thank you, sort of

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.  🙂