h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Youngest nipper's school harvest festival. Usual kind of thing. Although let's not forget that this is the middle of rural Devon, so we're not talking about mums popping down the shops for a tin of beans. No, we've got veg pulled out of the field that morning, milk direct from the cows udder, jars of homemade jam containing fruit straight off the hedgerows that weekend.

So, anyway, head-mistress stands up in front of this incredible display of harvest offering and says:

"We were going to send all of this produce down to the old people's home as we always do. However. This year we're not allowed for health and safety reasons. So instead we're bringing everything back to school and would ask you to buy the stuff back. Then we'll send the cash onto the home."

You know where this is going... For 2006 instead of literally hundreds of pounds worth of harvest type stuff being donated, the school is sending £47 to the old people's home.

What a waste.

Paff

Huge amounts of people should be fed to the buzzards for this sort of thing, but you knew that anyway

That's such a shame! All they get round here are tins of pilchards.

Next year it'll be cancelled due to "lack of interest"