So my parents are moving to cyprus

Apr 7, 2004

Yeah cyprus. My dad’s going to work for this company called World Vision. And they look pretty good and all. Look at this bit I ripped from their website:

A child from India drinks water from a tap provided by World Vision

You going to attempt to argue with that? No. Because you can’t. But in this email, my Father says that they have done a lot of work around the world contributing to the Trauma Jar. Now the Trauma Jar in my family is basically like the idea of a Swearing Jar. Every time you swear you throw a buck in the Swearing Jar. The Trauma Jar is that every time you tell a traumatic story, like perhaps tell someone the storyline to ‘Of Mice and Men’, they can demand that you donate money to their trauma jar. It’s not real money, but the ideas the same.

Well my dad said that World Vision had been contributing to the Trauma Jar all over the world. I’m sure he meant the inverse of that, or maybe he meant that they’d been doing all sorts of moving things that involved long tear-jerky stories. ‘Course my feeling is that they should probably throw in another buck for my sisters and I. Do I have to answer the phone if they call from Cyprus? I mean, how rude is that?

Comments

Tara

2004-04-07T18:09:09.000Z

I find it far more amusing to think that the company is going around traumatizing people and having to give them a dollar each time. I just see this image of an exec chatting someone up in the elevator… Everything looks fine as the door closes and the elevator starts to move. A brief cut and the door is opening again. The fellow passenger is ashen, and their eyes have glossed over. The smiling exec puts a folded dollar bill in their breast pocket as he steps past them to exit the elevator. The doors close with the other still inside, and still just staring straight ahead.

Oh yeah, that’s good stuff.

The “Evil” Daughter-in-law

2004-04-07T19:20:04.000Z

So I think this is a bad idea for Tim’s parents to move half-way around the world where they don’t know anybody, but I have to admit I also cannot resist Indian children drinking tap water. And I saw a Lonely Planet on Cyprus and it is incredibly beautiful, so hopefully I can snag a trip out of this. Although, I would have preferred San Demis because then we could stay with the parentals and go out drinking with the Salinases (is that a word?). And we could visit the hometown of Bill and Ted. But Cyprus is very cool. Maybe a trip there would make up for the aborted Papua New Guinea trip. And I think that Tara should be put on advertising staff stat. That idea rocks!

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2004-04-07T21:14:18.000Z

I drive by San Dimas High School every day on my to shitjob.

But only one more day of this. Then I am free.

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bs

2004-04-07T21:15:12.000Z

I got the ‘title’ and ‘posted by’ fields mixed up.

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LEaster

2004-04-07T22:43:27.000Z

After your dad went to so much trouble to get that kid to the fountain, how does he repay “The Vision”? By wasting all that water! He’s only getting a drop or two there and I bet they don’t even recycle. Truly, automatic traumatic.

e-bo the letter

2004-04-08T21:28:20.000Z

I’m still trying to figure out what small Indian children are doing in Cyprus. Or is it just that one kid? Poor kid. That’s what happens when you play hide ‘n’ seek in shipping freights.

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