A disgruntled letter

spookymooky

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Tom’s Foods Inc.
Consumer Service Dept,
Columbus, GA
32902-0060

To Whom It May Concern:

I recently bough a snack-sized bag of Tom’s Mesquite Bar-B-Q Flavored Potato Chips from a vending machine at my high school. While I don’t normally indulge in vended foods, I had recently come across and unusual amount of pocket change and as I had previously sample, and enjoyed, the very same chips, I decided to purchase your confections for USD .55. I feel I must be completely honest with you, or else this letter would be subject to investigation for fraud, and (far worse in my opinion) I would no longer be able to consider myself a man of honor.

To begin with, I confess myself to have found your crisps quite tasty. In fact, it is likely that if ever I hunger for potato chips, and Tom’s are nearby, given that I have the require amount of monies, I will probably once again purchase, and enjoy your excellent foods in the future. The potato slices were fried to perfection, there was an appropriate amount of flavoring, and the taste was quite evidently mesquite barbecue sauce. The food was neither rotten nor moldy, nor were the chips overly crumbled. There was neither an excess of salt, nor a shortage of flavoring. The vegetable oil kept the chips moist enough to be palatable alone, but the taste was further improved with an accompanying beverage. I would like once again to emphasize that I found the your chips to be in any way lacking, rather I enjoyed them far more than I do many other brands and flavors of potato chips. Congratulations! And thank you.

However, I do not feel that I could fully thank you in any way less than that asked for specifically on the packaging. You asked me to request a refund with an explanation of why if, for any reason, I found myself not “completely satisfied” by your snack food. As enjoyable as the consumption of your chips was, I would be less than honest with you if I did not inform you of the ridiculous failing of your product in that regard.

Firstly, your chips did not entire satisfy me as a food product for a number of reasons. The Primary failing in this regard was that the serving of chips did not fill me up completely. In fact, it seemed to be largely composed of air, which, in and of itself, is not particularly filling. Within a few hours I was hungry enough to consume my normal portion of dinner. Secondly, the taste left something to be desired. I have tasted, in my life, more satisfying chocolates, to name only one food. I assure you, there are scores of dishes which I have tasted and, I can only imagine, hundreds more I haven’t that satisfy one’s taste buds much more thoroughly than these mesquite flavored Bar-B-Q chips. Tertiarily, I must say, these chips left my mouth just slightly parched. While these are sever lackings in your attempt to completely satisfy me, I have the unfortunate duty to report to you that even this is not all. There are far more areas of my life which aren’t completely satisfying, and to both my surprise and horror, your chips did nothing for them.

In addition to the severe culinary lacking of your chips, I found that your chips did nothing to aid me physically. In regards to my naturally outrageous good looks, which are already thoroughly satisfying in and of themselves, your product did nothing to actually aid my satisfaction. In fact, due to the high grease content of the chips, you’re product has probably aided in the formation of at least one pimple, which, as we all know, takes away from even divine beauty. As I am sure you can imagine, good looks come with a price: I tend to pity those unfortunate ones around me. Sadly, I must report that your product, though scrumptious, has done nothing to bring the level of beauty throughout the world to any level I would consider satisfying.

Also, I am sure you are aware of the amount of suffering in the world that transcends even that caused by poor aesthetics. Around the globe, millions live in poverty and pain. Children die in their mothers arms. Mothers die in their husbands arms. Even more die all alone, wallowing in slums and terrible conditions throughout the earth. Wars wage and innocents lose their lives, caught in the crossfire between soldiers and gang members, who don’t deserve death either, fighting with knives, guns, rockets, missiles, planes, ships, bombs, and even nuclear devices. How many untold thousands lost their lives to two bombs, containing less than a gram combined of plutonium in the Japanese hamlets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? How many millions starve each year because pompous, arrogant, elitist, capitalistic swine sit on their laurels and drown in their own excess? How many billions suffer at the hands of their neighbors, who either take advantage of their situation, or deal out needless pain? And why, why oh why did your potato chip do nothing to stop it? Here I sit, presented with a package of potato chips which promises, quite clearly to leave me “completely satisfied”, but where lies this prophesied satisfaction? In the hands of the poor? No! The downtrodden? No! The underpaid and starving? No! I must inform you, even if it involves screaming from the rooftops, that your tasty confection has done nothing to aid the miserable plight of the shared community we call humanity, throughout the globe, from pole to pole, yellow, black, and white, even if I must call man, in all his shapes and sizes to link hands and march against oppression and hate, even if I must sacrifice my life, property, and sacred honor to give you this message: you chip has not satisfied me one iota!

