I got a thank you sent to my work address for helping with the commencement this past spring. It was a form letter. Which is fine, except that it said it was for the fall commencement. And it took 3 weeks to get through the campus mail. And the envelope had the “verboten” logo of Ohio’s Polytechnic University – i.e. getting rid of their old envelopes.
Sigh. I think they could have skipped it, frankly.
I also got a thank-you for another project. This one included a hand-written card and, for some reason, a scratch off lottery ticket. I dutifully scratched off the ticket and found that I had won!
3 dollars.
Not really worth the effort of turning it in, I guess. I had worked with my boss’s boss on the project, so I took a picture of the winning ticket and emailed it to him with a note about how we won. And that I owned him $1.50. 🙂
He emailed me back with a photo of his winning ticket – for $15.00 – and said that he owned me.
Pretty funny.
I don’t quite get the “scratch-off lottery ticket” as a gift and though I was a little disappointed in the form letter, I’m a firm believer in thanking people – especially when they go out of their way. Seems like the right thing to do and I think we need to do more of that.
So, thank you for reading my blog. 🙂