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   Hello Bob!   
      
   ** On Friday 22.01.21 - 14:46, Bob Roberts wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    BR> Are you often the recipient of singing telegrams?  It must   
    BR> have happened at least once if this was even a   
    BR> possibility...   
      
   Not often.  I would not really expect one delivered to my rural     
   town.  But I am totally familiar with the service - I even     
   considered participating in that business (for some fun and     
   extra cash) at one time when I lived in a city.  That could have     
   lead to a kind of strip-telegram, but I digress.  :D   
      
      
    BR> .. A person, claiming to be deaf, will hand out cards   
    BR> indicating their are deaf and soliciting a donation.   
    BR> Sometimes it will be accompanied by an item which you can   
    BR> keep if you donate.  It's most often a small package of   
    BR> tissues.  They will start at one end of the car, hand out   
    BR> all their cards and tissue, then go back and pick up the   
    BR> tissue, and/or donations left.   
      
   Yes, they prey on one's guilty feelings.   
      
   At those times I imagined that all they needed as a     
   reciprocating "card" handed back to them, telling them how     
   pathetic their attempts are.   
      
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