I work with a lot of nice folks. Very nice folks. The majority of them attend church regularly. Everyone is always very polite. Most of them would do just about anything for you.
So, of course, we are sponsoring a family for Christmas. I guess it’s the Christian thing to do. I’m not sure what the un-Christian thing to do is. Maybe to burn down their house and fornicate with their livestock. In any event, we’re doing the first one, the Christian one.
And I have no problem with that. However, this is taken from the body of the email that went around:
For those of you who were involved last year, this is the same family that we had last year, the older children are now being sponsored through a different program with their middle school and high school. So, we have the 5 youngest children. Our kids range from age 2 through age 7.
Um…the 5 youngest children? Just how many children do these breeders have?
I finally managed to gracefully work in that question when talking to our HR manager. It turns out the family has 9 children altogether. They each had some from a previous marriage, like the Brady Bunch. Unlike the Brady Bunch, however, they decided to squeeze out some more spawn once they got married.
I’m all for helping people out at Christmas, but maybe we could help out some people that have a little more self-control? Isn’t it pretty damn irresponsible to have more kids than you can take care of yourself?
Yeah, yeah, I know. Slap a scrooge hat on me.