[Magdalen] Oops! Pleas, take two!

[ME Michaud]

It took three seconds to scrawl that note,
and
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what I have written,
I have written.


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!
> > >
> >
>