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is it fun? is it fair? is it a fun fair?????

so on friday night mapboy's school had the anticipated fun fair!! this is a family event where you buy tickets to play silly games to win tickets to change over for plastic prizes! you know...all those things mom's love to find around the house and one by one toss in the trash!!

mapboy and all the other students had spent the month earning "dunn dollars". they were given these for good behavior and a variety of other things. mapboy came home with 45 and he was excited to bid on something at the children's silent auction. now, most of you have kids and most of you have probably done a silent auction as an adult. can you imagine 150 kids 1-4 grade getting the silent auction concept? but, hey, i'm a willing participant. so we head in there to place our bids...thinking he has enough to bid on several things we start bidding. then we are told we can only win one item. since the place is INSANE!!!! we place all 45 on an item he wants and go back to the gym for some more fun. at 8:20 we are asked to come back and pick up our item if we win.

can i just say (and i know the pto people had great intentions!) it was a madhouse!!?!?!? parents were cussing each other out, kids were crying, pto members were cussing and yelling at everyone!!!! it was total chaos. granted it was a public school and things were very tense, but i'm so disappointed in the way people conducted themselves.

to make a very long story short...at 9:15 i gave mapboys bid number and dunn dollars to a friend who had no choice but to stay. at 10:00 she showed up with our item and said they were still going. kids were crying b/c they didn't get anything and the dunn dollars they had earned were just gone. kids were crying b/c they gave their item to someone else b/c at the time they called them they were someplace else in the building. parents were screaming and yelling at each other. kids were winning 3 things and others were only getting their 1...

needless to say the event ended with no fun, no fairness, and a lot of heartache. i know the women in charge had great intentions...it just went awry. many parties are at fault..

what a night that was....while i was in the midst of turmoil, hubby was at our church for a community prayer time and getting a glimpse of God!!!! it was amazing to me how 2 miles from where i was he was and we were most definitely in 2 different worlds that night!!

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Natalie said…
wow...that does sound like a bad situation. i'm sure the idea looked good on paper--as they always do!
November 7, 2007 at 2:01 PM
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