My sister wants me to help enhance her breasts. No kidding.
She's been after me to write an essay on her behalf so she can enter a radio contest to win a free boob job. The station is giving away a dozen procedures in honor of the twelve days of Christmas.
Until recently, I've resisted and explained she looks fine the way she is and doesn't need cosmetic surgery. (I've seen her topless before, most recently on my boat while she sunbathed with my wife, and both women are stunning and perfectly natural.) She countered with, at her age (early forties), all she wants is "a little lift." I said, "What if something happens to you? I'd feel responsible if you won based on my essay. It's an operation, remember? They'll cut you open and you could die or get a horrible infection or whatever."
Another thing that bothers me is the ethical angle off passing on my words to someone else as if they were written by her. Is it fair to the other contest entrants who haven't had their essays ghostwritten? Would it constitute a form of fraud?
Three of the twelve winners have already been announced. Their writing is awful. I'm amazed they would even be considered as runner ups, let alone winners. The point is, if I write the essay, even with the left and right side of my brain tied behind my knobby cranium, she'll win, of that I'm certain.
She really has me in a spot. I love her and want to help and see her happy, but there is a side of me that is repelled by the notion, and I would tell anyone else who approached me with such a scheme to screw off in no uncertain terms.
As far as she knows, I'm still undecided, though I wanted to bring it up here to gain feedback from others who could offer advice on how I should proceed.
She's been after me to write an essay on her behalf so she can enter a radio contest to win a free boob job. The station is giving away a dozen procedures in honor of the twelve days of Christmas.
Until recently, I've resisted and explained she looks fine the way she is and doesn't need cosmetic surgery. (I've seen her topless before, most recently on my boat while she sunbathed with my wife, and both women are stunning and perfectly natural.) She countered with, at her age (early forties), all she wants is "a little lift." I said, "What if something happens to you? I'd feel responsible if you won based on my essay. It's an operation, remember? They'll cut you open and you could die or get a horrible infection or whatever."
Another thing that bothers me is the ethical angle off passing on my words to someone else as if they were written by her. Is it fair to the other contest entrants who haven't had their essays ghostwritten? Would it constitute a form of fraud?
Three of the twelve winners have already been announced. Their writing is awful. I'm amazed they would even be considered as runner ups, let alone winners. The point is, if I write the essay, even with the left and right side of my brain tied behind my knobby cranium, she'll win, of that I'm certain.
She really has me in a spot. I love her and want to help and see her happy, but there is a side of me that is repelled by the notion, and I would tell anyone else who approached me with such a scheme to screw off in no uncertain terms.
As far as she knows, I'm still undecided, though I wanted to bring it up here to gain feedback from others who could offer advice on how I should proceed.
