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warrrreagl · 10-01-2004, 06:24 AM

The wife and I joined our university's alumni association as lifetime members, and each year we must give a "donation" in order to maintain our same season ticket seats during football season.

The lifetime alumni membership was paid in full about ten years ago (so that doesn't cost anything anymore), and the annual football donation is currently at $900 per year. Several years ago, we had an assistant football coach who sued the university because he thought he deserved to be the head coach and was turned down. The case was "settled," which means he was paid off with funds from the annual football donation kitty. Therefore, my wife and I have a policy of answering those phone calls begging for money from our alma mater with the same response: "Give me a written guarantee that my donation to the College of *blank* won't go to pay off some disgruntled former employee, and MAYBE we'll consider it."

To this day, we haven't gotten a single one of those guarantees.

10-01-2004, 06:24 AM	#13 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	The wife and I joined our university's alumni association as lifetime members, and each year we must give a "donation" in order to maintain our same season ticket seats during football season. The lifetime alumni membership was paid in full about ten years ago (so that doesn't cost anything anymore), and the annual football donation is currently at $900 per year. Several years ago, we had an assistant football coach who sued the university because he thought he deserved to be the head coach and was turned down. The case was "settled," which means he was paid off with funds from the annual football donation kitty. Therefore, my wife and I have a policy of answering those phone calls begging for money from our alma mater with the same response: "Give me a written guarantee that my donation to the College of blank won't go to pay off some disgruntled former employee, and MAYBE we'll consider it." To this day, we haven't gotten a single one of those guarantees. __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.