Shake The Tin....
......... whatever next.
A few years ago, I took a group of air cadets to sell poppies in Daventry. A simple task I thought - stupid boy!!
First, the manager of a well known supermarket chain asked that we didn't hang around outside the main door of his store; apparently customers could be embarrassed at being pressurised into buying a poppy, ipso facto bad for supermarket business.
Second, I was to brief the cadets that this was a 'passive' event: rattling the tins and any sort of urging of the great unwashed to buy a poppy was considered 'intimidatory behaviour'.
There are times I do wonder!
O-D