How do you get a job as a Hallmark card writer?
I used to think it involved a healthy cheesy outlook of life coupled with a high tolerance for words like happy, love and best. You know, along the lines of “You are the best”, “Happy Anniversary” and “Love is like a piece of chocolate…”
How wrong I am. Hallmark has moved with the times. It’s now serving the MTV in-your-face generation that craves a (preferably politically incorrect) quip.
Case in point: I thought I found the perfect get well card for someone today. He loves his chihuahua and he’s recovering from an accident. The front of the card showed a chihuahua sitting on a hospital bed with one of those open-back hospital gowns. It was just way too cute. But when I opened the card, I found the words totally inappropriate.
“I hope your insurance covers more than this. Get well soon!”
Have I become one of those people I used to think were stuffy, old and devoid of a sense of humor? Or did this card cross a line?
Someone, anyone? Please tell me I’m still on the right side of 30 years old.
I guess that is what one might call Black Humor huh?
dun worry~ you are not on the wrong side of the fences.
just happened that ppl are more able to laugh in the face of mockery~