Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for December 14, 2023

Better than nothing I guess.

I don’t DO Christmas cards, and I make no apology for it. I used to work in the sales department of a specialty oil and grease manufacturing company, and I had to hand address between 400 and 600 cards every year for my salesmen. Overachiever that I was, my cards weren’t just handwritten, they were hand lettered (calligraphy). Once I left that job after 22 years, I decided I was done.

How personal. He could’ve sent an email.

Feel the love.

Save time too if it is read in a warm sentimental way over the office sound system. Better yet, a YouTube or Tik Tok bite but don’t include anything about the current date so you can use it again in the future.

I don’t know what the big deal is here, that’s good enough for me…

when you care enough to do the very least

I sent emails to co-workers stating I was making a donation in their name to the Human Fund

Most cards go in the trash or recycling anyway after being read once. This just makes sense.

I quit sending cards 50 years ago when we were so broke it would have actually been a serious burden. Most people didn’t send one the next year, and almost everyone had stopped by five years. I still have one relative who sends one, but she is doing it partly as a joke. II may surprise her with a return card some day, just for the fun of it.

Okay.

It’s the thought that counts! or in this case, the thought of cheaping-out.

it’s the thought that counts…right?…right?!?!

I’d have to ask, why not? Face to face. Smile, please.

I thought it would be signed “Gary, the Wise man”.

What a bloody wishy washy non committed sentiment. Afraid of being cancelled or one of those idiot professional offendee cancellers???