of Starlight, star bright

Starlight Day was great.
I had fun selling flashing star wands and squishy stress balls that looked like stars.
and I was carrying the pouch full of moolah so everytime my fellow volunteers made a sale aka made a deposit, I felt the pouch getting heavier.
and we did really well. Half of the stuff we brought were gone in 2 hours!
but then again, we totally had our selling strategy down pat.
lols. we had like battle plans for strategic standing locations to sell our wares and strategic conversation starters.
and I looked really young compared to the other volunteers, so I had to smile sweetly and looked at the elderly couples strolling around with big innocent eyes and go "Would you like to help the kids today?". lols.
it's part of the "hook, line, sinker" strategy that we had going on.

it was great fun manipulating the shopping masses.

but I did notice that most of our buyers seemed to be in the middle-income/elderly/family group. they were just out on a Saturday, enjoying Bourke St mall and happened to chance upon our Starlight Children's stall and decided to get a few things to help the kids.
some even came specifically up to our stall to buy merchandise as they knew it was Starlight Day.
whereas those young adults/teens who were toting Sportsgirl/Esprit/Supre shopping bags with annotook a cursory glance and stalked off. it was totally infuriarating. and I seriously do mean that 95% of them just walked off.
if you have the money to buy clothes, couldn't you spare 5 bucks to buy something from us?
and if you already spent all your money buying short Supre dresses, i'm quite sure that you had some spare coins in your pocket from all the shopping right? so just drop some change into the donation bucket then.

this may sound like an overstatement.
but behind the facades of skinny jeans, poofed-up hair, statement tees, oversized shoulder bags, branded luxury items, there really is not much going on in the generosity department.
don't they know that they were kids once upon a time?