Also, I was not completely satisfied sexually by your chips either, but I will live that where it lies.
Thank your for your time, I hope I was helpful in improving your product, and would be pleased to hear of improvement in any of the aforementioned categories. Especially that final one. In fact, communication via and unmarked package would probably be the preferable method of informing me if you have any clever innovations in that regard. I eagerly await your swift response.


Sincerely,
Spookymooky

I'm going to soon send this, any edits or revisions?
 
Ummmm sorry if it's offensive but i think that was a complete waste of time and will achieve about as much as having a shit with your trousers still on.
 
It's obviously supposed to be funny that he wasted that much time.

-_-

Yeesh.

Edit: Ooh, I think I've got it. It's a paper he had to write for school. I had to do something like this too.
 
ah well, we all miss the funny sometimes.

:sheepish:

Edit: nope, though hopfully I'll be able to use it for "Living in justice and peace"...stinking catholic school...
 
been reading letters from a nut have we
 
I sent a letter to AXE and told them that I put too much deodorant on and was mobbed by beautiful women. Then sent me a few coupons for free axe :D
 
Oops, this might be a mistake:

"but I will live that where it lies"

Should 'live' not be 'leave'?

Oh and btw, I was laughing so hard it became difficult to read on the last paragraph :LOL:
 
vegeta897 said:
It's obviously supposed to be funny that he wasted that much time.

-_-

Yeesh.

Edit: Ooh, I think I've got it. It's a paper he had to write for school. I had to do something like this too.
Man, i went to town with those type of things.
I can remember "freaking out" my teachers with some of them, writing REALLY heavy stuff that would interest them and worry them at the same time.
I pwnd religious education, sciences and english papers.
In physics once we had to do research on a different subject each, mine was space travel i went into a 45 page essay on it....absolute joke in real detail, even included a complete layout for a intersolar ship.
Everyone else did like a page, i wasted my time :)
 
spookymooky said:
Tom’s Foods Inc.
Consumer Service Dept,
Columbus, GA
32902-0060

To Whom It May Concern:......................


/me stands up clapping maniacally


YES YES YES!!!







I want some chips
 
I like to write short stories for this english paper we get every week in which we have to use the ten given vocabulary words somehow.

I get nice little notes and compliments on my paper. I'm not really too great a writer but much better than all the kids in my class that don't give a crap.
 
short recoil said:
Man, i went to town with those type of things.
I can remember "freaking out" my teachers with some of them, writing REALLY heavy stuff that would interest them and worry them at the same time.
I pwnd religious education, sciences and english papers.
In physics once we had to do research on a different subject each, mine was space travel i went into a 45 page essay on it....absolute joke in real detail, even included a complete layout for a intersolar ship.
Everyone else did like a page, i wasted my time :)
Yup, I failed morality because I enjoyed writing long sarcastic arguments, such as "why murder is A-Ok, an argument in theoretical morality".

Dumb? yes.

Better than turning in the expected 3 sentence "reflection"? yes.
 
vegeta897 said:
I like to write short stories for this english paper we get every week in which we have to use the ten given vocabulary words somehow.

laparoscopic colon resection surgery severe pain happy joyful friends love


...and begin ..........now! :rolling:
 
take away the highschool reference and you'll get more credence
 
I began reading, then i learned it was about chips...... then i stopped.
 
spookymooky said:
Says the guy from potatoville...
ROFL. Irony x 10

And Stern, I'd much rather have Sulkdodds do that. He's the best writer his age I know.
 
spookymooky said:
Says the guy from potatoville...
that's idaho :rolleyes:


edit: btw, here:
tomspcmbbq8hm.jpg
 
Also, I was not completely satisfied sexually by your chips either, but I will live that where it lies.

As Veg said, needs to be 'leave that where it lies'. :p

Thank your for your time, I hope I was helpful in improving your product, and would be pleased to hear of improvement in any of the aforementioned categories. Especially that final one. In fact, communication via and unmarked package would probably be the preferable method of informing me if you have any clever innovations in that regard. I eagerly await your swift response.

