Dear dimwit on the phone

Sure, it's one of the very few I can take credit for as an original.

 

I wasn't here to take this gem:

A grandma in our county called the paper this afternoon, upset that her little granddaughter didn't get a trophy for participating in one of the county's youth softball leagues.

According to the guy I'm working with today, she paraded around town wearing a sign that said every kid should get a trophy for playing. Never mind that it was 90-plus out earlier. Then, she proceeded to call us and rant about it some more. But she did admit to not being the sharpest knife in the drawer ...

Good grief.

 

Did your colleague tell her that there are places that sell trophies? They will even engrave your name for a small extra charge.

 

Could be worse. Last week I was at a senior sports banquet for my second job (I shoot events for a yearbook company) and EVERY one of the 108 seniors who participated in a sport received a custom plaque for their efforts.

Normally, I wouldn't really care but I was at the check-in table and there was a girl who received one who admitted she didn't understand why she was getting a plaque as she DIDN'T participate in anything. At all. Ever.

So, yeah, not only are we rewarding everyone that plays nowadays. We're also rewarding those who don't as well.

TROPHIES FOR EVERYONE!

 

My dentist says I need to avoid plaque

 

Sorry. I always mess those two words up. Didn't realize we had the SJ spelling police in the house.

 

Sounds like Grandma needs to be referred to news-side! An old-lady protester? That's got to be on the front page!

 

There's your story -- the waste of taxpayer dollars and misuse of position by the cop. I'm only partially kidding.

 

Not necessarily. A lot of places the public can purchase that. I could buy a police escort to work and back if I wanted to pay for it.

Last place I worked there was a big public brew-haw because the city was going to start charging for police escorts to funerals. City badly needed to raise some money. Public had gotten this service for free for many years and now was being asked to pay for it.

 

The dimwits must be on vacation ...

 

Funny thing is, Gregg Easterbrook focuses on that in his Monday Morning QB column on ESPN. He gets examples of wasted taxpayer dollars for teams with police escorts.

 

Ain't that the truth! Given the amount of cash these teams rake in, they can afford to pay for their own escorts!

And, while they're at, pay for their own arenas and stadiums, too. (But that's fodder for a different thread.)