Never had junk [snail] mail make me go 'whoa' before...

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until I got this "offer."

• A credit card with an annual fee of $495. That's what caught my eye and made me pull it out of the "to be shredded" pile. Who the hell would pay that as a fee just for holding a piece of plastic? Is access to 600 airport lounges so wonderful?
• What the heck does "made with carbon" mean? How does the presence of carbon give you the "ultimate buying tool," or its absence fill you with a sense of deprivation? And isn't carbon one of the elements that makes up most formulations of plastic anyways?
• I wish I'd saved the rest of the junk that came with this. I was also given the "opportunity" to apply to get a card for a "household member." That one had an annual fee of a mere $195/year. Such a bargain. Sign me up for two of those.
• Kind of funny...I had an "Aspie Moment" when I saw the "Limited Membership" bullet point. Jeez, I thought to myself, a fee like that and your membership isn't unlimited? Took me a bit to realize that what they meant was if you joined you would be a member of a group whose membership was limited in some way or other by Visa, blessing you with an elite status. Elite of what, I have no idea. (Idiots of all time if you pay that fee, perhaps?)

And there's also the fact that I haven't worked in five years, have no immediate employment prospects, and may ultimately have to go on SSDI. If it doesn't go bankrupt or I don't get rejected or whatever. Why in the wide, wide world of sports a credit card company would even send me something like this is something I'd very much like to find out. Stupidity on their part? A sense that I'm a sucker they can hook, whatever my financial situation? I mean, you'd think the one advantage of being poor and unemployed is NOT getting junk mail like this. And this is obviously aimed at someone wealthy.

Kind of pissed me off, too, since I did something I usually don't: perseverated. Or maybe it didn't rise to that level, since the whole thoughts on a hamster wheel thing did peter out after about 24 hours. But during that time, this crazy ad was definitely thought # 1 in what passes for my brain. I can laugh about it now, but definitely couldn't during that period.

Ah, well. Into the shredder it goes in about two seconds.