Just a little note that I sent to my friendly banker several years ago.
Dear
Mr. XXXXX
This
is the forth anniversary of my association with you, and I would like to take
this opportunity to thank you personally for your unflagging generosity. It
started, I suppose, with my Master Card application which was promptly denied
for reasons I've long since forgotten. Then, strangely enough, a charge card
from your bank bearing my name followed shortly thereafter. I began to use my
Master Card routinely, assuming the billing department had simply made an error
in sending me the card denial, I might add I used the card exclusively as I had
no other charge card. Two, three, four months passed; then one day it occurred
to me that I would not be receiving a bill. Not one. Though I kept few receipts
I calculated my charges to be well over a ten thousand dollars at the time. As
the months rolled by I was certain the computer accounting error would be
revealed, a mammoth bill would be sent, and that I would be held accountable
for my actions.
The
years have clipped by now, as I've said, four in all, and as regular as the
seasons I've continued to use your colorful card, but never an invoice. As the
prices have risen so drastically in the last couple of years I have been forced
to spread your generosity by sharing
my credit privileges with my many relatives who have found their budgets
shorted by ever rising etertainment costs.
This
morning I had a new waterbed delivered to my home. This afternoon my ex-wife is
getting a tune-up and a brake job at one of the many auto repair shops in this
area. She, too, sends best wishes for your continued success. After all these
years I have grown confident that my name and number are locked, eternally
silent, in a minuscule electrical impulse somewhere in the computer's faulty
chip, or senile memory bank. Or, it may simply be that someone you know is
helping me, unbeknownst to you or your generous bank. I wonder how many other
folks are being "helped" this way and have chosen not to write you?
Unable to repay you now even if I were billed, I can only send you this note of
teeming thanks.
Sincerely,
A Fan With
Many New Toys
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