sportshack06
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Didnt feel like being lazy and searching for the upteen bitchy parents threads already started, not to mention, this one just struck me as a different breed.
Local prep school here had homecoming last Friday. Small town area, one of two preps in the county. We instruct photog to get the queen only, and not the runner up, congeniality bull ****...Not to mention, the basketball homecoming queen is "crowned" on a basis of funds raised. The candidates sell tickets to the game (or have daddy buy the crown for them as has been known to happen) and the funds raised go into the school's basketball fund. Which makes the accomplishment that much more bull****, but I digress...
Photog does just as we ask, our guy who covered the game even buries that someone was crowned as homecoming queen into his story.
I come to my desk tonight to find a phone message taken by someone in the office. Wonders why we didnt have the photo of the first and second runner-up, as this had always been a practice at our place. (side note, i'm not sure why they left this **** on the sports desk, either)
Of course, after scanning our clips of previous years, BEFORE sending the photog out on Friday, we had not done as she said.
The note then includes the names of said first and second runner-up...and then closes with the tag-line of all tag-lines.
"She (the caller) said that these girls worked so hard raising money to not get their photo in the paper."
With all these hard working teenagers these days, they may very well need Tom Brokaw to get on writing the next edition of The Greatest Generation for them.
Local prep school here had homecoming last Friday. Small town area, one of two preps in the county. We instruct photog to get the queen only, and not the runner up, congeniality bull ****...Not to mention, the basketball homecoming queen is "crowned" on a basis of funds raised. The candidates sell tickets to the game (or have daddy buy the crown for them as has been known to happen) and the funds raised go into the school's basketball fund. Which makes the accomplishment that much more bull****, but I digress...
Photog does just as we ask, our guy who covered the game even buries that someone was crowned as homecoming queen into his story.
I come to my desk tonight to find a phone message taken by someone in the office. Wonders why we didnt have the photo of the first and second runner-up, as this had always been a practice at our place. (side note, i'm not sure why they left this **** on the sports desk, either)
Of course, after scanning our clips of previous years, BEFORE sending the photog out on Friday, we had not done as she said.
The note then includes the names of said first and second runner-up...and then closes with the tag-line of all tag-lines.
"She (the caller) said that these girls worked so hard raising money to not get their photo in the paper."
With all these hard working teenagers these days, they may very well need Tom Brokaw to get on writing the next edition of The Greatest Generation for them.
