Times are hard, for everyone. This year it seemed particularly hard to get anyone unconnected with the PTA to donate. We have a 'Mufti Day' (it was called an Own Clothes Day in my day) where the children don't wear uniform but either donate something or donate £1 to go into the coffers but some people don't want to do even that.
On Friday we had to sort things in preparation for the next day & sift through the donations. This is always an interesting task. Some previous donations have included:
A dried up paint set
Unwashed clothes
Tin of soup
Coloured in colouring book
Half used toiletries
and generally a load of old tat
The Fancy Goods Tombola I always feel is a bit of an oxymoron. One mans fancy is certainly another's a bit shit. We started to include a brick a brack stall now as some of the tat donations can certainly be classed as that.
The stall that always does well for donations is the book stall. Whilst setting up on Saturday me & a friend spotted a gem. At first I thought the cover art was a bit unsuitable but then I read the desciption at the bottom.
My friend ferreted the book away (she has been reading it - for research purposes only - and apparently it is fair worse than I could imagine. The one bit she read out to me detailed a man luring children into his house). The headmistress eyes popped out on stalks Tex Avery style when she saw it. Then the Treasurer then found a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover which she then bought as she 'did her dissertation on it'. Yeah, of course she did.
My friend ferreted the book away (she has been reading it - for research purposes only - and apparently it is fair worse than I could imagine. The one bit she read out to me detailed a man luring children into his house). The headmistress eyes popped out on stalks Tex Avery style when she saw it. Then the Treasurer then found a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover which she then bought as she 'did her dissertation on it'. Yeah, of course she did.
But it does make me wonder WTF? Who on earth around here thinks this is suitable to donate to the school. Yes we need whatever people can give but come on, that's just wrong. What next? An influx of 50 Shades of Grey* for the Christmas Fair?
* having read all of the 50 Shades book I feel a blog post coming on...
* having read all of the 50 Shades book I feel a blog post coming on...
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Now I have to get rid of it somehow, I don't want to own it! Possibly the problem the last owner had, hence why it ended up at the school fair. I can imagine throwing it away, only for a fox to rip open my rubbish and it to be found in the street, with a piece of junk mail with my address attached to it...
ReplyDeletechortle. Maybe sell on amazon market place (so you know the recipiant really wants it) any funds donate back to the school or you were wondering what to give the teachers as a present...
Deletebloody genius!! I wonder if you work out which parent donated it!! Thats what I'd wabt to know...what will be next..unwanted Ann Summers items...ahem! ;)Maybe you should start an "adult" stall!...oh my god youve just reminded me of the most cringingly embarrassing event!! My neighbour at my last house asked if my mu sold ex rental dvds in her shop..i said yes..then he said he had a load of adult films that had been given to him by the recently widowed lady living nextdoor to him (why oh why..???)So this was already a little odd but I said yes and so he bought a large box around...more cringing and I had a loiok through and very quickly realised these were very explicit X rated imported adult film..banned in th UK...so not saleable...so then I had to bring him the lot back and explain that they were too explicit for selling and perhaps he should approach an adult "private" shop...rather than he bloody neighbour...he used to creep me out after that..things were never the same but luckily he has moved to Oz now! Oh the weirdness of seeing a dead mans porn stash...yuk
ReplyDeleteThat made me laugh our loud. But Dead man's porn- (sounds like a film title) - eugh. And of course your neighbour was getting rid of it 'for a friend'!
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