I’ve been working for the last several months on a school fundraiser for L’s school. It is a 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run. The event over now, THANKFULLY, but my work continues as we wrap things up. Today we were discussing the Spirit Trophy which will go to the classroom with the most participants. The PTO President considers it “unfair” to award the trophy using percentages. For instance if one class A had 8 of 28 students, while class B had 7 of 20 students participate, she felt it needs to be awarded to class A. Percentage-wise class B has a higher percentage of participating students. Am I wrong here? Isn’t it unfair to NOT use percentages? Geez…doesn’t she watch The Biggest Loser? Come on!
Secondly, now that my husband is deployed, I have unwillingly been pulled into the “protective bubble” of our dear friends and neighbors. They are a lovely couple and we have a good time with them. However, she is a Know-It-All just like me. This evening we were having some strong thunderstorms with hail and wind. She sent me a text message that we should go to the basement. I know weather, I’m from the Midwest…this was NOT basement weather. So I replied to her text that we’d had no hail, we were fine, and that the worst was over. She wrote back “no it's not”. So thinking that maybe I had missed something, but desperately hoping I had not (because Know-It-Alls hate to be wrong) I looked on the computer for the radar pictures. Sure enough, the worst was over. So I sent her a text saying as much. She writes back “oh, well they just updated that then.” RIGHT…….. SURE THEY DID…..
I know there is very little difference between my friend and I except one little thing. She is crazy and I am right.
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