Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Commentary

To have an opinion is fine, and as human beings it is a right to be treated with the respect that was given to you by the all mighty and your parents. TA! DA!
But to make loud noises of little effectiveness and much abusive behavior is just downright rude.
And that’s my OPINION!
Sure we have the right to complain and again today I did just that.
You see, we were given an offer to try a new magazine to us, not really a new magazine, just for our purposes; being one that we had not gotten before, got that?
The Smithsonian, a fine magazine which in its heyday I am more than sure that it was jam packed full of intelligent information for the scientific community and us others… But unfortunately, today it has the alienation potential that I have found let’s say a flaw of so many magazines these days, too much advertising and not enough substance!
I say, in my opinion again that we have enough catalogues for that sort of thing in all venues of technology and otherwise…Although, I do understand the reasoning of needing to fund the magazine, just like a TV commercial does…
But that was not my only complaint it was that the initial postcard mailed to me had the offer as one free issue to decide if you wanted to order a years subscription, and yesterday the first one came and today the second one came too…
Hubby and I gave it the once over and we both decided that it did not meet our needs with substance of use for our continued learning purposes like years ago when we subscribed to National Geographic mostly for the boys for school but we enjoyed it too…

Oddly enough, when we lived in NJ we used to drive the five and half hours often for long weekends, camping in Lake Fairfax Virginia, to go to the Smithsonian’s in D.C. and our sons loved it! And Benji, our Yorkie, got to go into them too via his soft carrier, no wonder he was so bright eyed and bushy tailed and acted not much different from the movie Benji. We enjoyed also bringing things home from the farmer’s market ala coolers along the Potomac and on Labor Day weekends, if I also recall that was when they occurred, watching the Frisbee dog competitions on the mall lawn were really terrific! We, so much had a happier time then…

Any-who, so I called the subscription department by way of their 800 line and let them know that we decided that we did not want to subscribe and I told them why.
I also let them know that their marketing practice of sending more than one so close together was wasteful and not cost effective to the company.
The young woman in Tampa told me it was their policy and I told her that she should tell them it stinks, the more they waste money the more they have no money to pay their employees!
She agreed.
Is it just me who sees the simplicity in it all?

Another problem cropped up too today that I handled almost similarly but realized after hearing both sides, it ended up finding me with egg all over my face and apologizing and making nice, nice…
And yes, I do admit when I am wrong.
But fortunately, it doesn’t happen that often! KIDDING FOLKS!
Sure I am wrong too much of the time, but I do know when to say that I am sorry and when to hold my ground… or not?
Learning that that will teach you that old dogs can learn new tricks, huh?

That is why opinion-wise I have not recently weighed-in about all the media circuses going on from national politics to local happenings…I don’t know enough yet to have one.
Sometimes I do listen before I speak, ha!

On that which seems nearly an impossibility, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly count all your blessings and to kindly share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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