Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Dog and Sailors Keep off the Grass

That title is from a sign that was often seen (in days gone by, I don't know about today) on lawns in the Norfolk, Virginia area. It made plain who the undesirables were.

By now you may have heard about the essay contest being sponsored by the Subway sandwich shops. A link to the official contest page can be found here. Part of the contest rules read as follows:
Contest is open only to legal US residents, over the age of 18 with children in either elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No homeschools will be accepted. (italics mine).
What this says is that there are two groups which need not apply: illegal aliens and homeschool students. We can all draw our own conclusions as to why these two groups are equated as equal and why they are not allowed to be a part of this contest. I have seen no official explanation from Subway. The fact is plain, however. These two groups are to be treated equally - each discriminated against.

How does your sandwich taste now?




The mailing address for Subway is:


Frederick A. DeLuca, President
Subway Restaurant Headquarters
325 Bic Drive
Milford, CT 06461-3059



Email (probably less effective): comments@subway.com

2 comments:

~jenna said...

there has been an apology issued, BUT there has been no change in the rules for this contest, hmmm

Curt said...

You are correct. They issued a rather lame apology which only promises to rectify the situation "in the future."
Meanwhile the poor illegals ("undocumented workers")are left out in the cold. I guess they'll be OK. They have more benefits than you do.