No 'D' in 'an' + comma in that context as opposed to ; . - or : (. would be best I think) is EVIL SINGULARITY ENGLISH. Other than that I thought it was hilarious. :LOL:

Also, thanks Veg. <3
 
Dan said:
take away the highschool reference and you'll get more credence

Credence? Companies don't give a shit what you say - I wrote to cadburys telling them my son (who doesn't exist) has too big a face for the mask they put on the box of animal biscuits and that the monkey it depicted looked like a lion with a poorly drawn side parting, and I got lots of free animal biscuits.

I wrote to a marshmallow company about the same 'son' who became friends with a small marshmallow in the bag because all the others bullied him. I sent the marshmallow back and said that my son wanted him to be made big and strong. They sent me 6 packets of marshmallows.

TOOT TOOT
 
I thought it was hilarious... just proofread it, you've got a few typos, and I'm too lazy to go back and spot them for you.
 
Funny story. I wish I could come up with outlandish things like that. I was always very serious in school and told things accurately. I wasn't very fun. ):
 
OvA said:
I sent a letter to AXE and told them that I put too much deodorant on and was mobbed by beautiful women. Then sent me a few coupons for free axe :D
LYNX :sniper:

I want some crisps now :(

short recoil said:
In physics once we had to do research on a different subject each, mine was space travel i went into a 45 page essay on it....absolute joke in real detail, even included a complete layout for a intersolar ship.
Everyone else did like a page, i wasted my time :)
Wtf..... 45 pages......? :|

Somehow i dont believe that... did you type it all or was some copy/pasted?
 
Oh how I laughed, excellant letter, send it!

I rather enjoy doing things like that.

I sit on the local youth council, and we created an agreed template for agendas for future meetings, I was assigned to right it up so it could go on the wall. In a format similar to this
1: food
2:Open meeting
3:porject work
ect.
Instead I did this.




1) It is hereby decreed that old town of Burnley doth permit a counselling of youth.

2) All counselling’s shall follow the adopted plan, of which was agreed January 12th 2006, with the unanimous agreement of all those present.
i) The meeting shalt start officially at the time of 7pm, but pre-meeting work shalt commence at 6:30.

ii) At 7pm the meetings officials shalt be elected by the group.
a)This election shalt be presided by the chair of the previous week.
b)The sanity and the absence clauses can however be passed and his reign revoked for the election of the officials.
c) The official roles for election shall be the chair, whom is responsible to maintain order and to run the meeting. No-one shalt talk without the permission of the chair, unless erecting a clause against him or a point of order.
d) A Deputy chair shall also be elected whom will be responsible for minute taking, and enforcing the chair sticks to the constitution.
e) The is no limit on the reign of the officials, as long as any other clause is not breeched.

iii) At 7:05 previously agreed ‘project work’ shall be worked upon.
a)[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]A new project can be adopted if it is agreed by more than 75% of those present. The vote shall be taken as an Agenda item in the ‘Any Other Business slot.
b)[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]During project work, the chair may allow the meeting to grow more informal and give more freedom to the group at his/her own discretion.

iv) At 20:05 project work shalt be stopped by the chair and a 10 minute recess shall commence, the chair has no power during this time, except to recommence the meeting.

v) At 20:15 any other items of business will be discussed
a) The items for discussion will be decided at the previous meeting.
b) If time allows the agenda may be added to, and edited in the pre-meeting organisation period.
1. Previously agreed agenda items shalt have priority, unless it is unanimously agreed otherwise.
c) Items for discussion can be anything the group sees as relevant.
1.If the agenda item is added in the pre-meeting time, then the chair reserves the power to veto that agenda item if he sees it fit to do so, in the interests of the council. This can only be overturned by a motion of sanity, or of no confidence in the chair.


vi) At 20:50 there will be a summary of the meeting, and agenda points shall be set for the next meeting
a)[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]The summanry shall consist of the deputy chair reading out the minutes. This can be skipped, only be unanimous agreement in the form of a resolution.
b)[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]The chair has no veto power over what goes on the agenda of the next meeting in this timeslot.

vii) The meeting shall be adjourned at 9pm, it is the chairs responsibility to ensure this.




