The Money is Rolling In
I get a ton of junkmail at work. It almost all goes straight to the trash. Today while I was pitching sent garbage in left and right my eye was drawn to the return address on one of the nondescript envelopes. It was from Stillwater, MN which is just a couple of towns over from me. My curiosity piqued - I opened the mail.
To my surprise there was a dollar bill clipped to the junk, which happened to be a survey from one of the trade magazines I subscribe to. I’ve seen this trick before - Prognostics once sent my a fiver (yes, during the internet boom) but on that one I seem to recall it being pretty obvious from the outside. Here there was just an envelope that looked like any other junk and only because I happened to notice the return address did I open it.
Now is where it gets really weird. After going through a few more pieces of junkmail I ran across another different looking but similarly plain looking envelope that had the name of a research company on it. “That smells like money,” I thought and sure enough, another crisp George Washington.
On this one they took pains to point out that it was my third notice, meaning I had already pitched two bucks out in the trash.
It’s not going to make me take the time to respond to any of this crap but I might have to take more care in opening some of that junk now, there could be a greenback waiting for me.
