So, I was in my office at school, working on a paper and my office-mate strolls in carrying a lemon meringue pie. Jealous!...but the story has a moral.
For those unaware, this past week was Pi-throw. The engineering students run around campus and the city pi-ing people in the face for charity. You buy a pie, have them take it to someone and they can either take it in the face for free, make it a problem for someone else for $10 or buy it out for $20. (I always wondered what people did when they bought it out...can't say I'd be eating a pie that had been sitting in a car all day.....)
Either way, one of her students had a pi sent to her. She really didn't want to take it in the face and was broke, so she offered to buy the pi from her and send it on. Win/Win/Win. Student doesn't have smelly lemon pie filling in her hair all day, SESS gets charity monies, Office-mate looks like a hero. Well, word got out about the student weaseling her way out of the first pi, so she ended up getting pi-ed later that class. Poor her.
But here's the fun part. Today, that same student brought her an actual pie, all wrapped up real pretty-like, as a thank-you for helping her dodge the first one. Win!
Moral of the story, carry $10 with you on pi-throw week and divert one of your students' pies. Just make sure it's a student that you figure will bring you an actual edible pie the next day.
I put myself on the no-pi list and gave the charity $50. I don't want my classes interrupted for one, and for two, I really don't want smelly pie filling in my face/hair/eyelashes for the day. Ewww. I'm one of those targets that I can see having a lot of pis sent to. I was being proactive....or so I thought.
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