You watch too much TV! Hair shirt, huh? I've bought toys for Blue Star Mothers, Toys, for Toys for Tots, donated money at the checkout of Shop-Rite, donated canned goods for a food drive, hell, when do I get anything?
Yeah, I know, Tis the season to be jolly and all that, so I bought myself, 2 Whitman's Samplers! 1 for guests and 1 for ME! A box of candy with directions, so you get to eat the ones YOU want! I've sent out 4-25 card boxes of Christmas cards! You happy now, Post Office? Watched practically EVERY Christmas Movie EVER made, so I could cry into fancy Kleenexes! Going across the street to watch cute kids do a Christmas Play, next week, (bringing Kleenex to that, too)! I even have a cute female MOOSE in a Sleigh! Thank you, Sarah Palin! Going to cuddle up in my Jammies on Christmas Eve, with a full shot of Southern Comfort in a cup of egg-nog and watch Midnight Mass! Fa-La-La-Lah, La La La Lah! So there! Merry Christmas, everybody! --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, marioa...@... wrote: > > In a message dated 12/15/2008 10:33:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > oakd...@... writes: > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, MarioAPNJ@ wrote: > I just spoke with Laurie at the Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean She > concurred with the Wegmans' executives I spoke with last year: Year-round appeals > tend to result in compassion fatigue, and people then tend to ignore the > appeals. > > I thought Wegs was y round. I'll say ok to a $1 or more at checkout based on > guilt. > - if you buy candy, ice cream or soda (things you really don't need...) > > We tip more for booze and lousy food. Imagine tipping the food bank 15% of > your food order. > > =============================== > > > Wegs' has posted that their donate-at-checkout service ends around 12/22. > I had a go-around with them last year, and vented about it here. > > But now FoodBank's Laurie has confirmed the compassion fatigue syndrome that > Wegs mentioned back then. > Everything is a syndrome these days. Some seem bogus to me, like Restless > Leg Syndrome which sounds like a drug company marketing invention. > > But I can identify with compassion fatigue; I first experienced it thanks to > Sally Struthers' appeals on late night TV. > Now, thanks to Wiki, I learn that I was not alone: "The ironic disparity > between her activism for starving children and her own weight gain was parodied" > in South Park's Starvin' Marvin episodes. > > You're right about the guilt thing about unnecessary purchases, > so I figure the sting of pointing to the $5 bar code is more humane and a > technological improvement over the pain of self-flagellation or the discomfort > in wearing a hair shirt in Press Plaza. > > It's also more effective than saying three Hail Marys. ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and > favorite sites in one place. Try it now. > (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010) > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
