I always have some idea of what I'm going to write, but lately I forget just as I'm ready to actually do the writing.  Anyways, here something I forgot from last time.  I was going to write something else too, but I forgot, hee hee.

"Our Survey Says..."

So being a new car owner, I'm getting all these surveys in the mail about how I feel about my new car.  These aren't your average 10 question type surveys.  They are like 10 pages long.  Anyways, I just throw them away, but this one survey company sends a dollar bill with their survey.  This is a really interesting marketing idea cuz they give me the dollar to do the survey so I feel bad by taking the money but not doing the survey.  This worked on me one time cuz I had the dollar and I didn't know what to do with it so I did the survey.  The survey took like 45 minutes which has got to be the cheapest labor I have ever performed.  Even volunteer work has gotten me a free meal, ha ha.  So they sent me another survey this week with another dollar in it.  I'm not sure what they expect to hear from me that's different in just 3 months.  "Oh I love my car, and now I hate it 3 months later.  I just need to tell someone who will listen!"  Ha ha.  Anyways, this is what I did.  I put that dollar and the blank survey in the business reply envelope and put the following note in there as well:

I am sorry I do not have time to fill out another survey.  I am returning your dollar as it is unfair to be paid for something I cannot do.  Please take me off your mailing list as I do not wish to fill out any more surveys.  Consequently, one dollar does not compensate me for my time.  While I appreciate your marketing cleverness, it will not succeed with me.

Ha ha.  I felt really smart and clever for about 5 hours and then I realized I didn't send my address in the note and I only signed it so even if they want to remove me from their mailing list, they won't be able to really find out who sent them their dollar back.  Anyways, it's still precious to think someone is opening all these surveys and actually gets the dollar back with a "no thanks".  It's probably posted on the wall outside one of the cubicles with a note like "this dork never told us his name or address so we could remove him".  Well, you know what they say, "third time's the charm."