QUEEN ETHELBURGA
May 19th, 2007 Posted in Amusing EventsYou know when you sign up for something, you have to tick the box to say that you don’t want that company to allow “certain, selected partners” to contact you with promotions that “you may find interesting”? Well today I had a moment like that.
The envelope was white and unmarked, it was franked but not by a corporation so I opened it with a sense of intrigue. I pulled out the contents.
There, in my hand, was a letter from Queen Ethelburga’s College, York with accompanying prospectus and invitation to an Open Day.
Dear Mr Cook,
Please find enclosed a personal invitation to our Open Day on Saturday 9th June 2007 together with a small pamphlet. Why not come along and see the facilities for yourself, you could also take advantage of our special Open Day Awards which are available for parents who register their children at Open Day.
This struck me as a little strange for a couple of reasons:
1. I live nowhere near York.
2. There is more chance of small, moomin-like extra terrestrials taking over the Earth than me having children at this moment in time.
3. Even if 2. was to happen, there is no way I could afford to send a child to Queen Ethelburga’s College or indeed any boarding school.
4. Coming from a College, the author of the letter should have realised that a question mark was necessary at the end of the rhetorical second sentence.
So a word of advice for all you people who don’t read the small print when you sign up to something - expect the unexpected. And the bizarre. And the non-applicable.
