operation smile.

from my 'ugliest girl on facebook' blog, you should have learned that i lived with 5 well 6 girls back at school.

one night, all of us were chillin... watchin tv.. probably watchin makin the band 3 cuz we were obsessed with that show. a commercial break comes on & we're all too lazy to change it.. chitchatting when suddenly the mood changed. a commercial for operation smile came on & we were all glued to the tv.. it was like 7 minutes long... 7 minutes of somber music, heartbreaking images, & mind fucking questions... i swear i think some of us started crying. if you aren't aware of this organization.. here's one of their short commercials that will definitely make you feel what we felt that night... happy birthday.

"holy shit that was the saddest thing i've ever seen" "OMG we so need to donate to this organization." "we're friggin poor what can we do?!?" "IDK" "we need to do something" "let's like save our change & donate at the end of the semester!" "yeahhh! we could go around & get donations too" "u think people will believe us??" "they fuckin better" "we can use this empty water thingy"

so we write OPERATION SMILE with a huge smiley face on the container & fill it up with whatever change we had. we then proceed to go down our halls & start knockin door to door.

"oh so you guys are part of this on campus?" we lie "yeah yeah" "kool here's a $1"

people were actually giving us money! we were ecstatic.

so weeks of this goes by.. savin pennies... gettin out there & collecting.. & business was good. we were so proud of ourselves.

sidenote: who's in/been to college? brokest & hungriest days of your life huh? well they were for us.. so we were proud & surprised we had raised as much as we did.

back to the story.. well there we all are again... watchin tv.. jokin around.. "i'm so hungry let's go to the cafeteria!!" "nah mann its closeed!" "ughhh"

then another breed of commercial comes on.... you know.. these kind.. -> meatnormous.

all of us are salivating. "dude we gotta go to fuckin BK lounge!" "yesss it looks so good ughh my tummy needs it" "were freakin broke!!"

. . . . . . . . "i wonder how much money we've raised for operation smile so far...it looks like a lot.. let's just count it & see."

so we're there countin quarters, dimes, nickels, & pennies to "pass the time".

we ended up havin about 45 bucks!

"ok what if we just used SOME of the money.. if we made this much we can def earn it back.." "yeah definitely" "lets fuckin go before it closes!"

we pile in the car & speed to BK... but no we don't order off the dollar menu.. we all needed to try the meatnormous or anythin else of such caliber.

"that'll be 37.56. next window please."

we pull up laughin hysterically becuz we're handing this lady an UNNECESSARY quantity of change. we're sittin there countin out nickels.. we musta been there for like 15-20 minutes passin handfuls to her...

luckily nobody else was asshole enough to NEED burger king to survive that night.

we gobbled our food.. then the guilt set it... but it was too funny to not laugh at. so we got over it.

i felt horrible about it sometimes looking back, but one day i was drinking an arizona green tea wit ginseng & honey [which is one of my faves] & i realize on the side in fineee print it says: 'arizona beverages donates 5% of net sales to operation smile.'

you know how much arizona ice tea i drink? a fuckin lot! so i think i've definitely gave at least MY share of it back through their donations. therefore, i sleep just a bit better at night. :)

don't judge me.