Courtney in Missouri was perusing the silent auction items at a political fundraiser she was attending when she noticed the bit sheet for a gift basket called “Pamper Yourself or Someone You Love.” Although the basket was valued at $235 (the full amount, of which, of course, was going to the fundraiser) no one seemed to have the temerity to outbid the $100 bidder. I wonder why?
When she stopped back just before the end of the auction, Courtney says, “my repeated taking of pictures of the bidding sheet seem to have led the person in question to raise their bid to $125…without any reference to possibly terminal illnesses.”
Perhaps Carol rethought her “charitable” decision to gift the basket to someone with cancer. (Chemo-induced vomiting is bad enough, but foisting Eat, Pray, Love on someone? Now that’s just cruel.)
related: Playing the Holocaust card
127 responses so far ↓
#1
much to my chagrin
Where are the rest of the quotation marks? Aaah!
Aug 15, 2010 at 3:02 pm rating: 90
#2
EARL HAMSHER
Someone else could have bid……they just needed to figure out what trumps cancer
Aug 15, 2010 at 3:17 pm rating: 90
#3
KS04
Using someone else’s C card is like using your grandmother’s handicap parking permit or that legally-blind-at-night friend to cut through the lines at airport security . . . during the day. (And also getting free admission into Kew Gardens).
Kind-of dirty. But then, it did save me £20 and I made that flight to Dublin, so . . . yeah . . .
Aug 15, 2010 at 3:24 pm rating: 90
#4
Significant
although the bidder has good intentions, its still a bit tacky in my opinion. the person is also preventing the charity from raising more money. just an all around bad move.
Aug 15, 2010 at 5:11 pm rating: 90
#5
Will
This comment is for someone who has cancer.
Aug 15, 2010 at 5:12 pm rating: 90
#6
Canthz_B
The bid increments were supposed to be $5 and Carol upped the bid $25 and tossed in a free “Make a Wish Foundation” line.
I wonder if she enjoyed the gift basket she so desperately wanted for herself?
Aug 15, 2010 at 5:37 pm rating: 90
#7
Canthz_B
Next time I go to the emergency room for a sprain, before I leave home I’m going to shave my head and once there claim to be suffering side-effects from my chemotherapy session…and by the way, my ankle hurts too!
What the hell? I’m tired of reading 4 month-old waiting room Sports Illustrated magazines.
Aug 15, 2010 at 5:57 pm rating: 90
#8
Mike Oxlong
I would have outbid them and put “For child with cancer”
Aug 15, 2010 at 7:49 pm rating: 90
#9
Courtney
We thought of outbidding her for someone who has ALS, but we figured public humiliation would be more satisfying than dropping $200 on a gift basket that none of us wanted.
Aug 15, 2010 at 7:57 pm rating: 90
#10
Guy
That whole combination really is sort of a nightmare-in-a-box anyway. The pedicure is okay, but ewwww … the rest of it is like being smothered with a Care Bear.
Aug 15, 2010 at 8:07 pm rating: 90
#11
Ken Yee
Having lost friends and family to CANCER, I’m all for playing the C card when appropriate – I just hope the cancer patient got the goodies.
Aug 15, 2010 at 8:09 pm rating: 90
#12
marci
Actually, massage is contra-indicated for people with cancer…
Aug 15, 2010 at 8:31 pm rating: 90
#13
Spaghetti
Am I the only one who sat here wondering what Carol meant by her bid of “$100. N”?
Aug 15, 2010 at 8:37 pm rating: 90
#14
Katerinawit
lulz…where do you go witha sprained ankle?
Aug 15, 2010 at 8:58 pm rating: 90
#15
Gwen
I’m a fan of the comfort booties.
Aug 15, 2010 at 9:11 pm rating: 90
#16
BB
Am I the only one annoyed that the gift basket says “Victoria Secrets”
Aug 15, 2010 at 9:56 pm rating: 90
#17
The Judy
Pops, I love you. Marry me, it’s legal in Cali now.
The Judy
Aug 16, 2010 at 12:06 am rating: 90
#18
surrahsurrah
The only C-Card I would use to get that gift basket would be “for someone who is a C*nt!
Aug 16, 2010 at 12:16 am rating: 90
#19
Canthz_B
I know that getting a pedicure would be of great benefit to me in case of cancer.
Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical industry has buried all research proving the curative powers of emory boards.
Aug 16, 2010 at 12:58 am rating: 90
#20
People Person
How about, “$105 for Holocaust survivor”?
