Free Hugs

Today was HILARIOUS!

I was invited to participate in a ‘free hugs campaign’ in the Queen Street Mall along with four other people. We agreed to stay for an hour and offer hugs freely as a ‘random act of kindness’.

It was beautiful and within a few minutes we had several other people join us. There was quickly close to 30 or 40 people offering hugs.

Within about 15 minutes however a representative from the local Council was asking us to move on. I refused and within another 15 minutes another representative asked me to move on and again I refused. A media crew rocked up and the whole thing turned into a mad frenzy of hugging vs. bureaucracy.

Eventually the Council managed to convince a police officer to get involved and we told we had to move on, or else. So we moved on slowly up the mall, hugging people as we went until we got to the top of the mall, apparently out of jurisdiction of the pedantic Council officials. There we stayed for an extra hour than planned.

Tourists loved us, we hugged them and the world was a little better.

The end.

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