Misanthropy Today

Yesterday for Thanksgiving I received 10 generic fwd style text messages that all looked something like this:

Gobble Gobble, Happy Turkey Day!:)

Or

Hey Everyone Have A Happy T Day! ^_^

A couple things:

• People do usually eat turkeys on Thanksgiving but the entire day is not about turkey. I think it’s weird when people call it “turkey day”. I eat turkey on other days too.
• On Thanksgiving (that’s what we adults call it) you’re supposed to be Thankful for what you have as a human, as an American, etc.

I dread these text messages every holiday and Thanksgiving was no exception.

An interesting detail of these messages is that 100% of them were sent by women (10/10) whom I don’t know very well.

What is the point of these?

Here’s a suggestion:

Write a personal happy holiday text message to each friend individually. Here’s an example:

Hey Greg, Happy Thanksgiving, <Insert Personal Detail Here> .

Please do not send me any of these for Christmas, unless you’ve come up with a clever way to mock these types of messages. Seriously I grind my teeth when I open my mailbox and see them.

Oh yeah. Happy Thansgiving.

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