This is a bit late, but it can’t be ignored. And I KNOW there were a lot more important terrible things going on last year, and they can’t be measured against each other, but with a certain amount of perspective, I really believe that this was the epitome of evil.
I got this 8 by 5 junk mail insert for Vonage, for cell phone service, in the mail– it didn’t even come with an address on it, I think it came with a package of junk mail. Anyway, when I went to recycle it all, as I usually do, tearing it all up, I couldn’t tear up this particular ad– BECAUSE IT’S PLASTIC! It is indestructible. In fact, I’ve kept it around just because of that reason, so perhaps I’m playing right into their hands.
But no… not me, anyway. I’m so disgusted by this, I would never get cell phone service from this company. (I will also never get phone service from AT&T, or anyone owned by AT&T—not that Vonage is, but I just had to throw that in.) Eventually my choices may be really limited! But I’ll use two tin cans and a string before I’ll get phone service from any of these companies.
I guess what I’ll do with this plastic card ad is write on it what I think, how much it sickens me, then put it into a time capsule that I have for last year and am about to seal. I wonder how many of these ads they printed? Probably millions. I don’t think there is any way to get rid of these, except maybe by burning them. I guess there will be millions of these things floating around, intact in landfills, clogging waterways, not decaying, just sitting there– for how many years? Who knows? Forever. They’ll still be around, for sure, long after I am pushing up daisies.
