AegirJul 26, 2023

Reminded of the “Kurt Vonnegut goes to buy an envelope” quote. One of the best expressions of the joys of careful and deliberate inefficiency I’ve read.

Posted as image because the alt text has a higher character limit than a toot so I can paste the whole text as actual text there. Weird huh.

Show threadSheepnikJul 26, 2023
@aegir I'm always amused when I see this quote, because when I worked in a bookshop there was a chap who came in most days to buy a few loose envelopes (we sold them for 2p each.) He was a very strange chap, and I can't imagine him coming out with something like this.
Show threadAegir
@sheepnik I wonder what his story was. I hope he had a lot of pen pals. I’ve also had a few replies along the lines of “who sells loose envelopes?” so nice to hear of places that do (Our post office does too)
Jul 26, 2023 at 2:10pmWeb
Show threadSheepnikJul 26, 2023
@aegir I suspect he was the type to write letters in green ink to newspapers and local councils, rather than having lots of pen pals.
Show threadAegirJul 26, 2023
@sheepnik Ahhh!