Buy a mattress for a good cause, sir?
Feb. 12th, 2012 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitanziI was just out running errands and saw a sign at the end of our road which made me do a bit of a double take. Our local high school's track and field and soccer teams (apparently all together, must be a lot of overlap) are fund raising by selling mattresses.
This struck me odd to begin with - you might pick up a box of cookies or some wrapping paper to support a good cause when your kid or your neighbor asks, but a mattress? It's bulky, not terribly portable, and not the sort of thing where you keep a six pack in the closet for extras.
But then take it one step further. Teenagers going door to door, lugging mattresses, earnestly asking their neighbors to support the team. Coaches and teammates setting up tables in front of the local grocery store or library, piled high with mattresses, touting them to everyone passing by. Parents entreating co-workers to sign up for delivery of a half dozen, "I just want them out of my basement!"
I really, really wonder how well that's working out for them. But not enough to find someone and buy a mattress.
This struck me odd to begin with - you might pick up a box of cookies or some wrapping paper to support a good cause when your kid or your neighbor asks, but a mattress? It's bulky, not terribly portable, and not the sort of thing where you keep a six pack in the closet for extras.
But then take it one step further. Teenagers going door to door, lugging mattresses, earnestly asking their neighbors to support the team. Coaches and teammates setting up tables in front of the local grocery store or library, piled high with mattresses, touting them to everyone passing by. Parents entreating co-workers to sign up for delivery of a half dozen, "I just want them out of my basement!"
I really, really wonder how well that's working out for them. But not enough to find someone and buy a mattress.
