Way to Ask for Money: Beg, Badger, Barter and Bazookas

We get slammed silly with requests for money, don’t we? Whether it’s that hilarious e-mail from Nnandia in Nigeria who has forgotten the password to his bank account and lost his puppy to civil war, or the salvos from the predictable PTA moms or the “Buy this product and be instantly fixed forever,” someone is always asking for something.     We get “buy now, get one free” or “BOGOed” to death. It becomes just white noise sometimes.   I’ll [...]