One of the neighbours asked for sponsorship today. They are doing a walk in aid of cancer research. Well, that’s very good of them. I asked which cancer research they were supporting.
CRUK.
Oh dear. I cannot give money to people who hate me.
“What do you mean?”
Well, I smoke, and CRUK want everyone to despise me and they want me to die.
“No, no, they want to cure cancer.”
They are not interested in curing anything. They want to control my life. Sorry, no sponsorship here.
The thing is, that neighbour smokes too. I hope she’s giving this some thought.
Also, I had a letter through the post. one of those that is usually addressed to ‘the householder’ and asking for money. Begging, I think it’s called.
This one had, on the front of the envelope, ‘It makes no difference to me who you are’. That was it. Plain white envelope with that on the front, and inside was a begging letter from cancer research. It’s in the recycling bin so it won’t be wasted.
It’s an interesting idea for one of my kind of stories though. A letter arriving with those words on the front could have absolutely anything inside, and could lead to all sorts of things.
Should I incorporate it into the Smokyween Horror short story? Do you know, I do believe that would be entirely appropriate.
I have a couple of weeks to write it, so naturally I haven’t started yet. If I am to avoid verbosity then I have to have a short deadline. If I put that out for distribution it will take a week or so to spread so let’s say, to get it out in time for Halloween, it has to be done and sent by the 14th.
I’ll write it on the 13th.
“I’ll write it on the 13th.”
An appropriate date I must say…
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MJM
It does seem appropriate, doesn’t it? It’s not a Friday, unfortunately.
Seems CRUK have a bit spare cash to throw about. Earlier this year we had a doorstepper wanting to tell us about all the wonderful things they have “achieved” during the last 10 years, err like the smoking ban etc ad infinitum.
My piss was boiled so much, he was barked at to leave the premises.
Obviously someone is paying for these “canvasser” types, as he had a CRUK logo’ed jerkin on, and a wee ID badge saying he was an official anti-smoker chapping a household of two still-smokers.
“Plain white envelope with that on the front, and inside was a begging letter from cancer research. It’s in the recycling bin so it won’t be wasted.”
What I do, if anyone like that includes a postage prepaid return envelope to send the donation back to them – then I take everything they mailed to me, torn into pieces and stuffed right back into the postage paid return envelope and mail it right back to them. I let them pay the postage both ways, even if there is no donation enclosed. And sometimes I even hand scrawl in blood red ink an unkind message or two telling them what they can do with their donation request and their hate-mongering organization. Sometimes I almost feel like taping their prepaid postage return envelope to a brick and dropping that into the mailbox for them to pay the postage on too. Done en masse, it can be an effective protest strategy too which sends a signal and also squanders their already wasteful fake-charity monies.
Absolutely. I used to do that too.
And if the return address is a freepost one, that’s even better… you can then send any old gunk to them on a regular basis by simply writing the freepost address on an envelope & filling it full of stuff.
One idiot sent me a letter hawking his foolproof pools-winning system once, which contained a return envelope with a freepost address. I sent him stuff for months, figuring if he was so good at winning the pools, he could well afford the postage charges.
A brick? Oh do keep up at the back, an old washing machine has been used before with great effect, especially those use couriers….