I'm not doing very well at getting in here and posting to this blog very often, but since this is mainly for my own sanity and if somebody happens to come across my ramblings than maybe/hopefully they can take a little something away from my experience.
Today I have a rant and this has been something that's agitated me for years. At first it was telemarketers calling to invite Kyle to various events - and since he would have been about the correct age for such events, I swallowed my tears long enough to inform the telemarketer that Kyle had passed away and please remove his name from whatever list it is that he is on. These calls still continued on for several years from various companies. Since then we've dropped the house phone BUT we continue to receive marketing mail for Kyle. Dare I also mention that we've moved? How is it that they can update our family address but NOT be aware that Kyle has passed away - and for that matter ... where did they get his name from anyway? Is this something the school sold or gave out? And before everyone goes getting all high and mighty on me and thinking that I'm just being oversensitive... Kyle has been deceased for 10 years now, I've made it a point to tell each and every single telemarketer or opened the mail to let the sender know that Kyle has passed on - so why is my deceased son receiving Discover card applications????
Seriously Discover Card? You honestly think they need credit cards in the afterlife? Don't bother blaming it on shoddy information you received from some unknown place either. As a credit card company I'd think it would behoove you to be sure that the credit card applications being sent out are to living people. No wonder credit card fraud is a major problem. This is the second application from a credit card company we've received in the past 6 months - and let's not forget the razor we received - compliments of Gillette. And oh yeah, we tried contacting them to let them know that Kyle had passed away and received a generic email back days later. They never even had the courtesy of trying to contact us personally to apologize for an error that had me in tears for hours.
OK, so I'm guessing this information is getting out through some listing through the school - because that's the only place that would have had Kyle's age, what would have been his graduation year, etc. so why is it that the school did not have his information removed from the listings when he died? Or updated the information so that parents aren't constantly reminded of their loss and the things that their child will never do. This particular Discover envelope has 'For College. For Life' on it... and those simple words break my heart. Kyle will never attend college... his life ended at 10 years old. Hell, he never even had a chance to learn to shave, date, attend a high school football game.... the last thing I need or want is some corporation sending crap to my house that only reminds me of everything I've lost. I'm angry, hurt and more than a little frustrated.
Am I being bitchy or oversensitive? I'm sure to some degree I am but you know with what would have been Kyle's 20th birthday coming up I'm not in the mood to sugar coat the facts or my feelings regarding the crap I've taken off everyone from family members, to the local school, right down to the companies looking to suck my kid into credit card debt. Losing a child is a nightmare and I expected a little support from the community in general - instead everyone acted like we should just pretend Kyle never existed and get on with life or 'oh he's at the right age for us to start sending marketing crap.' Not once has anyone besides my father had the foresight to remember Kyle's birthday and send me a 'thinking of you' card/email. I never forget Kyle's birthday and spend the day depressed and cry myself to sleep so knowing someone else remembers and is commiserating with me helps.
Alright, now that I have that out of my system, I'm off to deal with the Obamacare form since our crappy insurances have decided to dump us because they weren't up to the lofty Obamacare standards apparently. SNORT... they weren't even truly up to our standards but at least they were reasonably cheap - even if my husband's insurance didn't cover anything. Well, at least now we'll all be on one insurance plan - assuming I can get this huge form filled out - and that's not even actually applying for the insurance! That form is just to find out if we're eligible for the tax credit - then I'm guessing we have to jump through a bunch more hoops before we can actually get insurance.
I hate to admit it but I'm just annoyed in general and any little thing is going to set me off - lets just wait until the next mail delivery and see if I'm going to have to 'unleash the beast' and go off on some poor minimum wage telemarketer somewhere.
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