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

[kahva.livejournal.com]

I got that email too. I've learned to turn my brain off when I get emails that have "Mom" or "Dad" in the subject line - it helps me to read the email to see if anything they have on sale might be something *I* could use.

My biggest dread though is still when I go out to buy Father's Day or Mother's Day cards for say, my brother, niece or sister-in-law, that a too helpful salesperson will cheerfully say, "Getting a card for you Mom/Dad?" So I've stuck with getting cards from Walmart or Target or the grocery store to avoid awkward situations like that. Started doing that pretty quickly after Dad died, made it easier to deal with things.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

That doesn't bother me too much. The other person is the one who always ends up feeling awkward or bad when I answer, and it's their choice if they want to continue to drag it out with some long unwanted apology, or just say, "Oh, sorry about that, then. What can I help you find?"

[kahva.livejournal.com]

I dread it enough that I just do my best to avoid the situation. 3 years out from losing Mom now, and this July will be 14 years since we lost Dad, so it probably wouldn't bother me too much at this point. But for the time being I'll just avoid the possibility as much as I can to keep me any anyone else from feeling awkward.

And on a totally unrelated note - What the heck has LJ done now? This reply window doesn't look anything like it used to!