I've been told off for this...
... but MrsP reminds me...

I have been known, over the past decade or so, to select a random address when I travel and to send a postcard there. It will be very chatty and familiar - the sort of thing you might send your grandmother if you had got her address wrong: the point - well, there isn't much of one - is simply to confuse people.

Friends of mine have told me that this is utterly indefensible, because it might genuinely scare people - I might have accidentally chosen someone who has a stalker/ has been attacked/ blah blah blah. I simply don't get the power of the objection, though.

Does anyone have any thoughts? Should I stop or carry on?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:07, 5 replies)

Carry on
It sounds like a fantastic art project.

Or just plain daft.


Either works for me.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:08, closed)

Thanks
I try to defend it on the grounds of daftness. My friends aren't normally that pofaced...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:10, closed)

funny
;)
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:11, closed)

'Ning, Pookie!

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:12, closed)

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I have been known, on the odd occaision, to do the same.

Along similar lines, and with the added bonus that you get to see the resulting confusion, is to send it to someone you know who doesn't know you're away, say extremely bizarre/disturbed things, and sign it with a made-up name. Things like explaining a rash in great detail and asking if they think you should see a doctor about it, or pondering the nature of the universe and soliciting feedback.
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:24, closed)