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*sigh*
When Jackdaw and I got our fertility awareness training, we didn't have to pay anything beyond materials fee - the charts and the thermometer. I recently found out what that would cost if we had had to pay for it, and I'm thrilled at the deal we got. So, since I got my scholarship this year, we decided to make a donation to the centre that does the training. The volunteer was coming by to drop off some more materials for us, so I checked with her what the "to" field of the cheque should be, and wrote one out for her.
The amount of effort she put into talking us out of this is surprising. It's a donation funded centre. We got (and are continuing to get) really good services from it. No, the fact that we can't get tax receipts doesn't matter, since we don't have taxable income. She sent an e-mail thanking us, and apparently it's the first "big" ($100) donation they've received in two years. (Or maybe she means that it's the first one from a couple who took the course). Still, I didn't think it was that big a deal. I think she's forgetting that I used to be on the pill - we're going to save the $140 that we paid in a fairly short amount of time, even with my insurance.
I think that the reason I'm ranting is that it's a somewhat awkward situation socially (dealing with money, especially when we're students), and I don't do well in those. I do even more poorly when the other person starts to make it awkward. I'm just glad that Jackdaw had come home from work at this point, so I could just tune the volunteer out as I wrote the cheque and he could reassure her that it was ok. I couldn't have done as good a job - I'd have been worried about what was the socially appropriate amount of info to give.
When Jackdaw and I got our fertility awareness training, we didn't have to pay anything beyond materials fee - the charts and the thermometer. I recently found out what that would cost if we had had to pay for it, and I'm thrilled at the deal we got. So, since I got my scholarship this year, we decided to make a donation to the centre that does the training. The volunteer was coming by to drop off some more materials for us, so I checked with her what the "to" field of the cheque should be, and wrote one out for her.
The amount of effort she put into talking us out of this is surprising. It's a donation funded centre. We got (and are continuing to get) really good services from it. No, the fact that we can't get tax receipts doesn't matter, since we don't have taxable income. She sent an e-mail thanking us, and apparently it's the first "big" ($100) donation they've received in two years. (Or maybe she means that it's the first one from a couple who took the course). Still, I didn't think it was that big a deal. I think she's forgetting that I used to be on the pill - we're going to save the $140 that we paid in a fairly short amount of time, even with my insurance.
I think that the reason I'm ranting is that it's a somewhat awkward situation socially (dealing with money, especially when we're students), and I don't do well in those. I do even more poorly when the other person starts to make it awkward. I'm just glad that Jackdaw had come home from work at this point, so I could just tune the volunteer out as I wrote the cheque and he could reassure her that it was ok. I couldn't have done as good a job - I'd have been worried about what was the socially appropriate amount of info to give.
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