Free Money

For this exercise I decided to approach students in the Turlington Plaza area who seemed to be distracted and were heading somewhere important.  They were either wearing headphones walking somewhere, carrying things, or sometimes texting/talking on the phone.  To get the conversation going I would start off with something along the lines of "hey I am sorry to bother you but do you have a quick second? won't take long promise!".  After they agreed I would just say "I just wanted to give you this" and then I hand them the dollar.  A lot of the students seemed caught off guard and they ALL asked me "why?".   My reason that I gave was that I was doing a social experiment of sorts for my YouTube channel, and that I am paying it forward and that I would hope that they would do the same; I also mentioned how it's a way to start off the week well for them and hopefully they can do the same for someone else.  Some people would at first reject but because of the reason I was giving it to them they were willing to accept it.  Out of the 5 bills I was able to give away 4 of them.  I liked the exercise and it was not as hard to give away the money because the reason I gave them was something I believed in and I really hoped they would pay it forward.  At first some of the people I approached seemed to look upset or serious, but the minute I talked to them and explained why I gave them the dollar, they walked away with a smile.

Overall I enjoyed the exercise and it showed that people are more open to help others than they seem.

And sorry for some of the audio, in one of the videos Century Tower decided to go off haha.