In these hard economic times when money is tight and folk are struggling to pay their bills, one would think they would jump at the chance of a bargain
Not so! – in the UK at least
In this social experiment, a company had attractive women stand at 5 busy bus stations across the UK with a billboard offering to pay anyone’s bus fare. Of the tens of thousands of commuters that passed them, only a tiny minority (average of 8 people at each station) took up the offer
Seems most of us Brits are a cynical bunch too suspicious of a catch somewhere to accept free cash from a stranger !