A few indents have gone wrong c&ping and I havnet finished it yet, but it was a good hour or so none the less.
 
spookymooky said:
Tom’s Foods Inc.
Consumer Service Dept,
Columbus, GA
32902-0060

To Whom It May Concern:

I recently bough a snack-sized bag of Tom’s Mesquite Bar-B-Q Flavored Potato Chips from a vending machine at my high school. While I don’t normally indulge in vended foods, I had recently come across and unusual amount of pocket change and as I had previously sample, and enjoyed, the very same chips, I decided to purchase your confections for USD .55. I feel I must be completely honest with you, or else this letter would be subject to investigation for fraud, and (far worse in my opinion) I would no longer be able to consider myself a man of honor.

To begin with, I confess myself to have found your crisps quite tasty. In fact, it is likely that if ever I hunger for potato chips, and Tom’s are nearby, given that I have the require amount of monies, I will probably once again purchase, and enjoy your excellent foods in the future. The potato slices were fried to perfection, there was an appropriate amount of flavoring, and the taste was quite evidently mesquite barbecue sauce. The food was neither rotten nor moldy, nor were the chips overly crumbled. There was neither an excess of salt, nor a shortage of flavoring. The vegetable oil kept the chips moist enough to be palatable alone, but the taste was further improved with an accompanying beverage. I would like once again to emphasize that I found the your chips to be in any way lacking, rather I enjoyed them far more than I do many other brands and flavors of potato chips. Congratulations! And thank you.

However, I do not feel that I could fully thank you in any way less than that asked for specifically on the packaging. You asked me to request a refund with an explanation of why if, for any reason, I found myself not “completely satisfied” by your snack food. As enjoyable as the consumption of your chips was, I would be less than honest with you if I did not inform you of the ridiculous failing of your product in that regard.

Firstly, your chips did not entire satisfy me as a food product for a number of reasons. The Primary failing in this regard was that the serving of chips did not fill me up completely. In fact, it seemed to be largely composed of air, which, in and of itself, is not particularly filling. Within a few hours I was hungry enough to consume my normal portion of dinner. Secondly, the taste left something to be desired. I have tasted, in my life, more satisfying chocolates, to name only one food. I assure you, there are scores of dishes which I have tasted and, I can only imagine, hundreds more I haven’t that satisfy one’s taste buds much more thoroughly than these mesquite flavored Bar-B-Q chips. Tertiarily, I must say, these chips left my mouth just slightly parched. While these are sever lackings in your attempt to completely satisfy me, I have the unfortunate duty to report to you that even this is not all. There are far more areas of my life which aren’t completely satisfying, and to both my surprise and horror, your chips did nothing for them.

In addition to the severe culinary lacking of your chips, I found that your chips did nothing to aid me physically. In regards to my naturally outrageous good looks, which are already thoroughly satisfying in and of themselves, your product did nothing to actually aid my satisfaction. In fact, due to the high grease content of the chips, you’re product has probably aided in the formation of at least one pimple, which, as we all know, takes away from even divine beauty. As I am sure you can imagine, good looks come with a price: I tend to pity those unfortunate ones around me. Sadly, I must report that your product, though scrumptious, has done nothing to bring the level of beauty throughout the world to any level I would consider satisfying.

Also, I am sure you are aware of the amount of suffering in the world that transcends even that caused by poor aesthetics. Around the globe, millions live in poverty and pain. Children die in their mothers arms. Mothers die in their husbands arms. Even more die all alone, wallowing in slums and terrible conditions throughout the earth. Wars wage and innocents lose their lives, caught in the crossfire between soldiers and gang members, who don’t deserve death either, fighting with knives, guns, rockets, missiles, planes, ships, bombs, and even nuclear devices. How many untold thousands lost their lives to two bombs, containing less than a gram combined of plutonium in the Japanese hamlets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? How many millions starve each year because pompous, arrogant, elitist, capitalistic swine sit on their laurels and drown in their own excess? How many billions suffer at the hands of their neighbors, who either take advantage of their situation, or deal out needless pain? And why, why oh why did your potato chip do nothing to stop it? Here I sit, presented with a package of potato chips which promises, quite clearly to leave me “completely satisfied”, but where lies this prophesied satisfaction? In the hands of the poor? No! The downtrodden? No! The underpaid and starving? No! I must inform you, even if it involves screaming from the rooftops, that your tasty confection has done nothing to aid the miserable plight of the shared community we call humanity, throughout the globe, from pole to pole, yellow, black, and white, even if I must call man, in all his shapes and sizes to link hands and march against oppression and hate, even if I must sacrifice my life, property, and sacred honor to give you this message: you chip has not satisfied me one iota!

