Why Are You Giving Her That?

[catcul]

My mother received a calendar from Farnam, a horse care company. It includes stickers for farrier care, horse shows, and visits to the vet. There are three problems: she doesn't own a horse; she has never owned a horse; and the city she lives in doesn't allow horses.

Thanks for the calendar, Farnam.

[Estil]

I keep getting things in the mail advertising State Farm Auto Insurance...even though I've never owned a vehicle and I've never been a licensed driver (for mental/emotional health reasons I cannot). Geez, don't they check their mailing lists? :P

[dalesys]

... a horse care company...

A) A horse laugh.
B) A horse's ...
C) "The old grey mare..."

[Pixilated]

I keep getting things in the mail advertising State Farm Auto Insurance...even though I've never owned a vehicle and I've never been a licensed driver (for mental/emotional health reasons I cannot). Geez, don't they check their mailing lists? :P

Nope, LOL.

[XCashier]

As long as it's an attractive calendar (lots of pics of pretty horses, I presume?), no point in not using it. I've gotten odd calendars for things I don't follow (a New Age one once, and a Greenpeace one another year) and as long as the pictures are nice and not vulgar or gross, I see no sense in wasting a perfectly good calendar.

[ADeMartino]

I love being on a mailing list. The stuff I get is surreal. Someone thinks I buy scented candles, for instance, because I keep getting booklets about them, like clockwork, every month. Let's be clear on this - the only 'scented' candle I ever bought smelled like citronella. AOL keeps sending me shit - addressed to ME, personally - even though I haven't even considered an account with them in nearly 20 years. John Deere keeps sending me literature, too. No idea why.

But the one that took the cake happened almost 30 years ago, when I was in the Navy. I went to mail call one day, and got a letter from the Army, telling me all the wonderful benefits of military service. Yes, that's right - the ARMY sent a recruitment packet to an FPO (Fleet Post Office) address, complete with rank and serial number! Gee guys, I'd love to enlist, but there's a little problem....

Your tax dollars at work, folks.

[dalesys]

... the ARMY sent a recruitment packet to an FPO (Fleet Post Office) address...

Tired of that sinking feeling? Just change your service!

[otakuneko]

Tired of that sinking feeling? Just change your service!

We promise you won't have to swab the deck, but you might have to dig a latrine.

[MoonCat]

I've gotten catalogs for machinery and tools. The most "mechanical" thing I've ever done is replace a toilet lid. I clean the bathtub drain out with a pickle fork (well I used to....) No idea where they got my name.

When my sister was in high school she once got a catalog from Frederick's of Hollywood.

[CrappyToHelp]

I keep receiving lovely booklets from the UK Conservative Party addressed to me.

1) I've never signed up to anything of theirs.
2) I think their Prime Minister is a moron.
3) I'm on the opposite side of the political spectrum.

I never read them but I often go to the local library and leave them on the newspapers table.

[Difdi]

There's at least one mailing list out there that thinks I'm a 70+ year old female smoker. I've never smoked anything in my life, and I'm not even 40 yet. I'm also male.

Go figure.

[Monterey Jack]

I've never owned a car, yet I keep getting Spam e-mails for car services and financing and shit.

[Racket_Man]

I've never owned a car, yet I keep getting Spam e-mails for car services and financing and shit.

We used to get phone calls telling us that our car warranty was expiring and it needed to be renewed. The problem was that BOTH of our cars were old enough (10 and 9 years old at the time) AND bought used several years after the initial sale that ANY manufactores warranty had long since become deceased, dead, buried, snuffed and ceased to be alive anymore .

Always good for a laugh

[NecessaryCatharsis]

I've never owned a car, yet I keep getting Spam e-mails for car services and financing and shit.

I frequently get spam emails offering to enlarge a piece of anatomy I don't possess, and others offering to improve blood flow to it.

[Canadian In Maine]

I've never owned a car, yet I keep getting Spam e-mails for car services and financing and shit.

Hope I'm allowed to do this: