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June 02, 2010
Filed Under (Brainless idiots, Con-Men) by Keith on 02-06-2010
In fact it looked more like the the usual local Council’s “. . pay your council tax IMMEDIATELY or you will be sent to prison!” type of letter that I usually get, but I have aready paid this month so it could be a rebate? I thought “Wow, the bastards have finally decided to help me out of my poverty”. I tore it open only to find a brightly coloured letter with loads of print and pictures, showing Old Age Pensioners smiling happily and posing by their new central heating boilers, cookers and the like. I won’t bore you with the all the details but it all boiled down to “You MAY be entitled to a Gov Grant, you COULD get as much as £3,000. Send us all your personal details together with loads of money and we will investigate your case to see which grants you MAY qualify for”. I’ve bolded the important words. Now isn’t that nice of them? Along comes some complete strangers who are so concerned about my financial postion that they feel compelled to go out of their way to help a poor old age pensioner. I find that very touching, but they are not touching my wallet, that’s for sure. I’m reading “My Life, it’s Ups and Downs” by ex-President Clinton at the moment. It’s interesting that he states in the book he actually asked Monica Lewinsky to ‘sack his cook’ and she misheard what he said because her hearing-aid was switched off at the time.
6 Comments posted on "Junk Mail"
Comments:
Invader_Stu on June 2nd, 2010 at 2:45 pm #
Was it an offer being made to you by a Nigerian prince who was forced out of his country?
sablonneuse on June 2nd, 2010 at 4:50 pm #
That’s as bad as the phone calls we get saying that ‘our agents are in your village’ and they’d love to come and find ways of saving you money on heating bills. If they won’t take ‘non merci’ for an answer I now hang up. I’m fed up with trying to be polite.
johng on June 2nd, 2010 at 6:42 pm #
You don’t touch your wallet!!
Keith on June 2nd, 2010 at 8:18 pm #
Stu: No, that was last week. This week it’s a solicitor in Russia who wants to give me £250,000! Sandy: I gave up being polite a long time ago. I just either put the phone down or tell them to go away in broad Anglo Saxon. John G: If I don’t touch my wallet who do you think buys you all those beers? Santa Claus?
helen on June 3rd, 2010 at 5:25 am #
They are getting clever now, we have had a few letters like this that we have to open because they don’t look like junk mail. We do put them to good use, we rip them up and put them in the composter
Blazing on June 3rd, 2010 at 12:36 pm #
Post them back without a stamp, Keith. It doesn’t do much good but you can amuse yourself with the thought that they are at least having to pay to receive them. Post a comment
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