Scaring Away Junk Mail

 

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Do you ever get those letters from survey companies, asking you for information ranging from the make and model of your car to your baby’s shoe size and how much money you are willing to part with so that charities can hound you for the rest of your life, all for the gift of a homemade pen the length of your little fingernail?

The Hub received one and started to fill it in but got hacked off at the level of intimate detail they required.  He chucked the form in the shredder, took a blank piece of paper, wrote ‘Boo!’ on it, folded it in half and stuck it in the pre-paid envelope, and sent it off.

We haven’t had any mail from that company since.

 

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From Will & Guy.

Nick: I’m a man of few words.
Mike: I’m married, too.

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