Greeting Card
I got a greeting card in the mail today. It's from the girl I started seeing a few weeks ago. The cover doesn't bode well... There's always a certain feeling of anticipation and also worry when you get a card that's not associated with a holiday or personal milestone. If it's your birthday you expect to get a few cards, same thing around Christmas or perhaps St Valentine's Day. But a card that arrives in the void betwixt days like that--well it could be trouble. "My life was just fine until you came along..." That's not a line to inspire confidence, y'know? This card from the Chipolte Girl made me curious about the entire greeting card industry so I wandered around the web for more information, getting most of it on Wiki . After all, an industry that only made money on birthdays and a few holidays probably wouldn't stay in business long. So how do they sell all those cards? As it turns out, According to Wiki , the greeting card industry re...