My son’s school sent home another fundraiser packet.
This one is for candles. Last month was cookie dough. Before that, wrapping paper. Before that, a fun run where I paid money so my child could run around the same field he already runs around for free.
The prize for selling thirty candles is a plastic drone that will break before dinner.
I work full time. I do not want to pressure coworkers, relatives, or the woman who cuts my hair into buying a twenty eight dollar candle called Coastal Homework.
I sent twenty dollars directly to the school and returned the packet untouched. My son says this means he cannot attend the prize party.
Was I supposed to participate anyway?
Now the comments get a turn.
Read the room, state your case, and try not to become the reason the next submission exists.