moral dilemma:
the company you work for is throwing a baby shower for a fellow employee. in this particular case, it happens to be a 19 year old dumbshit who you hate. you are asked to contribute $15.00 towards her gift. do you:
a) stick to your guns and say, "no way, man."
b) just give them the damned money and eat tons of food at the luncheon to make up for it.
c) keep avoiding the lady collecting money up until the day of the party and then call out sick.
okay, it's not a purely hypothetical situation. why do stupid broads who accidentally get pregnant get parties anyway? what we should get her: a sympathy card and a pack of condoms.
i'm having dinner tonight at megan and doug's place. she's making a meatloaf. how domestic. starting monday, i'm house/dogsitting charlie in pasadena through the end of the month. that's a long time. oh well, the money they're paying me is going towards my cruise- which is only one month and eight days away. but who's counting?
what an incredibly boring day here at work. yesterday was so bad i left early. but that was kind of lame... i just sat around the house watching oprah and dr. phil. there's two hours of my life i'll never get back. oprah's show was on "how to look fabulous without a fortune". yeah, i'm sure she knows all about that. and dr. phil was discussing folks with ocd. that was actually pretty interesting.
lauri: i thought of you while watching that dr. phil episode... lol. you might like to count a lot or whatever but at least you don't wash your hands 75-100 times a day. one of the doctors on there said vitamin b16 helps.
pete: i heard that a very long engagement sucked. that's too bad. you should've dropped a pipe bomb down the return slot. oh! guess who doug met while he and megan were in oakland this past weekend? they were waiting for a table at the cheesecake factory for lunch on sunday when in walked george lucas. they got a picture together. cool, eh? i'll have megan send it to me and then i'll forward it to you.
alex: showbiz chicks are lame.
tim: i'm happy to see you've figured out the blog. no one talks about you behind your back and you're not the sorry one on the 5-11's. how could you be with your mismatched socks? c'mon.
randy: is your dad going to hang around for a while after your back? that'll be cool. then again, maybe you're sick of him.
sheila: get back to work! bye.
2 comments:
$15?!?! Are they going to pay for the birth or something? I would argue that you have every right to not donate. However, expect that the other people in the office will hold it against you. On the other hand, you shouldn't have to encourage steenage slutiness and stupidity. Would you feel obligated to send a gift to a random person that you work with who got hurt in an accident while driving drunk? Hell no.
I argree with Jeff. $5 and I might say suck it up. But $15 is horrendous. Say no. Say you can't afford it. It will be like a statement; "I don't even make enough money to pitch in $15 to a party." Maybe your stand will lead to a raise. maybe you'll be shunned by the teenage single mom masses...either way, you'll still have gas money.
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