Today I worked at a winter farmers market.
A reader of my fruit blog stopped by to say that I should do the blog this year wrapped in an appeal for every reader to give $1. That way I can raise $5000 to go back to live in Argentina in the off season. I told her that last year I made a light-hearted, non-obnoxious plea for donations and netted like $11.
But she seemed convinced that if I named a dollar amount and had a specific goal in mind, I could make it happen. I am. . . skeptical, to say the least. But she was so earnest about it.
Myself, I wouldn't read the blog of some asshole who wanted me to give him a dollar so that he could go fritter it away in South America.
But, then again, I see so many bullshit concepts that work and I end up thinking, "Hey, why can't I be that asshole?"