Subj : deaf and dumb
To   : Bob Roberts
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Jan 25 2021 09:40:00

Hello Bob!

** On Friday 22.01.21 - 14:46, Bob Roberts wrote to August Abolins:

 BR> Are you often the recipient of singing telegrams?  It must
 BR> have happened at least once if this was even a
 BR> possibility...

Not often.  I would not really expect one delivered to my rural  
town.  But I am totally familiar with the service - I even  
considered participating in that business (for some fun and  
extra cash) at one time when I lived in a city.  That could have  
lead to a kind of strip-telegram, but I digress.  :D


 BR> .. A person, claiming to be deaf, will hand out cards
 BR> indicating their are deaf and soliciting a donation.
 BR> Sometimes it will be accompanied by an item which you can
 BR> keep if you donate.  It's most often a small package of
 BR> tissues.  They will start at one end of the car, hand out
 BR> all their cards and tissue, then go back and pick up the
 BR> tissue, and/or donations left.

Yes, they prey on one's guilty feelings.

At those times I imagined that all they needed as a  
reciprocating "card" handed back to them, telling them how  
pathetic their attempts are.

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  ../|ug

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