3 weeks after the initial conversation where the Board President insisted that the annual campaign letters be personalized (so instead of saying, "Dear Friends of Camp" it says "Dear John Smith"), and we had to scrap 2 weeks worth of planning and work to find a printing company to accommodate our needs as well as our budget, we have a resolution. Board President called a friend of a friend who owns a printing company and could cut us a deal. This morning, I got the estimate. To have the letters mail merged added $900 onto the price (which makes me think I'm totally in the wrong business, because that seems EXCESSIVE, but everything these days seems expensive, so that's just that).
I called Mr. President himself to say, "dude, no way" (er, well something like that) and he replied with, "Yeah, let's just do them as "Dear Friend of Camp". At which point it was like a scene from a movie where everything rewinds really quickly and you see a flashback of three weeks ago, and I slammed my palm against my forehead, gritted my teeth and told him, "okay, no problem" even though what I really meant was, "I TOLD YOU THAT THREE WEEKS AGO!! AM I INVISIBLE OR ARE YOU JUST TRYING TO GIVE ME A STROKE?!?!?"
So now the letters are being printed and life can move forward and the mail merge drama is over. Life is good.
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