A Chinese-American physician friend just sent us her “Happy 2018” card (not technically “Christmas card” but the order is red with white snowflakes and there is an “oh what fun” in script across the front, so I fear that this is tainted with the Christmas spirit).
The accompanying letter violates a few conventions for the genre. For example, on the merits of children being 9 and 10: “At last I can count on sleeping through the night, interrupted only by my own bladder.” On the joys of cat ownership: “They went on a spree of indoor urination after [the dog] died [age 12], anointing three couches, an armchair, and a mattress before finally winding down. We now have a hammock in the living room for visitors.”
Readers: What are the best Christmas/New Years messages you’ve gotten in 2017?
I find it almost impossible to believe that despite all the jokes and criticism, there are still folks who attach a letter to their holiday card and said letter drones on and on about completely non-eventful stuff the sender and or their extended family experienced during the previous twelve months.
I have a neighbor who does this and sometimes their letter is multi-paged with not one interesting subject. I mean seriously, who cares that your son’s wife and her cousin spent a week in Nag’s Head last June?