So I’m sitting in my kitchen deleting emails – as you do, when the phone rings. At the other end of the line is an earnest man asking me to contribute to ‘dogs against drugs’. As you can imagine, I thought it was someone taking the piss, but no – they were really cold calling, asking for a 100% tax deductible donation to what turns out to be a program where police officers take drug sniffing dogs to schools, and pitch the little buggers on the danger of ingesting unknown chemicals sold by shady geezers.
It all sounds very worthy, but I’m not sure I can take seriously anyone who opens their pitch with ‘would you like to donate to dogs against drugs’.