Football player wants to do GoFundMe end run
You can assume that this request is coming from the mother because the son is too young to set up an account.
Like most people, I have received GoFundMe requests for a broad variety of causes, ranging from offsetting a colleague's medical costs (yes) to travel expenses for a family to go pick up their new dog (um, no).
Some GoFundMe requests seem almost designed to insult a working person. Others seem viable and valid, but come from strangers.
And some requests are easily and heartily fulfilled.
It costs nothing to launch a request (GoFundMe takes an ample percentage of the donations), and because it is done at a cyber-distance (through the internet), the person asking doesn't even have to make eye contact or answer questions.
Anybody can ask for anything. Remember this, as you ignore this GoFundMe ask.
And if the mother knows that you are ignoring it -- so what?
Dear Amy: I live in a condo complex. I have a lovely neighbor with whom I've become close since I moved in four and a half ago.
I work full time and have house cleaners come clean every other week while I am at work. The cleaners arrive around 7 a.m.
My neighbor has made several comments over the past couple of months about their early arrival time and the amount of noise they make. Today, she texted me saying, "It would be sooo nice to have them a bit later, say eight?"
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