Well that was awkward...

Last week, Yvonne made a great post about the awkwardness of going door to door to ask people for interviews. It generated a solid discussion but I just kind of sat back, I didn't see the issue either way and felt that however you wanted to do your interviews, go do it.

Then I started to do more of mine and found that the whole thing definitely was... well, awkward.

The combination of bothering people, asking them about something that is fairly taboo in general conversation and trying to get them to answer questions on something they often know nothing about is pretty lethal sometimes.

One particular person was really bad.

They basically flipped out on me when I asked them what they knew about their councillor and what he had done at City Hall. They got super defensive, clearly bothered by the fact that they didn't actually know the answer and must have thought I was questioning their intelligence. That or calling them a bad person for not knowing.

The bottom line is, they chastised me for being impolite and were pretty frosty for the rest of the talk.

I guess I learned a few things from it.

- People hate talking about politics in general

- People don't like when they feel you question their intelligence.

- A lot of people don't respect student journalists.

- The Tim Horton's on Ferry Road attracts a weird crowd.

I would like to hear what my classmates and any other readers think about those things or if anyone has had similar experiences. Let's discuss. Uh, if that's ok with you of course.

But hey, it could be worse. It wasn't as bad as this. I never liked Randy Orton anyway.