Dear Corporate Headquarters,
As a longtime customer, I am writing to inquire how I may obtain my name, address, and good humor back from your database of evil?
Many, many years ago, I began visiting your store with dear friends that had begun shopping for expandable pants and stretchy sweaters. It was like visiting the moon. There were clothes and accessories that I was unaware even existed. The mannequins made every pregnant woman appear to be a size 4 and carrying a basketball. It was the clubhouse for the club I wasnt invited to. Eventually I got an invitation and began to purchase a few items for myself as my middle changed to accommodate dear daughter, Claire.
This past October, I was just beginning to notice everything was alittle tight, so I popped into our local Motherhood Maternity Outlet to pick up one of the new accessosories invented and marketed as invaluable to the newly pregnant Mom. The kind sales lady asked for my name and phone number to make sure I was in the database…and I quickly forgot about it.
Unfortunately, I didnt continue to expand and I joined another club. The club house is darker and there isnt a special uniform. The accessory was thrown into the old box of other maternity clothes while my family and I tried to put the pieces of our spirit back together. After several months, things seemed back on track.
Then the mailman came. First, it was an advertisement every few weeks from ViaCord – the cord blood storage company. Then it was ads for parenting magazines. All easily ignored. But really! The samples of newborn diapers is just too much. I suppose I should prepare myself for the samples of formula in the coming days. It is just so ridiculously sad, that it’s comical. Will you send a “Birth” Day card to our baby-not-to-be?
I wonder how much money you made for selling my personal information? I hope it was alot, because I will be buying LOTS of pretty new maternity clothes one day, and not one dime will cross the threshold of your store.
KL
3 Comments
May 10, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I hope you sent this. I think it ROCKS! I hate the company too. Once they get your money, you can’t get it back. They will only give you a store credit for their clothes that won’t fit anyone normal and pregnant. Only those who were bulemic before they got pregnant.
T
May 10, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Oh sweetie, I’m so sorry. How thoughtless and careless people can be. Please know that I’m sending you big hugs tonight. (((Hugs)))
XOXOXO
Sheri
May 11, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Welcome Home Sheri!
I’m just sorry I didnt think of it sooner – I’ve thrown out a bunch of stuff already!
T – I didnt send it. After a while to think about it, I’ve decided to print it out with my blog address, stick it in a bag with all the samples I’m going to be rec’ing and drop it off at the mall store sometime around my due date!