Edina Cake Eater

[bcgr]

Originally Posted by MN2CO

This reminds of the crap people "up north" say about the metro. Same stuff - some would say it's just jealously speaking.

Perhaps there is some jealousy, but I usually think it is a reaction to rudeness. To me, it's like OK you have lots of money, but jeez, be considerate and stop showing it off to everyone else, get some manners. "oldmoney's" post comes off as very snobbish as does this thing that Edinians [or Edinites, Ediners (?)] adopted "cake-eater."

Originally Posted by golfgal

When I was in high school it was pretty commonplace for senior party prizes to include a car-which were generally donated by a local car dealership. I know our high school had one given away as well as several very large cash prizes, a trip, stereo systems, etc.

Jeeeez, I went to the wrong high school. Maybe now I'm a bit jealous, but I think schools giving out cars is quite a bit over the top even if they were donated. Biggest prize at my senior party---->$50 gift card to wal-mart.

[golfgal]

Originally Posted by bcgr

Perhaps there is some jealousy, but I usually think it is a reaction to rudeness. To me, it's like OK you have lots of money, but jeez, be considerate and stop showing it off to everyone else, get some manners. "oldmoney's" post comes off as very snobbish as does this thing that Edinians [or Edinites, Ediners (?)] adopted "cake-eater."

Jeeeez, I went to the wrong high school. Maybe now I'm a bit jealous, but I think schools giving out cars is quite a bit over the top even if they were donated. Biggest prize at my senior party---->$50 gift card to wal-mart.

Technically it wasn't the school giving out the cars, it was the after graduation party committee. We were just lucky to live in an area that was pretty affluent and we got a lot of nice donations. This was also LONG before everyone and their brother did fundraisers for everything and businesses got hit up every other day for donations.