Angela
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Christmas cards should be if not banished, heavily fined!
I thought the internet would get rid of these for me, but no such luck.
For the last couple of years I've waited and only sent one to those who send them to me. How lame can you get, right?
Now, I'm going to start not even doing that.
Just this morning I got my most hated kind of Christmas card: the "letter" with charming, planned out photos of parents and children and sometimes even grandchildren in coordinated outfits (jeans or khakis and white shirt from a summer setting-which means they were thinking about it in July-or jeans, Christmas sweater or red sweater with scarf), fake complaining about how busy they've been given hubby's new book, wife's new internet venture, Jr.'s travails at Yale, and Sis' hilarious escapades at Stanford. It's enough to make you puke. Meanwhile, I haven't laid eyes on the woman for twenty-five years, and I thought she was a fake, phony, and idiot back then. I tore it up and threw it in the trash.
Next was a card (with picture) of the husband of one of my good friends who died of a brain tumor five years ago. The photo featured him and his twenty-five year old Asian bride yucking it up in Manhatten. No sign of his two kids. Look, I know it's been five years. He's entitled to find some companionship, but he's a freaking, walking cliche. If you're going to make an ass of yourself, do you have so little sensitivity that you send the picture to your first wife's close friends. Just send a dignified Christmas card with all your names! I should have known he'd do this: he always had wandering eyes and hands.
I ripped that one up too. No card for him. I did call a couple of our old gang to ask if they got it. They indeed did, and all of them threw it out! :grin: Not that he cares, I'm sure. I hope she takes all this money and then leaves him for a younger man. What a complete jerk!
I thought the internet would get rid of these for me, but no such luck.
For the last couple of years I've waited and only sent one to those who send them to me. How lame can you get, right?
Now, I'm going to start not even doing that.
Just this morning I got my most hated kind of Christmas card: the "letter" with charming, planned out photos of parents and children and sometimes even grandchildren in coordinated outfits (jeans or khakis and white shirt from a summer setting-which means they were thinking about it in July-or jeans, Christmas sweater or red sweater with scarf), fake complaining about how busy they've been given hubby's new book, wife's new internet venture, Jr.'s travails at Yale, and Sis' hilarious escapades at Stanford. It's enough to make you puke. Meanwhile, I haven't laid eyes on the woman for twenty-five years, and I thought she was a fake, phony, and idiot back then. I tore it up and threw it in the trash.
Next was a card (with picture) of the husband of one of my good friends who died of a brain tumor five years ago. The photo featured him and his twenty-five year old Asian bride yucking it up in Manhatten. No sign of his two kids. Look, I know it's been five years. He's entitled to find some companionship, but he's a freaking, walking cliche. If you're going to make an ass of yourself, do you have so little sensitivity that you send the picture to your first wife's close friends. Just send a dignified Christmas card with all your names! I should have known he'd do this: he always had wandering eyes and hands.
I ripped that one up too. No card for him. I did call a couple of our old gang to ask if they got it. They indeed did, and all of them threw it out! :grin: Not that he cares, I'm sure. I hope she takes all this money and then leaves him for a younger man. What a complete jerk!