What do you say to the folk who try and stop you on the street to do surveys?

"no thanks" and i keep on walking.

I say no and keep walking. Once when i was 10 there was a sales person calling. So my dad answer pretending that he was an Indian who talked weird. The guy said would you like to buy this magazine for a year my dad replied do you have an Indian one? The man sad no. So my dad pretended he was so mad and in the fake voice of his and he started to yell what! You are unbelievable give me your name so I can report you! The name said in a soft voice wow and then quickly said I need to go my dad was like WHAT! Then the man hung up we never got a sales call ever again :-) That was a story from are nutty family email me for more storys I got hundreds lol.

I usually spot the people half a block away--I'm good like that.

When they think they can get to me, I tell them firmly, "No thank you," and keep on walking. I don't even look at them.

The kicker is the body language though....I hunker down slightly, get a bit tight and clenched up in the shoulders, narrow my eyes and get a peeved look on my face. I've had lots of people tell me I'm almost *too good* at this, at radiating and seething anger outward, almost like a force field.

I've had people just drop into silence and back away on rare occasion, usually on the days when I'm *already* peeved and disturbed. ^_^ That's when I know I'm doing too much and that it's overkill.

Pity it doesn't work on the drunks pretending to be "homeless", but hey. (and yes, there are some like that out there)

Just saying....

I say I'll be happy to assist in your request, thank you very much. What's the big deal of helping out your fellow human every once in a while?

If I can I pretend not to hear them, if that doesn't work I say I can't do their survey I have to be somewhere and don't have time.

I pretend I don't know English, and I speak to them in Russian. Then they talk louder and slower to me like I'm retarded. So I give them the finger and walk away.

I say "surveys are the work of Satan" and then I cross myself. That usually works.

Sorry I'm really busy I have to deliver something to shut-ins who are eagerly awaiting their only decent meal of the day!

That usually gets them right out of the way.

Tell them I gave at the office.

If I'm not in a rush I'll stop and answer them. If I'm in a rush, I'll politely tell them I can't.

Smile sweetly and say "Thank You" and continue walking.