I'm sorr .. Wait .. What??????????

[BroSCFischer]

I can't help it. Brain says, "This must make sense!" Even if it's Cloud Cuckoo Logic, it's still a reason.

I think I might have a similar affliction, hence why the OP gave me a headache.

SC

[Sunshine]

oy. pass the asprin?

[Teefies2]

I had a whole response typed, but I got logged out before I posted it I'll try to reconstruct it:

You guys rock! Thanks for reminding me that it's not just me, there are actually SCs who make no sense!

Here's what I took away from this encounter:

#1. Needy kids will appreciate whatever they get
#2. There ARE pencil sharpeners in the classrooms, or she could have provided one if she wasn't sure
#3. Even if the kids didn't appreciate it, I guarantee the parents or teachers would
#4. Since she's doing this "out of the goodness of her Christian heart" and trying to help the needy, there was NO reason to abandon the ENTIRE order because one thing was wrong

I spent 14 years working for churches that did these "backpack" drives and I've seen alot of SC behavior, from the kids, the parents, and the donors, but this one was the worst I've EVER seen!

[Caractacus_Potts]

That may be better than the story about the guy wandering around a grocery store looking for melted butter. Turned out he had a copy of a recipe with him and one of the ingresients was "melted butter". An employee had to explain to him that melted butter is regular butter that you take home and heat up.

[RetailWorkhorse]

The only problem was where to put the shavings?

That's what that cubby under the desk is for. Shhhhhh~!

I always try to find a logical reason for someone to go from zero to NuTbAr in .004 seconds.

*Sunglasses and Jedi Mind Trick handwavething*

There is no Logic, there is only Zull.

[laborcat]

My kids' school supply lists always ask for sharpened pencils. I asked one time why.

A) so the teachers don't waste an entire day letting the kids sharpen their pencils
B) if they are sharpened before they get there, it's easier to repsharpen and that their pencil sharpeners were crappy. I don't know what kind they were using.

Both fairly logical reasons to me. You can buy pre-sharpened pencils where I work.

Not completely off-topic: I have found that the "back to school" cheapy pencils that you can get for twenty cents or whatever... they are complete and utter junk. I have yet to be able to sharpen one of those things without the lead falling out right when it's perfectly sharpened.

Completely off-topic: I'm wondering if I can gather up the massive amounts of loose crayons, markers, and pencils that are littering my house and send them in with my kids when school starts. I really don't want to shell out more $$ than I have to this summer for school stuff.

[EricKei]

Oh, they never read the warnings...it's just a little bit of a CYA for the manufacturer, retailer, etc. At least, one would hope so...

It's more of a way to discourage people from suing in the first place. IIRC, at least in the US, disclaimers on packaging have precious little legal weight, and those on advertisements (esp. TV and radio ads) effectively have none at all. Most of the time, anyway.

[zombiequeen]

Completely off-topic: I'm wondering if I can gather up the massive amounts of loose crayons, markers, and pencils that are littering my house and send them in with my kids when school starts. I really don't want to shell out more $$ than I have to this summer for school stuff.

My school always let my mum do that Just send them in a pencil-case or something. We didn't get new backpacks every year either.

[taxguykarl]

I'd love to see her digging into the can of Crisco for the fried chicken...

There's an story (possibly and urban legend) of an immigrant couple doing just that. The plan was to go by labels (they hadn't learned English yet) to select their next meal. According to the story, Crisco was their first English word.

[dalesys]

... Crisco was their first English word.

Spelled ["*{}|Cr@%^is^%@)(()%co"]], no doubt.

[Teefies2]

UPDATE:

Today pencil sharpeners are on sale. Guess who I'm thinking we'll NOT be seeing in the store :-D

[Sunshine]

teefies....LOL bet not.

[Blade_Raver]

*breaks out knife* How sharp do you want these lady?

[Jester]

The picture on the box shows them sharpened! They HAVE to be sharpened!!!!!!!!!!!!! ELEVENTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT is FALSE ADVERTISING !!!!!!!!!! HOW are the poor kids going to use these pencils??????????????

Perhaps if they sharpened them using something like, oh, I dunno, a pencil sharpener? Which we just so happen to very conveniently sell.

This woman is a whack job, pure and simple. I knew that when you bought pencils new, they would be unsharpened by the time I was FIVE.

this dingus is going to

3. Eventually blow a gasket and have her head explode.

We can only hope.

But I'm probably barkin' up the wrong tree here.

Obviously. Since this woman is clearly out of her tree!

[BeenThereDoneThat]

It's more of a way to discourage people from suing in the first place. IIRC, at least in the US, disclaimers on packaging have precious little legal weight, and those on advertisements (esp. TV and radio ads) effectively have none at all. Most of the time, anyway.

Oh yeah, I know, and that's smart. But it's sad that the whackjobs complaining the loudest about some of this "I've been duped" stuff are the ones most likely to sue anyway, and I hate it when they win.