. Also don't use language like "it's cool not to donate" when I choose not to donate. FFS.

Maybe going back to dirty cash isn't such a bad idea.

Back home, here's some boats resting.