THEY have blocked your path on every high street, wearing their cheery grins and clipboards, and requesting only a moment of your time and all of your bank details.
Usually though, these direct approach fundraisers – or 'chuggers', as they prefer to be known – are bothering you because they want you to help Mend The Children or save the Peruvian dancing sloth from extinction.
From tomorrow, though, everything is going to change.
With the backing of all the eurozone members, a team of 30,000 chuggers will hit Britain's streets, taking direct debits from you – to bail out the Greek economy.
EU President Herman Van Rompuy explained: “Nobody wants to see Greece leave the eurozone. And nobody wants to see a chugger.
“But one or the other has to happen, and we've decided that for the good of the entire EU family, Britons are just going to have to put up with more dreadlocked numpties leaping in front of them outside HMV for a while longer.”
Mr Van Rompuy stressed Britain is not alone in sharing the burden of fixing Greece.
In Germany, a run of television adverts will begin next week, pleading with people to pour their cash down a different drain to normal, by giving to Greece.
The adverts, which have been scheduled for prime-time shows including At Home With Oliver Kahn and David Hasselhoff's Autobahn Adventure, tell viewers that donating just £2-a-month could help a Greek falafel maker buy enough chickpeas to feed a family of four for one hour, or that donating £6-a-month could keep the pavement outside a nightclub on the island of Kos clear of vomit for 25 minutes.
In France, meanwhile, the EU has funded a series of national newspaper adverts, offering readers the chance to sponsor former Newcastle United defender Nikos Dabizas.
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