I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one that targeted recalcitrant homes for Halloween tricks when I was selling stuff for school.
My favorite memory is of the lady who told me I should go out and get a job to help my school rather then pestering taxpayers for more money. I apologized for troubling her and would have gladly moved on but she spent 20 minutes lecturing to me on how much the School District took from her in taxes already and how they had a lot of nerve sending kids (I was in 7th grade) like me to beg for more.
I got an uholy glee when she approached our youth pastor and asked him to send some kids over to help clean up her yard because some hooligans (her word) had T.P.’d her trees and filled her raingutters with windfall apples. Not so much when she asked for help but when the youth pastor told her we already had helped her twice this year and there were other families that need our assistance. I think she even saw me smile when he said it…Ahhhhhh those were the good old days.
Yeah…I got a lot of splainin to do on Judgement day.
Which is why I never turn away little entrepeurs when they show up at my house. I smile a buy a little from each one. My trees have remained Paper free and my gutters clean.
I wouldn’t TP someone’s house because they didn’t buy something from me but I would do it to this person because she said she’d buy something and then went back on her word. That was a crummy thing to do.
I work at a church, and have to say no to about 50 kids who want me to buy something. I just can’t afford to buy from all of them.The only exception I make is Girl Scout cookies (2 boxes), and I choose a different Scout family each year. I really dislike having to say no, and I really, REALLY dislike the fact that the schools need the kids to do this.
well maybe the schools should try another avenue of cutting expenses like not giving school superintendents such ridiculous pay increases every year. then they wouldn’t need to have students do fundraisers.
I never was a salesman-type person and never will be, I HATE trying to sell stuff to people who don’t want it but might feel guilty if they don’t buy.
I remember having to sell tickets to something-or-other when I was in 4th or 5th grade, I hated going to people I knew (it was a small town) to sell them things.
Everyone’s “sales tally” was put up on the classroom notice board, the under-achievers suffered public humiliation.
What the kids and adults should do is to band together and severely TP & egg the houses of the people responsible for forcing the kids to go through all this.selling
Does anyone else have a problem with Teena’s math? 50 rolls at $7 a roll is $350, not $300. I’ll buy some of your paper girls, the school obviously needs the funding!
It’s just a little strange, as far as I’m concerned. Here in California, we send billions to the state every year, but they have to keep cutting services and taking money away from education. Our state government says we’re broke, but they want to build more prisons. We get more and more illegal immigrants, who of course need water, housing, power, waste facilities, gas, etc., etc., but we’re told this is “good” for us. I sure wish I had all the right answers, or that someone else did, but it just seems to get worse every year. Oh, and PLEASE, don’t use this as an excuse to start ranting about Obama, OK?
Mephistopheles almost 15 years ago
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one that targeted recalcitrant homes for Halloween tricks when I was selling stuff for school.
My favorite memory is of the lady who told me I should go out and get a job to help my school rather then pestering taxpayers for more money. I apologized for troubling her and would have gladly moved on but she spent 20 minutes lecturing to me on how much the School District took from her in taxes already and how they had a lot of nerve sending kids (I was in 7th grade) like me to beg for more.
I got an uholy glee when she approached our youth pastor and asked him to send some kids over to help clean up her yard because some hooligans (her word) had T.P.’d her trees and filled her raingutters with windfall apples. Not so much when she asked for help but when the youth pastor told her we already had helped her twice this year and there were other families that need our assistance. I think she even saw me smile when he said it…Ahhhhhh those were the good old days.
Yeah…I got a lot of splainin to do on Judgement day.
Which is why I never turn away little entrepeurs when they show up at my house. I smile a buy a little from each one. My trees have remained Paper free and my gutters clean.
alondra almost 15 years ago
I wouldn’t TP someone’s house because they didn’t buy something from me but I would do it to this person because she said she’d buy something and then went back on her word. That was a crummy thing to do.
celeconecca almost 15 years ago
I work at a church, and have to say no to about 50 kids who want me to buy something. I just can’t afford to buy from all of them.The only exception I make is Girl Scout cookies (2 boxes), and I choose a different Scout family each year. I really dislike having to say no, and I really, REALLY dislike the fact that the schools need the kids to do this.
Davepostmp almost 15 years ago
Our band director buys from the first kid to ask - but doesn’t advertise that fact.
Templo S.U.D. almost 15 years ago
Maybe Teena and Stick came to the door of Wednesday Addams. (What would she do with the wrapping paper anyway, wrap Pugsley with it?)
bald almost 15 years ago
well maybe the schools should try another avenue of cutting expenses like not giving school superintendents such ridiculous pay increases every year. then they wouldn’t need to have students do fundraisers.
OzzieJohn almost 15 years ago
I never was a salesman-type person and never will be, I HATE trying to sell stuff to people who don’t want it but might feel guilty if they don’t buy.
I remember having to sell tickets to something-or-other when I was in 4th or 5th grade, I hated going to people I knew (it was a small town) to sell them things. Everyone’s “sales tally” was put up on the classroom notice board, the under-achievers suffered public humiliation.
What the kids and adults should do is to band together and severely TP & egg the houses of the people responsible for forcing the kids to go through all this.selling
notinksanymore almost 15 years ago
Does anyone else have a problem with Teena’s math? 50 rolls at $7 a roll is $350, not $300. I’ll buy some of your paper girls, the school obviously needs the funding!
Ushindi almost 15 years ago
It’s just a little strange, as far as I’m concerned. Here in California, we send billions to the state every year, but they have to keep cutting services and taking money away from education. Our state government says we’re broke, but they want to build more prisons. We get more and more illegal immigrants, who of course need water, housing, power, waste facilities, gas, etc., etc., but we’re told this is “good” for us. I sure wish I had all the right answers, or that someone else did, but it just seems to get worse every year. Oh, and PLEASE, don’t use this as an excuse to start ranting about Obama, OK?
Asrial almost 15 years ago
“Vengeance is mine” Says the Lord, Teena. Not sure TP is vengeance, though.