Tonight I cleaned out our cars. What with the busy schedules we have, I wasn't surprised that I had several bagfulls of stuff to take in. I was however surprised to find that most of it was unopened mail. All of it was unimportant. No, really. And probably 95% of it was credit card offers.

My gosh, Visa, Mastercard and American Express. Did you not get it when we didn't respond to your first thousand offers in 2003? Did you really need to keep sending offers, complete with plastic fake credit cards that are completely useless, and do nothing but crowd landfills? Did you really need to slaughter entire forests to tell me that I am pre-approved for a silver/platinum/gold card with 0% interest until January of 2006? And will you really be surprised when I mail you a receipt so that you can reimburse me for the new shredder I'll need to buy, because I burned out the motor on my present one shredding all of the junk you send out?

Guess what, credit card companies? You've been approved to buy me a new shredder and quit sending me stuff. Offer valid indefinitely. :-P