One day, someone had moved a bunch of long, small boxes into the hall. I took a peek inside one, it was full of registration cards for students dating back to the late 1920's (why they were in a school that was built in 1950 is a mystery). Another set of boxes had similar cards from the 60's. Yeah, they hold onto stuff for a long time, especially now that everything's digital.
When they talked about your
PERMANENT RECORD, y'all thought they were kidding, didn't you?
The Lemonade Stand Incident happened because he wanted some free Lego that was a tie-in with the charity. In order to obtain the Lego you had to pledge to host an event. It's called Alex's Lemonade Stand and it has literally raised millions for research in childhood cancer. He originally stated that he would hold his Lemonade Stand over the course of two days in the parking lot of a now-closed Circuit City. When he realized that he would be a sitting duck for weens and trolls he scurried it over to his church where he could hide in the safety of the annual pot luck. As usual, he half-assed the whole thing by buying some store bought lemonade (and per the charity you can have any type of lemonade you wish, store bought, homemade, etc) and setting out a big bowl of ice and a donation box. He said he raised $50 or so and it was handed over to Rocky and mailed out. He also raised some funds online and those go straight to the charity -- you cannot access those funds for personal use. The thing that completely pisses me off about it is that he put up a big picture of Bob and boo-hooed about how cancer killed his daddy. (It did not) -- Chris paid lip service to a children's cancer charity so that he could get a Lego exclusive targeted at little girls, and as someone who has worked with Alex's Lemonade Stand and as a cancer survivor, I count it among his more nefarious "something for little or no effort" schemes.
Fuck Chris. Seriously. Just fuck him.
I mean I already knew about the lemonade stand scam and all. I watched it happen over the internets. But still, it's reading stuff like this, in all its sordid details all at once, that makes me stop giving a damn about Chris entirely and pushes me to other lolcows.
I believe I've said it before: he's sort of correct there. It's just that he really made the dean's
other list, which is technically also
a dean's list.
Giving Chris a sash, and telling him that it was for making "Honor Roll" wold definitely be the path of least resistance and by far, preferable to dealing with Bob and Barb. We all know that MHS worked with Bob to "negotiate" friends for Chris. Keeping that it mind, it all makes a sort of warped sense.
This is what is wrong with education today. Well, not all that is wrong, but it's still pretty damn wrong.
Whatever. Chris is clearly not a person who has any business spending money without a chaperone ( even if it is Barb.)
Barb is only really fiscally responsible when compared to Chris. Which is to say: not really.
well wouldn't people go after him through small claims or something?
I think they'd have to open a new court for that: smallest claims.
But seriously, unless there's some greater principle involved (and there isn't here), courts hate it when you waste their time with extremely little things like this, especially when in reality the buyers just need to take it up with ebay / paypal. They are generally very good about seeing scammed buyers get done right by, though it will not go well for Chris if they have to. Time to make some popcorn I think.
But if that's the case, why is he so desperate for so much Lego?
Playing with legos is much less "stressful" than dealing with reality. Not that this strategy will end well for him, but he doesn't need to worry about that; he has mommy to worry about it. And even if something really bad happens because he didn't lift a finger to prevent it, Rocky or someone will step in to save him. Again. Won't they? I mean it's always worked that way before…
