I don't usually write letters

[ksmith]

...but Macy's/Marshall Fields has been running a radio ad the last few days that irritated me. A man and woman meet on a blind date. It becomes obvious fairly quickly that the man is an asocial bumbler, a point driven home near the end of the commercial, when he asks the woman if she knows about the "sci-fi convention" that's going on that weekend.

I wrote a letter. Mentioned the names of two stores in which I would no longer be spending my money. The term "cold day in a hot place" saw the light.

I am ticked, dammit.