Comments on: Dear Little Dipshit…

By: Counsel

Counsel — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:29:24 +0000

I appreciate your feelings, and they are yours. I have stated my opinion elsewhere (and to the residents where I live), and I will post it here:

I understand the failure to appreciate or like kids selling wares of any kind when there are “no soliciting” signs everywhere… I refuse to buy their wares either, but my method differs from yours.

Putting a smile on your lips and providing some education (by explaining to the children what “no soliciting” means) might actually end the behavior you complain about, help educate the children, and prevent those kids from having other pesky children.

Is it your duty? No. Do you have to do anything at all? No.

While you are certainly welcome to let those little pesky kids ruin your mood, laughing at the situation might actually be better for your mental health and the mental health of all of those people around you.

Seems kinda sad that an educated people lets his or her emotions be determined by “other people” outside of their control. Why let anyone whose actions you can not control ruin your day? If you do, your reasoning escapes me…

However, you are an adult and can act as you wish. I hope you have a nice day, but you might already be upset by my post…

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By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:02:51 +0000

I can’t help chuckling whenever I think of people seeing that title popping up in their feed readers and thinking “Uh-oh, I hope VK isn’t talking about me!”

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:41:17 +0000

Our little ones (in elementary school) do NOT participate in school sales. I feel as Jeff does; I will send a donation, but don't expect my kiddo to knock on doors to sell junk. Michele's last blog post..Back to the Commune?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:26:32 +0000

That’s the funniest damn blog post title I’ve seen in awhile..

By: Non Sequitur

Non Sequitur — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:28:35 +0000

Bad Chocolate…

I read a post today, oh boy. It was by my friend, the Venomous One, over at Electric Venom. Apparently, some insolent little bugger of school age decided to go door-to-door hawking some fund-raising candy. It was a decidedly less than stellar encounte…

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:49:46 +0000

I actually think selling Girl Scout cookies was a good experience. I had to overcome my shyness, remember my neighbors’ names and be clean and polite. The neighbors understood because their kids sold stuff back to us.

Your post was funny — and sad. For one thing, you’re so right. That kid didn’t have the basic skills needed to knock on a door. You wouldn’t think you’d need many skills for that, would you? But not eating while addressing an adult, leaving smeared chocolate or having a streetwalker sister thud-thudding in the driveway should be no-brainers. I think he needs to do more than hit the books. He needs you to adopt him and set him straight.

I also think that fundraising is so out of control. Too much from too many organizations. Some of our neighbors actually would call us to find out when our daughter was selling Sally Foster giftwrap because they loved it so (can you believe it?). She did that a couple of years and then we told her to stop because she’d learned how to do it and it required too much organization from me. Really, though, the giftwrap was at least high quality.

By: Trish

Trish — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:41:57 +0000

When I was a kid, we did this – it was fun and allowed. Now the schools are not allowed to do this as it is considered dangerous and putting a child in harms way. Oh, they have the fundraisers still, but no door-to-door is encouraged at all and only friends and family are to buy bars.

Parents now, bring their child’s boxes to work and hock ‘em there…which I think is way better and probably sells a heck of a lot more because who doesn’t get cravings at work?

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By: twoma

twoma — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:03:15 +0000

My daughter was in Band. Up front, at the beginning of the school year, when the pitch came for the fund raiser, I told the teacher I was sending in a check for $25 (clear profit)and that my girl was not going out ringing door bells. Take it or leave it. He took it. Nuff said.

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:04:23 +0000

Nobody ever knocks on my door. I'm so lonely. *sniff* Lincoln's last blog post..Women Aren’t Just Evil, They’re Violent Too

By: Blaine Fridley

Blaine Fridley — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:54:57 +0000

Venomous Kate, I’ve decided I want to be you when I grow up. Well, without the vagina, of course. But damn, the venom was oozing out of my monitor screen…love it!

Luckily, when I was a youth, my parents saw the folly in sending their child out to peddle crappy chocolate and frozen pizzas to get money for the public schools that their elected officials couldn’t.

Keep spewing the venom.

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