What do I want with 90 Meat Sticks!?!

My son is in Kindergarten.

I recently learned that they have a wrestling league for the youth in our area.

There aren't a lot of sports and activities for 5 year old children so we thought it might be a good idea to get my son active and doing something that might be fun for him too.

So, we went to the wrestling sign up meeting at one of the school's libraries.  

What a culture shock!

We walked in (My husband, my son, and myself) and were greeted and handed paperwork.

There were several parents there; one of them was wearing a WWF Wrestling T-Shirt.  

We sat down to fill out the paperwork and a high school girl comes over and hands us 3 boxes of meat sticks (similar to Slim Jims) for a fundraiser.  I am a strict vegetarian, therefore an instant sense of panic overcame me and I said, "um, I don't think I can sell those, I am a strict vegetarian", to which the girl replied in a dismissive tone, "oh, just take them to work".  I looked at my husband, then I looked at the meat sticks, then I looked at my son sitting there looking a little clueless about the whole situation and I said, "Are you sure you want to do this?".  He said passively, "Yeah, sure".  The next table over, there was a two year old girl crying and a father saying in a overly macho voice, "what are you crying for, do you see anyone else here crying?".  As I was reading my son the rules on the sign up sheet about the 4 day a week training schedule and what is expected, I could tell he wasn't paying attention.  I looked at the meat sticks again, and then looked back at my husband, who was looking annoyed. We heard the meat stick girl giving someone their meat stick fundraiser as she was saying, "they are non-returnable".  My husband and I looked at each other again and he said, "do we want to be stuck with these meat sticks, especially changes his mind in a couple weeks and doesn't want to do this anymore?". "No", I replied immediately, "I am not paying $90 for Meat Sticks!".  I turned to my son and said, "you know what, why don't we do this when you are older and understand it better".  He looked a little upset, but not devastated, after all, earlier he didn't want to come to the meeting because he wanted to play instead, how easy is it going to be to get him to all the practices?  "I think you can make a more informed decision in a year or two", I said, "besides, I am not sure how well you will fit in here".  

I had my husband return the meat sticks and tell them we changed our minds.

I was thinking "you know your a redneck when..."  you have Meat Sticks as your sport fundraiser.