"Donuts for charity, donuts for charity"
People rushing from one lecture to another, ignoring the dudes selling donuts. Some even pretend that they never heard our voices or never saw us no matter how sweet our smiles or how friendly we approached them.
"Donuts for charity mam?"
She smiled whilst replying, " Oh, I don't know we have competitor." This lady is one of the people working for the cafe of The Exchange Building in Jubilee Campus. I smiled, I approached the wrong target customer.
An matured looking gentleman walk pass the stall.
"Donuts for charity, sir?" said one of the fella selling the donuts.
"Pardon me, I'll donate some money but you can take the buns. I am in the middle of my teachings." It happens that he is one of the lecturers rushing to get some coffee. Who knows he might be one of the top professors in the university? I smiled.
"How much is the donut?" asked a guy. When we said the price and the money will go to charity, it still didn't manage to make him contained his feelings and uttered the words, "What? £1 for a donut? That's expensive!" Later on, he pretended that his phone rang, talked into it and walked away. I smiled, because I saw his phone was completely blank and nobody was calling.
Entering maghrib, it was around 5pm. We took turns performing our maghrib prayers at a corner and selling the remaining donuts.
"Donuts for charity? Come on sir, you know you want them," one of us said to a guy walking to and fro passing us. Finally he stopped by, bought some donuts and we smiled.
Closing Time
It was about time we packed up. Out of sudden, a couple of people came to buy a box of donuts each. Few boxes of donuts sold in a matter of minutes when we were about to wrap up.
At the end of the day, I felt this feeling tingling in my vein, the feeling that I can't really find words for it. It was a happy, satisfying, worth the effort, tiring but fun experience. What touched me most was I can see how I react at other times when other people were trying doing the effort of selling things or fund raising for charities. I can see sometimes I ignored like they weren't there, I pretended I didn't hear or see them, some people pretended the phone rang when the phone was completely blank, talked into it and walked away. What ever reaction people gave me that day, it reflected back on me.
Now I know how they feel.
Donuts for Charity? But attention was on their iPhones -_-"Ibn MuSa
Dunkirk 2010
Zulhijjah 1431
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