I was searching for an anniversary card for my son and daughter-in-law the other day, and I mean searching! You wouldn’t have thought it would have taken me so long. It wasn’t like there was a lot to choose from, and the ones that were “topic” appropriate, weren’t appropriate at all! I settled for a blank one. I could write something infinitely better than what these knuckleheads were being paid to write!
I enjoy funny cards as well as sentimental ones. Depends on the occasion and what feelings I’m trying to convey. I do not find demeaning cards amusing, nor bathroom humor, nor sophomoric sex jokes. To even use the word humor in context with those things is a grave disservice to the word. And yes, I roll my eyes at people who think it’s funny.
If you give your spouse an anniversary card that says, “They say married people live longer”, to which the other person responds, “It only feels like it”, don’t be surprised if your spouse gives you a card with the number of a divorce attorney on it! Who thinks a card like that is amusing? If you do, you’re in the wrong relationship!
Ellen DeGeneres once said that, “If you have to say, ‘just kidding’, you’re not doing it right. If you’re just kidding, we’d both be laughing”. You have to look hard at some of these greeting cards to find anybody laughing. If you stumble across one that would make everybody laugh, buy it! Buy them all!
The sentimental ones can be a little easier, but a lot of time they say too much, filling both inside pages leaving me with barely enough room to sign my name. What if I wanted to say something? “Sorry, leave that to the professionals!” Other times they don’t say enough and you kind of wonder if they even tried. Now you have to do half their job for them and come up with just the right words, when that is why you bought the card in the first place!
Kevin James did a comic bit about women buying greeting cards. It was pretty funny and fairly accurate. We do take forever. Guilty as charged. He said we look, and think, then look some more. We are on the hunt, which requires patience. Once we find the perfect card we check the price, then put it back! Been there, done that! What are they printing these cards on? Must be something very rare! I finally decided on an appropriate card, funny, yet not insulting. I flipped it over and saw $6.95! It went back! How about we find something “perfect” in the $3.95 range! It’s got four words on it! Six tops, for crying out loud! Tell you what. I won’t complain about paying $6.00 if the creative think tank does a little more creative thinking.
Funny, I’ve done the same thing, when I find a good one I buy several. You should be writing greeting cards!
Sometimes I want to take three or four and cut and paste bits from each to make a better card. I don’t because of the total cost. When I receive a well worded note, I save it; it is more valuable than several from the store. Please write some greeting cards.
Your comment made me laugh & that’s a clever idea about, “cut & paste”.
Greeting cards might be your calling, Sheri! You could save us all a lot of time searching and not finding.
Nicely said. 🙂