An Open Letter
Dear Fellow JoAnn Fabrics Patron,
I am writing to thank you for your kind consideration in volunteering to decorate my car. It was very sweet of you to do; I have often remarked, since the sad passing of my beloved Jane the 1997 Geo Metro hatchback, that I am now bereft of vehicular adornment, and have many times bemoaned my lack of bumper stickers.
I fear, however, that our tastes are slightly divergent. For instance, I would like to decorate my car with a few bumper stickers expressing feminist principles in pithy ways and perhaps something to remind other drivers of my bisexuality or commitment to the environment; whereas you chose to decorate my car with a wad of chewed gum in the center of the hood.
While I appreciate the sentiment--we all wish to make the world a more beautiful and pleasant place--I must inform you that I saw no choice but to remove your kind gift with my receipt and place it in the trash can located not twenty feet away.
In the future I hope you will find it appropriate to confine your artistic ventures to your own things or at least only the possessions of those who have asked for your assistance in such matters. It is a wonderful thing to want to share one's creativity with the world, but it is important to remember that everyone else does not share one's taste. I, for instance, would not place feminist bumper stickers upon the vehicles of others without their prior consent, because I have learned that not everyone enjoys the same bumperstickers as I. The world would surely be a singularly boring place if we were all alike!
Thank you again,
Wolf A. Woman, Slytherin
I am writing to thank you for your kind consideration in volunteering to decorate my car. It was very sweet of you to do; I have often remarked, since the sad passing of my beloved Jane the 1997 Geo Metro hatchback, that I am now bereft of vehicular adornment, and have many times bemoaned my lack of bumper stickers.
I fear, however, that our tastes are slightly divergent. For instance, I would like to decorate my car with a few bumper stickers expressing feminist principles in pithy ways and perhaps something to remind other drivers of my bisexuality or commitment to the environment; whereas you chose to decorate my car with a wad of chewed gum in the center of the hood.
While I appreciate the sentiment--we all wish to make the world a more beautiful and pleasant place--I must inform you that I saw no choice but to remove your kind gift with my receipt and place it in the trash can located not twenty feet away.
In the future I hope you will find it appropriate to confine your artistic ventures to your own things or at least only the possessions of those who have asked for your assistance in such matters. It is a wonderful thing to want to share one's creativity with the world, but it is important to remember that everyone else does not share one's taste. I, for instance, would not place feminist bumper stickers upon the vehicles of others without their prior consent, because I have learned that not everyone enjoys the same bumperstickers as I. The world would surely be a singularly boring place if we were all alike!
Thank you again,
Wolf A. Woman, Slytherin