Today's totally self-absorbed COD award goes to a Thousand Oaks resident quoted in this article from the Los Angeles Times.
This one's SO classic that it just has to be copied for posterity in case the Times decides to take it down. And I quote ass copied from the Times (Typo? YOU make the call...):
"Authorities never urged residents to evacuate, but fire-wary homeowners took precautions as flames approached their neighborhoods, which include many homes worth $2 million or more.
Among the concerned residents were Gary and Wendy Asarch of Tamarack Street. They hosed down their backyard and roof and loaded a van with valuables, preparing to leave.
The fire came within about 100 yards of their property, but firefighters helped turn it back, and the Asarches stayed.
Once the danger had cleared, however, Wendy Asarch, a nurse-practitioner, looked at her flooded backyard and fretted: "Of all weeks for this to happen. I've got 130 people coming this weekend for my son's bar mitzvah!"
Congratulations on your COD award...you had your stuff (probably packed in your Escalade Blingmobile) ready to flee for your lives while several hundred firefighters risked life and limb to safeguard your precious property and a wall of 30 foot high flames burned to within a football field length of your home; meanwhile, two helicopters were flying dozens of targeted water-dropping missions to save your and your neighbors homes, and the first comment attributed to you is dismay at some water in your backyard that might impose on your precious party next weekend. (!)
{Medic, this woman needs some PERSPECTIVE, STAT!} (Anyone know if they make perspective suppositories???) (I wouldn't worry yourself too much, the winds that drove the flames up the hill towards your house should be back in the morning to dry out your damp patio furniture....)
Just imagine how bummed out your guests would have been had your house burned to the ground....
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