So... a pair of street solicitors were working the entrance to the Ballard Market yesterday.

Which is fine, I suppose, and they have every right to do it, and it's all for some good cause or other. But I don't have much patience for spam in its human form, as I said for the record a couple of years ago. As with the email variety: if people didn't respond to human spam, it wouldn't be effective, and it would stop. But just as enough idiots respond to e-spam to make it worth the time and effort for spammers, enough browbeaten, guilt-tripped passersby must respond to human spam to make it worth the time and effort for human spammers.

Anyway, folks were being spammed as they entered the market, and most were streaming by. And then... the human spam started approaching people who couldn't walk on by, people who couldn't brush past 'em. You know, there really ought to be a law against human spam approaching actual humans standing in a line to buy hot dogs from a cart.