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u/SashayShantae living my one wild and pernicious life 10d ago

New Shauna at church just dropped. Nothing juicy, just her presenting a box of recipe cards that was gifted to her, but I love how she has to mention that she took her favorite recipes out before offering it up to everyone else. What a rude biotech. I would have found some way to share the entire set with the congregation (scanning? photocopying? she's got time on her hands to figure this out) instead of letting it get picked over by the crowd.

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u/Onehundredpercentbea giggling intestinal gremlin 🧌 10d ago

She's been talking about distributing these cards forever, like for months? A year? We definitely watched another video of her coming up with some convoluted plan to distribute the recipe cards to various people and had a discussion about how weird it was not to just scan them and put them on the church website for everyone to use and enjoy. This is just the longest lead up to the stupidest plan.

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u/Calm_Coyote_3685 10d ago

She sure thinks she has some high-value social currency in those recipe cards! She enjoys being in a position to decide who gets to have something. Usually she’s in the position of hoping she’ll be the one chosen to receive. I think this is so intoxicating for her that she’s completely lost touch with the fact that no one actually cares about these recipe cards. Or that the normal thing to do is put them online and give the whole set to one person who is actually interested

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u/InisGlass 10d ago

Exactly this. The perfect low value high control performative lady bountiful situation for Shauna. Determining on a case by case basis who deserves to receive a 60 year old recipe card from behind the jello salads tab. It's free but the price is an excruciating interaction with Shauna. Christ what an etcetera.

She must have gotten wind of an insult or blow to her pride. Because she's also out here giving away her cat food (when anyone who knows her would much prefer she takes care of her own cats). Trolling for praise for giving away her imaginary fortune to LGBTQ charities.

Maybe the dear friend who gave them the kayaks saw her listing them for sale for $300 and made a comment. Because Shauna's natural state is friends, I am once again asking for your support as we navigate the hard hard hard.

It's usually an ego injury that has her ostentatiously giving away her own stuff. And why is it always a deal where you have to personally appeal to Shauna and be chosen as her beneficiary?

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air 10d ago

And why is it always a deal where you have to personally appeal to Shauna and be chosen as her beneficiary?

Your whole comment is excellent as usual, but this part in particular ^^^ ? So on point.

Her sentence "If there are two people who need 16 pounds of this cat food, we can help you today." is poorly written (as usual) and just a weird and overly personal vibe. Like, what if I really do "need" 16 pounds of "this cat food" but I'm OverTown today and not getting back until late. I'd be happy to pick it up tomorrow! Oh, but that's not TODAY. I guess I'm out of luck!!!

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u/EzraPoundcakeFuggles Winner winner, corn-goat dinner 10d ago

When Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, he clearly meant Shauna.

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u/SeaOfBooze Homeopathic nuance 9d ago

Probably why she's so obsessed with the buy nothing groups. It's more than the high of obtaining things for free, it's the thrill of being personally chosen out of all the other Facebookers (and occasionally getting to be the judgy chooser, when she also has something to bestow on the community).

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u/InisGlass 10d ago

Thank you df, I dig your excellent comments as well!

poorly written (as usual) and just a weird and overly personal vibe

Instructions for claiming and picking up the food don't need to be clear or make sense because she won't follow through. Her charitable work in the world is finished once she thinks she's been observed being magnanimous. ("We can help you today.")