Quote:You will work hard to plan an event for 10 girls, and only 5 will show up. You will order badges for girls who then quit. It's so much more than you realized when you signed up.
Volunteering for kids' stuff is hard. Far too many of their parents think you are babysitting them for a couple of hours so they can run errands. My first year of Little League at the start of a game the other manager and I were exchanging lineups and he had a scowl on his face. I asked him what was wrong and all he said was "it shows, huh?" Then he told me how the day before he had called a practice, closed his business in the Bronx early, drove home 2 hours through Long Island traffic and 5 of the 13 kids showed up. They played like it, too and we crushed them. He was obviously pissed at his team and it showed. Later that night I got a call from the league president who said that he gotten complaints about the manager from the parents on the team and what could I tell him about it. I told him the story and suggested he ask those parents if their kid had been at the practice. He laughed.
So I get where you are coming from. It's why I volunteer with dogs. They wag their tails and lick your face and when they give you shit you expect it and clean it up.
