He's still an idiot.

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He's still an idiot.
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Thu, 12-14-2006 - 9:29pm

I went to the post office the other day to get holiday stamps to mail my cards out. I ran into X while I was there-- he was also mailing some cards out. While I was affixing my postage, I commented to him, "oh, you're sending out some cards". He replied, "I usually send cards out at Christmas". I just stood there, dumbstruck. Every year, since 1986, *I* was the one to send out the holdiay cards (plus the birthday and anniversary cards)-- 75% of them to HIS relatives (some of them I've never even MET before, and wouldn't know them from Adam if I ran into them on the street). And for the past 4 years that we had the storage, he'd *suggest* to me that I send cards to each of our customers. Handwritten cards ONLY, "and by the way, put in a personalized note in each card", and "oh, also send cards out with the handwritten, personalized note to past customers, NOT just the current ones". Which meant an extra 40-60 or so on top of the 50-60 I already sent out to his family.

So I guess because HE suggested to ME to write out the Xmas cards, then in his pea-brain that means that HE actually spent 2 weeks preparing all the holiday mailings. Ah ha.

I wonder if he sent the handwritten notes out to the customers this year? I'll have to ask him.

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Sat, 12-16-2006 - 9:15pm

I can't read my own handwriting... so that was never an issue for us.


Karen ~ wildlucky4me ~

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Sat, 12-16-2006 - 10:13pm
My X was quite adamant about our storage business having a mom-and-pop-type philosophy... and *I* ended up having to make it possible, whether it was doing the brochures, Xmas cards, you name it. X would just kick back and read his Reader's Digest, and take a nap, while I was busting my butt looking up software, creating ads, websites, flyers, hanwritten notes... X is just SO clueless, I just marvel at him, you know?


Edited 12/16/2006 10:17 pm ET by susieyippin