Will you accept a straw from strangers?

No. You have no idea what the person is like. The only person I blindly trust is my wife. Even then I keep one eye open. To accept something without knowing if it was altered in anyway is wrong. You can never be to safe nowadays.

This osunds very strange to me - I have no idea why someone would want to give out free straws. I do not accept many things from strangers not even leaflets. i was stopped today by someone trying to get me to donate money to charity each month. What people who sign up to this do not realise is that in the UK people 'selling' these charity subscriptions get paid £100 per sale.

Well that is a very strange happening indeed! Of all the odd things to give away at a mall...straws?! I'm afraid I would have done just as you did. However, my classic line is, "No thanks, I'm trying to quit." hehe.

Nope I don't think you were wrong in declining the straw offer...There have been times you walk into a store and maybe they're doing some promotional thing and have trays of food to sample...or drinks...or a different flavored coffee..etc, etc...but unless the item was sealed and wrapped up, uh, no I wouln't take it...

This is weird. Why were they given out straws? It is must have been some sort of promotion, but I can't think what they were promoting... except straws.
No, I woudn't accept one. Who knows where they had been, if they were not packaged!
In fact, there are so many promoters in the shoppiung malls nowadays, that I have to walk around them, & if I can't avoid them, I need to very firmly say no thank you.

I refused a ballon this morning when shopping. They are just a nuisance. Why would I want a ballon when I am oushing a heavy, loaded trolley?

i think its really weird. i have never seen somebody distributing straws to the people. hmm, if u ask, my opinion. i would have never accepted straws as its really weird i think. But what was their purpose for it?

It could probably be some kind of a marketing gimmick. maybe it was a kind of advertoisement for a straw company. Or could also be a social study to see how people react to strange situations. You never know nowadays - peope study funny things.
But yeah i dont think I would accept a bunch of straws from some stranger. First of all, i probably wouldnt have need for them while shopping ands its just straws..if I needed them id buy them.

I personally don't get near them. I have a funny story about something similar. My family and I were on vacation. This lady came up to us, and she handed me and my mom this flower she had made out of some kind of paper. We both said thank you, and then she asked for money. We didn't have any on us, as we were just on a walk. Well, we told her no, we didn't have any, and she ripped the flowers out of our hands and walked off. We were floored. We didn't approach her, she approached us, and just handed them. Now because of that, whenever, I see someone selling something, or coming at me with something, I run the other way.

I wonder if they had a drinks shop and were hoping people would immediately want to buy some orange juice.
I wouldn't accept them either.
We sometimes have gypsies in town who try to sell 'lucky white heather' which of course is ordinary heather that they have bleached. They try to put a little tiny bit with its stem wrapped in foil,into your hand and then say cross my palm with silver. They are not so friendly if you hand them a 5 penny piece.The largest silver coin is 50pence which is about $1 .
I always say no thankyou. Not because I despise gypsies,(my mum had some family that were gypsy so it would be silly to despise them) but because they are selling a little piece of plant that they picked from the roadside and are pretending it is lucky.

I think I would have said "no thanks" and left it at that too. I definitely wouldn't take an unwrapped straw that had been handled by people I have no clue about and then put it in my lips! YUCK! lol