Aug 16, 2010 at 11:15 am rating: 90
#21
claw71
“Cancer schmancer,” my grandfather once told me during one of his tirades about how tough his generations was. “When I was a kid we called it consumtion and it was always fatal. Now you pussies have your ‘keno-therapy’ and radiation. When I was your age radiation was in bombs and it was always fatal!”
I tried to explain that the radiation used in cancer treament was indeed fatal and most people who went through the treatment were taken to the brink of death.
“Brink of death?” He yelled. “What do you know about it? I was in dub-a-yuh dub-a-yuh two, while you were crapping your diapers. I lived my whole life on the brink of death, champ.”
I explained that I wasn’t crapping diapers until we were in the waning stages of Vietnam.
“Oh, and I supposed you want a cookie for that, don’t you, Nancy? I see all these Vietnam vets whining about POWs and not being respected when they came home. You know why? YOU LOST! That’s exactly what I’m talking about. When I was a soldier we won our wars and it wasn’t the kind of pansy-ass war where the enemy took POWS, they killed you dead. Those Japs didn’t care and even if they took POWs, we would have rescued them because my generation got things done. That’s because we had quality diseases like consumption weeding out the weak. We were winners because we weren’t dragging around the walking wounded every step of the way. My brother, Earl, died fromt he flu. You’ve had the flu ten times since I’ve known your sorry ass and your no-good whore of a mother has had cancer twice. It’s not because your tougher, the diseases are weaker. You make me sick, boy. So you can take your cancer pity party and shove it up your silky little asshole!”
Aug 16, 2010 at 2:42 pm rating: 90
#22
Elizabeth
I have cancer. Where’s my damn basket?
And yes, mani/pedi’s are contraindicated for people in chemo due to the potential for infection. Massages are OK depending on the type of cancer, but you want to use someone with training in oncology massage, not a random “Massage Envy” type of place.
Oh, and chemo doesn’t make me vomit, but the “Dream Angels” gift basket might.
Aug 16, 2010 at 4:34 pm rating: 90
#23
strudel
@ Canthz 7.3 comment…. That is all fine and dandy that you are framilier with ICD-9 and how it relates to claims. However, as a Health Claims Examiner, you should know, that if I go to the ER for a sprained ankle, my claim will be rejected, I will foot the bill (no pun intended) and be advised to go to a prompt/urgent care or my PC next time.
DAMN HMO’s!
MEDICAL OFFICE ADMINISTRATORS RULE!
BTW – Stop “coding” in NOC’s and NEC’s. CMS is going to fine your establishments ass for not using ultimate specificity. Your obviously not a CPC so get over yourself. Oooo… I know code’s so I am bad-ass…..
Aug 17, 2010 at 11:20 pm rating: 90
#24
Pancake
Dear ” Canthz_B”, thanks for the novelesque post that nobody is going to read.
Aug 18, 2010 at 11:51 am rating: 90
#25
Generation Bexx
anglophile-
I’m not upset, or even moved by your comments, but it is possible that they were unnecessarily harsh. I’m ‘worried’ about that.
The expanse of one’s vocabulary, while possibly suggesting an equally expansive range of thought – is also not necessary. And while I have access to an impressive vernacular, and not just a thesaurus like you might sumise…. it neither prevents nor ensures my understanding. That little thing happens all by itself… without big words like “marmalade”.
My intention in that larger comment was to talk about how it’s so common to see now, people such as the poster of this panote, exploiting something/someone so effortlessly and without pause… for their own ease in transaction, upper hand in a situation… We’re so comfortable with this form of entitlement – that we are entitled to exploit, or put to use (more euphemistic approach) these things that society prioritizes… like the girl who fakes her cancer for her own gains of pity, money, fame… etc.
i was fusing that above thought (albeit in a smaller sentence) with the concept that the transition into this exploiting nature (to generalize) has become more apparent through the actions and dialogue of the last few generations.
I hope that THIS comment will be acknowledged for the benevolence and relevance that it was intended and for christ’s sake – i really did like the “novelesque health care BS” that was written above. Good stuff, congratulations, really. Fuck.
Aug 23, 2010 at 7:02 pm rating: 90
#26 Those special "charity pens"? They were nicked from the office supply closet. | PassiveAggressiveNotes.com
[...] Nat’s opinion, however, her guilt-heavy fundraising techniques might benefit from a little fine-tuning…especially given that all seven of those special [...]
Aug 31, 2010 at 6:19 pm rating: 90
Comments are Closed