This post brought to you by the letter M
As the response cards flow back, there's a phenomenon brewing.
No, it's not the wonderful notes so many people are attaching...the regrets are doing a fine job of writing beautiful wishes. Especially you, My High School English Teacher! You're the best EVER!
It's the line where people are to write their names. It looks like this:
M__________________________________
(followed by "___number attending)
This, obviously, is intended to start out a "Mr.," "Mrs.," or "Ms." But people are doing otherwise.
To date, we have received response cards from three people named Matthew. All are attending (it's a part of our Affirmative Action Program For Matthews). Two of them used the M to start their first name. In other words, one put "att Surname" in the blank, while another put "atthew Lastname and Dana Lastname" in the blank. Would I have thought to do that?
Stranger still were my parents. My dear mother wrote "om and Dad" in the blank.
Now I'm eager to have someone whose name does NOT start with M (or who I don't call "Mom") to use the M in a creative way. Something like: "ost happily, John and Jane Jones will attend."
No, it's not the wonderful notes so many people are attaching...the regrets are doing a fine job of writing beautiful wishes. Especially you, My High School English Teacher! You're the best EVER!
It's the line where people are to write their names. It looks like this:
M__________________________________
(followed by "___number attending)
This, obviously, is intended to start out a "Mr.," "Mrs.," or "Ms." But people are doing otherwise.
To date, we have received response cards from three people named Matthew. All are attending (it's a part of our Affirmative Action Program For Matthews). Two of them used the M to start their first name. In other words, one put "att Surname" in the blank, while another put "atthew Lastname and Dana Lastname" in the blank. Would I have thought to do that?
Stranger still were my parents. My dear mother wrote "om and Dad" in the blank.
Now I'm eager to have someone whose name does NOT start with M (or who I don't call "Mom") to use the M in a creative way. Something like: "ost happily, John and Jane Jones will attend."
posted by TeacherRefPoet at 6:36 PM
2 Comments:
The bride, on the other hand, is not at all surprised, and should probably clue the groom in at some point that future weddings we attend with response cards similar to ours may quite well list my name first.
Al and I dropped ours in the mail last night. Sadly, We have no "M"s anywhere in our names to do anything fun with it. (sigh)
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