Let's Celebrate!

I'm not a "card guy" per se. I rarely think about sending birthday cards, or having congratulation cards on hand for various accomplishments of my friends and family. In fact, I rarely see the inside of a Hallmark store unless it's the day of the event or I've been dragged in by Heather. It just doesn't occur to me that sending a card is the proper response to anything.

But some friends of ours are getting ready to baptize their first child and we needed a card to go along with the gift. So while she tried to select the perfect "Happy Baptism" card to express how we felt, I decided to peruse the aisles and see what other special occasions could be marked with the presentation of art combined with clever lines of text from the people at Hallmark. That's when I came across this:



That's right, "Thank You For Dinner". While I will admit that I may be on the far end of the spectrum regarding how often someone sends a card... who would possibly send one of these? And what do you write on the inside?

"Dear Thelma, the meatloaf last Tuesday was fabulous. The potatoes were a little dry, but that's to be expected from a convection oven. Hope you and your 15 cats are doing well."

I guess this is yet another product that I'm not the target market for. I also don't understand the creepy valentines doll that sings "Lets Get It On" to you when you enter the store. But enough about my inability to understand the appeal of Hallmark. If I don't get started on these "Thanks for Reading my Blog" cards, I'll never get all of them in the mail.

Rob -

Thanks Mitch!

Senator Mitch McConnell thinks that Americans have become desensitized to how much money 1 trillion dollars really is.

I can't speak for everyone else, but as an "Average American" I know exactly how much money 1 trillion dollars is. I don't need loosely veiled comparisons to spending habits in the time of Jesus Christ or the visual of 1 trillion dollar bills stacked halfway to the moon. I know that those sums of money don't actually exist as anything more than concepts. If you can't comprehend it, try and type a 1 with 12 zeros behind it into your desktop calculator. You'll most likely run out of space at 10 million, which puts you at 1/100,000th of the amount you're looking to understand.

So Senator, thanks but I understand the concept of 1 trillion dollars. Free up a few hours in your schedule and I'll be happy to come to Washington with 100,000 desktop calculators and explain it to you. It's becoming increasingly obvious that you and all your congressional buddies have no idea.

-Rob-