What would happen without the warning?

[brujaja]

I got some junk mail (the dead-tree kind) attempting to convince me to fill out an application for a credit card with a rather…aggressive financial organization. At a rate which is sucky, to say the least.

Inside this waste of resources was a piece of cardboard about the size of – oh, say, a credit card. It is CARDBOARD. It doesn’t have my name on it, or a 16-digit number, or in fact anything embossed; the back of it has no signature space or magnetic strip. It is blank, almost, except where it says:

THIS IS NOT AN ACTUAL CREDIT CARD.

(Did I mention it is made out of CARDBOARD?)

Are there really people actually that dumb?

[The_Them]

Hey man, stuff like that is what refrigerator doors are for! Or the other way around.

My faves are the ones that are so thoughtful, they PRE-APPROVE me, and all they ask for is a $79.95 initiation fee and $39.95/year in exchange for a munificent…$300 credit line.

Don’t forget to mail back the pre-paid envelope (sans brick or other tomfoolery)! Costs them, the Post Office makes a few extra cents, and the world is a better place!

I’m grinning as I write this, but I think this is more Pit than MPSIMS. Just sayin.’