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I was handed a greeting card today that is being sent as a group to someone who has hit a ‘rough patch’. I can’t go into much detail with out treading on their personal crisis, but I will say that he brought the trouble on himself and it took me a very long time to decide what to write. In the end I settled on “I’m sorry you are having such a rough time, and I’m sure you are more than ready to get back to the everyday ho-hum. Take care. S”. And I still feel like I lied because I’m really not sorry. He screwed up - practically on purpose - and he’s paying the price.
I’ve encountered the same problem while standing in a card store. Each card I put back in the rack gets a rating ... too mushy, too silly, just wrong, NO WAY. I don’t think D suffers with this, he picks one that is pretty (usually with a dragonfly on the front) and is finished. Heaven help him if someone puts sympathy cards in the ‘Love’ section or I’m going to get a very pretty ‘I’m so sorry for you loss’ card on my 40th birthday, but then again that may not be so wrong.
I know I’m not the only person who takes card choosing seriously, there are always one or two others, usually women, that handle nearly every card in the place before choosing one. And when I can’t find a perfect card I shoot for humor, usually Maxine, because if nothing else she say it like it is. Perhaps I could have sent a Maxine card to Mr. Rough Patch, providing of course there is one that says “I’m sorry you are so stupid”. That, at least, would be true.