Originally posted by Nash
If the old farts in government were dropping like flies on account of man-breast cancer, there'd prolly already be a cure.
I did find a way to get more guys interested in the problem. on a job a couple years back the foreman was trying to collect money to sponsor his mother in the breast-cancer walk thing.
he didn't feel right collecting the money himself (kind of unfair pressure to have the foreman ask you to donate), so he asked if I would (I was the steward on the job), and said he'd match whatever I could collect. so after getting approval (all collections need approved) I tried to raise the cash.
I didn't have much luck at first, most of the guys didn't seem real interested. the "it could be your mother, your daughter, your wife" angle didn't help much.
so then I found an angle that did. -
"your a guy, right? you like breasts don't you? without some progress on this disease we will continue to have more and more women walking around without breasts. what do you mean you don't care? you're not gay are you? oh, and btw- the foreman already agreed to match any funds I raised so if you donated a he'd have to match yours along with everybody else's, you could give a lot and it would really stick it too him"
some donated just 'cause they like the originality of the approach, maybe some finally donated because they where shallow enough that this was the only way to get their attention, I don't much know or care why. in the end though out of the 11 guys on the job I was able to collect about $650. not a lot by any means but still I figure not to bad from a bunch of working guys who don't exactly have an abundance of $$