Also, I was not completely satisfied sexually by your chips either, but I will live that where it lies.
Thank your for your time, I hope I was helpful in improving your product, and would be pleased to hear of improvement in any of the aforementioned categories. Especially that final one. In fact, communication via and unmarked package would probably be the preferable method of informing me if you have any clever innovations in that regard. I eagerly await your swift response.


Sincerely,
Spookymooky

I'm going to soon send this, any edits or revisions?

The letter is not particularly well written and not particularly funny either. It's probably going to be read only by a high school dropout anyway. The entire letter is a waste of time, but you get an A for your effort to sound smart :)
 
Im sorry, the awesomeness of that massive letter you quoted taking up so much space drowned out what you said, thus rendering youre post redundant, please try again.
 
Lou said:
This post is not particularly well written and not particularly funny either. It's probably going to be written by a high school dropout anyway. The entire post is a waste of time, but I get an F for quoting the first post in it's entirety.:)
Fixed. :)
 
Que-Ever said:
that's idaho :rolleyes:


edit: btw, here:
tomspcmbbq8hm.jpg
Vive la revolucion! (no idea how that is spelt).

Well, Lou, I must say, I have been thoroughly put in my place. I heartily apologize for any offense I have given you. I apologize for wasting your time which otherwise would have been well spent on this gaming forum. And most of all, I wish that one of your 42 posts had not been wasted on the critique of so lowly a piece of work. I hope I didn't significantly lower the quality of your future writing.
 
spookymooky said:
Vive la revolucion! (no idea how that is spelt).

Well, Lou, I must say, I have been thoroughly put in my place. I heartily apologize for any offense I have given you. I apologize for wasting your time which otherwise would have been well spent on this gaming forum. And most of all, I wish that one of your 42 posts had not been wasted on the critique of so lowly a piece of work. I hope I didn't significantly lower the quality of your future writing.

You write much better than I do (and you are only a high school student) but you just seemed to be trying too hard to sound smart and funny. That's my critique. But I wish I could write half as well as you do.
 
Lou said:
You write much better than I do (and you are only a high school student) but you just seemed to be trying too hard to sound smart and funny. That's my critique. But I wish I could write half as well as you do.
Cool, no offense taken then. I just read your post as a complete burn.
:afro:
 
I liked it. I'm a satirist by design, though, so I may be an unfair judge.

If you plan to write more, please don't use a gerund if there's a noun with the same definition (see failing->failure). Peeve of mine. :D
 
you have obviously not taken english comp otherwise you would have realized that about 83% of your 'short novel' can be deleted. You are WAY too wordy.
 
xcellerate said:
you have obviously not taken english comp otherwise you would have realized that about 83% of your 'short novel' can be deleted. You are WAY too wordy.
Perhaps it's there on purpose.
 
Raeven0 said:
I liked it. I'm a satirist by design, though, so I may be an unfair judge.

If you plan to write more, please don't use a gerund if there's a noun with the same definition (see failing->failure). Peeve of mine. :D
Yeah, I have a few habits like that. I tend to use the perfect tense with a passive mood "having been hit" for example, the infinitive "to hit", and the word "which". Taking latin will do that to you after a while. It enhances your vocab and massively increases your ability to read and write complex sentences, but because the emphasis is on translating classics, in my case, Cicero, Caesar, Ovid, Virgil, Catullus, Horace (in order of enjoyment), you end up catching a few of their quirks.

I'm taking classical Greek now. Interestingly, the languages are quite similiar. There is just as much emphasis on military terminology, as well as complex sentences. The main difference is, while I once considered latin to be (see!) very specific with its 5 declensions of 5 cases each and all its conjugations and pronouns, Greek is much worse in that regard. Every word requires a meticulously placed accent, for instance. Another interesting thing about Greek is the emphasis on prefixes. A single word can have a string of quite of few, and this makes it very difficult to find the root.
 
short recoil said:
Ummmm sorry if it's offensive but i think that was a complete waste of time and will achieve about as much as having a shit with your trousers still on.
Yeah thats pretty much it. I mean think about it, there really is no other possible solution.:O
 
spooky, I enjoyed your letter immensely, although I found the paragraph concerning the children starving a little over the top. It just seemed too excessive. I loved the rest of it though. if you write other letters, please post. I had a good laugh. brilliant description of the flavorable chips.
 
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