[Boomer]

Oprah is out to get me.

Yes, Oprah.

A year ago I spent ten bucks on a subscription. (It's such a pretty and slick publication. I just could not resist.)

I paid my ten bucks by check.

The subscription expired. I don't want it anymore.

A couple of weeks ago, I got a quite hateful renewal notice saying that I had agreed to subscribe forever or give them my firstborn child or some such thing.

I wrote, "DID NOT AGREE. CANCEL." across the letter and mailed it back.

We shall see what happens.

Do you think there could be a pattern here?

Hey, they probably have our demographic and figure it's open season on the geezers who are used to paying their bills.

This is kind of funny because when I first received the hate mail, I thought about asking this same question on TOTV, but I didn't. I'm glad somebody did. It's interesting to see that a lot of us are getting hit.

Magazine subscriptions have to be feeling the influence of the internet. Maybe they have turned their subscription departments over to Tony Soprano.