My parents are sheltered, technophobic people. As such, they have grasped only little bits of The Internet, and the one thing they've really clawed onto are electronic greeting cards. For Christmas, Easter, St Patrick's day, all birthdays, Professional Plumbers' Day... honestly, every holiday Hallmark has ever seen a £ in.
Thing is, they use a company to send them that lets them know if I have opened the card. If I don't open it, I am sent reminders. If I still don't open it, my father phones to demand to know why I haven't opened that card... If I lie and say I did open them, he produces evidence from the company that I have not.
The cards are always the same, some little song and graphic video, with a one-line greeting at the end from my parents. They do not vary. If they'd just send me an email that says 'happy XXX day', that would be fine! I'd read and reply.
I know this is petty, but what an outrageous concept, to send someone a unwanted gift, which demands to opened and threatens to tell your Mum and Dad if you don't do as it says.
Has anyone else experienced similar harassment? Is it just my parents?
And don't tell me to just open them. I am by now opposed on principle.
Humph.