[Magdalen] Oops! Pleas, take two!
James Oppenheimer-Crawford
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 19:37:02 UTC 2016
My mistake. It should have read
"...he don' do nuttin he don' hafta."
James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**” -- *Leonard Nimoy
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:35 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> In one instance you were dealing with a minimum wage clerk whose job is to
> tally the gift and move on. Your note, if it was even read, received no
> attention because that's not his job, and for three dollars an hour, he
> don't do nuttin he don't have to.
>
> In the other instance, your donation may have triggered an automatic
> response calculated by their bean counters to get the maximum return. I
> just keep tossing them into the recycling bin next to my chair. Along with
> the others. It is not going to stop until we die, so we may as well make
> some peace with it.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**” -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:15 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I sent a note to Episcopal Relief & Development mid-December,
>> telling them it would be my last check.
>>
>> I'd received NINE pleas by US mail since November 1st,
>> more than one a week.
>> Didn't even count the emails.
>>
>> I don't want to fund their post office account!
>> -M
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > In my other email account this morning 35 out of 50-some messages were
>> > end-of-year pleas for money!
>> >
>>
>
>
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