On a Postcard

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Come on, be honest. Who really gives a fig these days about Xmas cards?. As we shuffle towards another debt filled Xmas season who actually watches the post for these inane pieces of paper ordering you to ‘have a happy Xmas’? I certainly do not and whats more, I wish others would not as well.

Firstly, you only get cards from people who you have not heard from since they last sent you a Xmas card - keeps the guilt away from not having called/emailed/faxed or bothered you over the past 12 months you see. And when you do get them the sender has annoyingly just ’signed’ their name underneath the preprinted text. They can’t be bothered to write anything else. Also, a card just on its own is annoying - no photograph, no letter, no money ‘for the kiddies to spend’ are included.

If you have bothered to buy cards at all you will have bought those bulk ‘1000 cards for £1′ at the local Lidl or Aldi, so you know straightaway when you receive a card in the post where THAT card came from!. I once sent out 20 cards to people and got almost the same identical cards sent to me. Its a wonder we didn’t bump into each other at Tesco that day.

And don’t get me started on the ‘circular’ Xmas letter. That form-type of letter that gets photocopied and sent out to everyone - how personal.

This year I will be Xmas card free - last year I sent none out at all, so hopefully those who posted me theirs will have gotten the message. Come to think of it…I can’t even remember who I sent them to as I haven’t seen them for over a year.

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It was almost the perfect crime, and they almost got away with it. Short scenario: husband goes canoeing one night and disappears. Wife collects very large life insurance policy and takes off for Panama where she buys a luxurious house. Five years later husband reappears in the UK and claims ‘amnesia’ for the last five years.

Like I said, they almost got away with it. The problem is that a while back they were both photographed together in an advertisement for a real estate agency in Panama.  But he was supposed to be dead wasn’t he?.

John and Anne Darwin are now facing one hell of an insurance fraud case against them in the UK. And why not?. Cases like these are why the rest of us have to pay such high premiums and adhere to such strict guidelines. But why on earth go to such ridiculous lengths in order to buy a house in Panama?.

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