the Cheesecake Factory is a bunch of sadists

[veronica_rich]

My sister and I signed up last year onto the Cheesecake Factory's emailing list, to get free offers and what-not; periodically we'll get a reminder of some holiday (with no specials) to encourage us to spend money. Last week we got an email titled "What Are You Doing For Mother's Day?"

My sister threatened to email them back with: Well, MY mother's dead. What are YOU doing for Mother's Day? Rub it in, why don't you?

Today I got an email from them titled "Veronica, Mom Wants Cheesecake." My immediate thought was, wait, did they have a seance, and the woman placed an order from beyond the grave? Am I expected to pay for that if they actually find a way to deliver it to her, or can she maybe put it instead on her BooExpress Card? (Motto: "Don't Leave This Earth Without It.")

/pondery

Comments

[kronette.livejournal.com]

I'm really, really grateful that my company doesn't have anything as sensitive as this to email out. I don't get upset, just perturbed, when Father's Day rolls around and my inbox fills with 'buy crap for your dad'. He died 11 years ago, but they have no way of knowing that. However, within a year of him dying, the American Cancer Society called me for a donation and I chokingly explained to them that he'd died of cancer the previous year. At first, the lady sort of went with the script, but then I did get mad and she quickly ended the call.

Emails don't bother me as much as the phone calls soliciting for money. Emails are easily deleted, but I feel bad when I hang up on solicitors (most of the time).

The "holiday" that annoys the crap out of me is Valentine's day. I'm what the guys get to call "a confirmed bachelor(ette)", so I don't need reminding every freaking place I go, thank you very much. Gah. Marketers.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I can't think of any holidays that really annoy me, and I'm trying, as I write this. If anything - and this is only when reminded of it very rarely - I'm kind of like Carrie in that one "Sex and the City" episode where she gets her nice shoes stolen at a baby shower because the parents insisted everyone de-shoe at the door to not track in dirt. She waited a while, then mentioned it nicely to the mother, and the mother offered to pay for a portion of the shoes, then lectured Carrie on her lifestyle when Carrie pointed out that was only about half their replacement price. As Carrie pointed out, she had spent how much? on wedding and baby gifts for this couple over the years, and they'd never had to get her ANYTHING because she hadn't married or had children. Then she goes on to point out how if a woman conforms to society's expectations and marries and/or has children, she often gets gifts for these, but if she stays single, she'll never get anything for her own other-type of accomplishments.