Category: Teen Topics
Sorry for the sappy title but ...
Here's the deal:
I'm giving at least 480,000,000 points to anyone who:
a. is a minor / living at home with parent or guardian,
b. helps out this three-day weekend *without being asked* and *without it being a way to kiss up / make amends or whatever*.
and of course c. PM me with what you did / how you did it.
Judgment is mine to make, but it's not a creative writing thing or anything, just say what you did, how you did and how it helped out if it's not immediately obvious.
I thought of this cause sometimes we see lots of people saying how bored they are on here: well here's somethin' to do that'll be useful.
And another Zoner has seriously contributed to the pot for this. Any adult who wants to up the ante by adding to the pot can do so also.
So kiddies let's see what you come up with, and here's to hoping you all play fair as obviously I couldn't (and wouldn't) check. But, bear in mind, I have a teenager at home so I think I'm a pretty decent judge of what's gonna be real or not.
Good luck to those who wanta play.
Ah c'mon now all ye young lmfao-textin' fools, do something decent for your folks now without being asked, tell us all about it and you'll get some points. Have we no takers?
I should say if you're at a boarding school that would obviously count, should have considered the nature of the audience: do something for the guardians there then, and write about it.
I have so few points to begin with
although I am willing to place 200,000 points into this endeavor.
Connie {Grace}
Interesting we get adult and no kiddie responses. I say sit on the points till weekend is over and let's see if we even get takers. C'mon kids you can do it now! It won't kill ya we promise!
I'll add 9000000 points to the pot. They shall now be transferred to your account.
Hahaha I'm sorry, Leo... but NO takers? WOW!
Well, crap. I forgot about the 20$ tax. I'll make up for it.
You guys are forgetting that most of the younger zoners don't frequent the boards.
I've put this in Quicknotes before but I will again. This looks like it's gonna have to stretch beyong the weekend as we have Grace, SugarBaby and I who have all contributed. The pot has grown exponentially now, let's see what these sports can do!
Sorry. I meant 20% tax, and there you go, I just sent the last 16 million of my points. of course, count the 20% tax will give you, I think 128000000 points. But now you have over 500 million points to give away.
Miss Em, I've seen plenty of younger zoners on the boards.
What I hope we get is someone to give 'em away to, now.
That would be nice. I'll keep sending if you want. Maybe someone would be more likely to act if the pot was, say, a billion points.
hahaha. good luck guys, but I see this going nowhere. sorry to be a spoiler in this, but...
I'd tend to agree here with Fighter, to the point that I feel a bit remorseful of getting other people involved in putting points in the pot when we have no takers. I'll just sit on 'em till we get some young teenager to come along and do it / earn the points. Perfect opportunity for one of 'em to prove us all wrong and step it up.
Yeah. I agree with that.
Leo,
Maybe you can assist?
On that Board of Mine,
WHERE MUSIC LIVES
Regarding the points, I am having difficulty
awarding some and unable to get that feature to work
Are points only to be given in say, a block of all to one??
or
can I break them up and give them as I have posted?
btw~ You earned some on that Board!! :)
...and what?!?! Can us Oldsters not earn that pot of points!!!
I am doing Autumnal housecleaning
That should count for something!!
I had thought about breaking it all up, but we have had no responses. I'm inclined to give 'em to you if you want 'em as nobody, not even one teenager, has responded via quicknotes or on the boards.
I do like to tease...:)
...except if you wanna give the points to me,
well. o.k.
only thing is I would want to be able to break them up
and use them like how I Posted and don't know now if it can
be done that way. :(
Best for you to keep your points at this time
till all this gets understood. *Smiles
Thanks Anyhow!
Okay, Robo send all the points to me, by then I should have a trillion. All I did was sit around the house and my house is squeaky clean so there was nothing to do. Now, that works?
To Grace what you do with the points once I send them is your affair. I never give with strings attached.
To the last post, the idea was for you to benefit your folks or guardian somehow without having to be asked: to of your own initiative take an opportunity to help them out.
I am finding this whole thing rather depressing now, and I'm generally one to be optimistic about teenagers: I'm not exactly one of those parents who grumbles about their teens. In fact, those are years of great opportunity, but as I said I'm gravely disappointed.
Well, FINALLY I got the Point Transfer to work.
I was using a comma where was NOT to.
Like instad of 300000 I was putting in place 300,000
Leo,
It's up to you if you choose to send the points over to me
and again they would be used more than likely as awards
in musical &/or other type games around here.
Maybe a game for the Holidays?
Connie {Grace}
Points have been sent. What you got was 400444800 points because of the tax.
"What's done is done"
...and now in some respects a New Beginning with these points
to have them rolled over to others in various endeavors that
present themselves here whether in games or perhaps some cause of worth
presenting itself with the points lending support as it were.
And the Autumnal House cleaning continues :)
Who says a mom's/homemakers work goes un-noticed
Wow! Thanks Leo...
Think receiving these points even caused me to loose a few years,
feeling like a teenager again *Smiles
A homemaker's work is never unnoticed: my wife made that sacrifice when our daughter was growing up, and is now getting into a new career.
Like I've mentioned in various teen topics and daily living topics, I have absolutely no problem doing anybody around the house any favors with cleaning and chores, as long as I know my help is appreciated. That's all I ask.
Wish I had known about this earlier, I would have thrown a nice chunk of change in to the points pile. a billion or so. Ah well. Hmm. I'm wondering if maybe we could design other contests this way. I'll have to think about it.
I think it's a good idea if it becomes more publicized. People might actually know about it. Lol.
I have an idea. How about a random acts of kindness sort of deal. If someone does something nice for someone they don't know, they could receive a billion points. Of course, there would have to be a way for people not to know about this, otherwise people would just do things to get points. Or say....maybe, if someone buys a premium membership for a random person, they could get a large amount of points. Something that requires an act in the goodness of people.
And, Leo, I like your idea very much, although I don't think it should necessarily be restricted to teens. Adults may be expected to help more than teens, but not everybody does all the time. I'm sure we're all guilty of not helping when we could have, at least once in our adult lives.
true and maybe I'm biased but we as adults are the working stiffs, and isn't it the teens typically saying how bored they are? But yeah there are better ways to do it for sure, I just sorta thought of it with the 3-day weekend.
I know teens who go to school every day, make straight A's, help out and volunteer around the school, play in a band, play on a sports team or two, and somehow maintain a part time job too to help out with bills around the house. I also know adults who sit on their lazy asses all day and do nothing. Don't get me wrong. I think it's good to encourage teens to get out there and do things they're not expected to do.