Dear President Obama,
After only two months of working in an office, I have come to recognize a threat to our economy and wanted to alert you as soon as possible.
We are wasting millions of gallons of ink, toner and electricity by needlessly including the following phrase in our emails and printed correspondence:
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Sometimes this sentence appears in a slightly different form:
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Mister President, can you please enact legislation to annihilate this saying in all its variations from the English language?
Not only will this save the country billions of dollars in resources, it will also serve to remove one more source of annoyance as I go about my work day.
Your citizen,
Steve
ps. For the benefit of some of the more dimwitted members of Congress, you might point out that these words, though unspoken, are always implied. If ever there is an exception, then the following phrase could be used freely:
Don't ask me any questions about this.
or
No further questions at this time.
Thank you.
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Ha ha ha... I totally use those lines all the time when I send out information/quote letters.
ReplyDeleteSunny~ please, you must cease immediately. The planet is dying!
ReplyDeleteHa, Ha! This works in well with my frustration with Spanish. In English you simply say "we" or "us". In Spanish, it's "nosotros"? Really? Do we need THAT many letters to describe such a simple concept? Now, I am on a mission to reduce all words in all languages to the fewest amount of letters possible to increase the amount of information we can convey in the shortest amount of time. With my new rules, the above paragraph could be reduced to one line.
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