The_Boaphile
12-07-2008, 04:58 PM
Does this drive anyone else nuts?
I get email. I get a lot of email. I get email from people asking about tons of stuff. Animals, cages, other Boa breeders, genetics… it just goes on and on. What never ceases to amaze me is the number of people who send an email, sometimes a lengthy email that would require a lot of my time to completely answer. Emails with questions. Questions such as:
- Questions about health issues they are having with animals they bought from someone else.
- Questions about genetics regarding animals they bought from someone else.
- Questions about husbandry regarding animals they bought from someone else.
- Questions about breeding animals they bought from someone else.
It’s proper to call your supplier for questions about products you bought from them. You bought a Ford from the Ford dealer? Do you ask the Doge guy to fix your Ford or answer you Ford questions? Of course not, but herpers buy whatever from wherever and then expect to get answers from somebody they didn’t take their business too. But! That isn’t what drives me crazier than anything else….
They email me. People do not have the slightest idea how to write a letter. None. A letter starts out with some sort of greeting. Sometimes that greeting is as simple as just the person’s name that you are sending the email to. Simple enough right? Apparently not. Then you have the letter itself. Everyone seems to be able to do that, even if sometimes there is a complete lack of any punctuation. Then there are those that have decided it’s better to capitalize everything rather than have the agony of a capital letter here or there. It’s really a bother to many folks. But! Is that what drives me crazier than anything else? No. I’m not going to complain about grammar because anyone that ever reads my dribble knows that I have more than enough trouble with my own grammar. I didn’t mention speeling either. Were it not for spell check, I’d reveal myself to be the imbecile I really am.
The one thing that drives me crazier than anything else is this; Where is your signature? Or for those who have no idea what that word means; Who are you, letter writer?
Why is that so complicated? I have never ever in my life ever written anything to anyone where I did not include my name on it. OK, I text my daughter without signing it “Daddy” each time. But she knows a text from me is from me. Her phone has my name on each of my messages.
I don’t know who everyone in the planet is based on their email address. I get emails from people. Sometimes people who I know, that don’t sign their email. They think I know who they are based on the email address. I do if the email address has their name in it, but it seems that most people have decided not to include this tiny detail. But it seems that the majority of people do not include their name in email. I don’t get that. I’ll never get that. There just is absolutely no reason not to complete an email with your name at the end. None. Zero nadda.
For the life of me, I’ll never understand how someone will send an email who is trying to negotiate some transaction that involves their hard earned money. Sometimes a great deal of money, and yet, they do not include their name! No wonder my hair all fell out!
And one last thing. Your name, unless you are named Uriah, and I only know one Uriah, your correspondence should not be signed, “Tom”. It should be “Tom Jones” or “Jeff Ronne”, or “Mortimer Snerd” for Pete’s sake. (No Pete in particular by they way.)
It’s simple really. Just include your name with your correspondence. It’s just considerate to the person you are emailing. Plus think of the sanity of the recipient of your email. You need to consider the frail line they walk and they try to maintain some semblance of sanity.
Thank you,
Jeff Ronne Sr.
Yes, 100% Jeff Ronne Sr
I get email. I get a lot of email. I get email from people asking about tons of stuff. Animals, cages, other Boa breeders, genetics… it just goes on and on. What never ceases to amaze me is the number of people who send an email, sometimes a lengthy email that would require a lot of my time to completely answer. Emails with questions. Questions such as:
- Questions about health issues they are having with animals they bought from someone else.
- Questions about genetics regarding animals they bought from someone else.
- Questions about husbandry regarding animals they bought from someone else.
- Questions about breeding animals they bought from someone else.
It’s proper to call your supplier for questions about products you bought from them. You bought a Ford from the Ford dealer? Do you ask the Doge guy to fix your Ford or answer you Ford questions? Of course not, but herpers buy whatever from wherever and then expect to get answers from somebody they didn’t take their business too. But! That isn’t what drives me crazier than anything else….
They email me. People do not have the slightest idea how to write a letter. None. A letter starts out with some sort of greeting. Sometimes that greeting is as simple as just the person’s name that you are sending the email to. Simple enough right? Apparently not. Then you have the letter itself. Everyone seems to be able to do that, even if sometimes there is a complete lack of any punctuation. Then there are those that have decided it’s better to capitalize everything rather than have the agony of a capital letter here or there. It’s really a bother to many folks. But! Is that what drives me crazier than anything else? No. I’m not going to complain about grammar because anyone that ever reads my dribble knows that I have more than enough trouble with my own grammar. I didn’t mention speeling either. Were it not for spell check, I’d reveal myself to be the imbecile I really am.
The one thing that drives me crazier than anything else is this; Where is your signature? Or for those who have no idea what that word means; Who are you, letter writer?
Why is that so complicated? I have never ever in my life ever written anything to anyone where I did not include my name on it. OK, I text my daughter without signing it “Daddy” each time. But she knows a text from me is from me. Her phone has my name on each of my messages.
I don’t know who everyone in the planet is based on their email address. I get emails from people. Sometimes people who I know, that don’t sign their email. They think I know who they are based on the email address. I do if the email address has their name in it, but it seems that most people have decided not to include this tiny detail. But it seems that the majority of people do not include their name in email. I don’t get that. I’ll never get that. There just is absolutely no reason not to complete an email with your name at the end. None. Zero nadda.
For the life of me, I’ll never understand how someone will send an email who is trying to negotiate some transaction that involves their hard earned money. Sometimes a great deal of money, and yet, they do not include their name! No wonder my hair all fell out!
And one last thing. Your name, unless you are named Uriah, and I only know one Uriah, your correspondence should not be signed, “Tom”. It should be “Tom Jones” or “Jeff Ronne”, or “Mortimer Snerd” for Pete’s sake. (No Pete in particular by they way.)
It’s simple really. Just include your name with your correspondence. It’s just considerate to the person you are emailing. Plus think of the sanity of the recipient of your email. You need to consider the frail line they walk and they try to maintain some semblance of sanity.
Thank you,
Jeff Ronne Sr.
Yes, 100% Jeff Ronne Sr