craziest school auction story?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our auctions at our kids schools have always been fun. I have also seen vasectomies and 1 hour consult with divorce attorney too. Craziest behavior I've ever seen was people stealing the bid sheets and then putting them back after the bids had closed. Another woman hovered so close to her desired item and angrily stared at anyone placing a bid. She scared off several people. But both of those incidents happened at a performing arts non-profit auction in the burbs.

It's alway funny to put some other mom's name on the vasectomy bid sheet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What I personally detest are the items where parents are solicited to contribute something that is bought at retail and then auctioned. Invariably it sells for less than the retail price. Looking at it from all angles:

* The PTA gets less money than if the donor had just written a check for the amount.
* The donor has to go to the trouble of buying something and hauling it to the auction, only for the PTA to make less than if they had just written a check.
* The buyer ends up with something they probably didn't want, and has to figure out how to get it home from the auction.

It's lose, lose, lose.

Pretty much sums up all the damn class baskets

+1 whoever came up with that idea should be shot

What kills me is they keep doing it year after year. It's like lemmings plunging off a cliff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One item up for bid at our schools silent auction was the "opportunity" to host a Stella and dot party at your home - and you can even invite 10-12 friends. The starting bid was $80

I'm the PTA board. Over my dead body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our auctions at our kids schools have always been fun. I have also seen vasectomies and 1 hour consult with divorce attorney too. Craziest behavior I've ever seen was people stealing the bid sheets and then putting them back after the bids had closed. Another woman hovered so close to her desired item and angrily stared at anyone placing a bid. She scared off several people. But both of those incidents happened at a performing arts non-profit auction in the burbs.

At ours there were dads bidding on the "sleepovers" with the teachers. Wink, wink. Classy

Indeed... tell us more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our auctions at our kids schools have always been fun. I have also seen vasectomies and 1 hour consult with divorce attorney too. Craziest behavior I've ever seen was people stealing the bid sheets and then putting them back after the bids had closed. Another woman hovered so close to her desired item and angrily stared at anyone placing a bid. She scared off several people. But both of those incidents happened at a performing arts non-profit auction in the burbs.

At ours there were dads bidding on the "sleepovers" with the teachers. Wink, wink. Classy

Indeed... tell us more.

Not much to tell. Teachers donate to host a sleepover at the school or at their house for a group of students. Dads just horsing around

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our auctions at our kids schools have always been fun. I have also seen vasectomies and 1 hour consult with divorce attorney too. Craziest behavior I've ever seen was people stealing the bid sheets and then putting them back after the bids had closed. Another woman hovered so close to her desired item and angrily stared at anyone placing a bid. She scared off several people. But both of those incidents happened at a performing arts non-profit auction in the burbs.

At ours there were dads bidding on the "sleepovers" with the teachers. Wink, wink. Classy

Who do you think should bid, the kids? Auctions are adult only parties, so moms and dads are the one bidding for items designed for the kids. are you really that thick?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our auctions at our kids schools have always been fun. I have also seen vasectomies and 1 hour consult with divorce attorney too. Craziest behavior I've ever seen was people stealing the bid sheets and then putting them back after the bids had closed. Another woman hovered so close to her desired item and angrily stared at anyone placing a bid. She scared off several people. But both of those incidents happened at a performing arts non-profit auction in the burbs.

At ours there were dads bidding on the "sleepovers" with the teachers. Wink, wink. Classy

Who do you think should bid, the kids? Auctions are adult only parties, so moms and dads are the one bidding for items designed for the kids. are you really that thick?

She was there, you weren't, and she said the dads were making a joke out of it. No need to get so hostile. Obviously nobody thought the dads were actually going to have sleepovers with the teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Too many to count but some memorable ones include a bidding war between drunk moms in the live auction for the opportunity to talk to Steve Inskeep. IIRC they bid each other up into the thousands.

Steve Inskeep!!!!!!!!!! where does he send his kids?

Murch, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too many to count but some memorable ones include a bidding war between drunk moms in the live auction for the opportunity to talk to Steve Inskeep. IIRC they bid each other up into the thousands.

Steve Inskeep!!!!!!!!!! where does he send his kids?

Murch, right?

First, I don't think that is correct. Second, please don't ask and post about where a public figure's children go to school. Give people privacy.

[Anonymous]

Our school auction is coming up. It's usually pretty fun and the volunteers work hard, so I'm grateful. That said, whoever thought that promoting "ride to school in the back of a cop car" was a good idea had a serious lapse in judgment. It seems so out of touch. Only in an affluent neighborhood could you think that this is something to promote with glee. Will the kids think it's cool? Probably. But as a parent, reading a plug for this "auction item" seemed a little fucked up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too many to count but some memorable ones include a bidding war between drunk moms in the live auction for the opportunity to talk to Steve Inskeep. IIRC they bid each other up into the thousands.

Steve Inskeep!!!!!!!!!! where does he send his kids?

Murch, right?

First, I don't think that is correct. Second, please don't ask and post about where a public figure's children go to school. Give people privacy.

Not correct and I won't tell!

[Anonymous]

Our school got an email blast every blessed day this week about the auction. Enough!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too many to count but some memorable ones include a bidding war between drunk moms in the live auction for the opportunity to talk to Steve Inskeep. IIRC they bid each other up into the thousands.

Steve Inskeep!!!!!!!!!! where does he send his kids?

Murch, right?

First, I don't think that is correct. Second, please don't ask and post about where a public figure's children go to school. Give people privacy.

OH GOD - he put HIMSELF out there when he agreed to auction off some time for a public school auction. For God's sake it's Steve Inskeep, not a real celebrity. No one here was being creepy other than you!

And if he's so, so concerned about his privacy, he wouldn't have put his daughter's information on his wikipedia and talked about them to Newsweek. Give me a break.

[Anonymous]

Steve Inskeep? Maybe for Ira Glass.

[Anonymous]

One mum yelled at another group of mums who went in as a group to bid on something. She got all red faced and monstery and freaked out the other mums. Drinking was involved and she was very passionate.