Letters to the Editor
May I have your permission to adapt your saying, “Thank you for your well-meaning yet uninformed letter of _____date.”
The phrase will become indispensable to the many occasions when I need to reply to a form letter.
For example … “Thank you for your woolly-minded, uninformed letter of _____date.” Without the reference to a specific date, I doubt that the correspondent would ever find the form letter he dispensed.
Or … “Your well-meaning yet uninformed letter of _____date, reminds me of an incident at my neighbor’s house last week. The neighbor’s five-year-old son took the garden hose and filled the gas tank of his father’s car. Dad was, of course, furious. Mom kept hollering that the kid was helping Daddy, he meant well.” Meaning well is not always enuff!
Anyway, Richard, your ‘well-meaning yet uninformed letter‘ is a phrase for the ages. I wanna steal it. “without any additional compensation, I might add.”
Joe McTaggart
Self-Described Headhunter
San Jose, CA
