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So, while I was in LA for my legal sojourn, I tried to change the address to as many recurring mailed items as possible, to our new PO box in Bellevue. You know, bills, magazines, etc.
Foreign Affairs was kind of far down my list. So I already had a patter ready to go...
"Hello, Foreign Affairs, may I help you?"
"Yes... I'd like to request a change of address, please."
"Yes, sir, of course. Is this a permanent, or a seasonal change of address?"
{beat}
A... seasonal... change of address? Oh, yeah, sure, I'm going to summer in the Hamptons, along with Rather and Kissinger and Rose, you schmuck, whaddaya think?
"Umm... Permanent, I think."
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Still, it must be said that being a subscriber to the magazine with probably the most haute snoote list in Amurrica has its bennies. I keep getting offers from other magazines to subscribe at "Professional Rates". I have no idea what profession Time and the New Yorker think I practice that make $.50/issue a good idea to them... But I'm willing to take them up on it. (For the New Yorker, at least. Time just showed up the other day, and being unemployed I'm trying to manage cash flow...)
So, while I was in LA for my legal sojourn, I tried to change the address to as many recurring mailed items as possible, to our new PO box in Bellevue. You know, bills, magazines, etc.
Foreign Affairs was kind of far down my list. So I already had a patter ready to go...
"Hello, Foreign Affairs, may I help you?"
"Yes... I'd like to request a change of address, please."
"Yes, sir, of course. Is this a permanent, or a seasonal change of address?"
{beat}
A... seasonal... change of address? Oh, yeah, sure, I'm going to summer in the Hamptons, along with Rather and Kissinger and Rose, you schmuck, whaddaya think?
"Umm... Permanent, I think."
*^*^*
Still, it must be said that being a subscriber to the magazine with probably the most haute snoote list in Amurrica has its bennies. I keep getting offers from other magazines to subscribe at "Professional Rates". I have no idea what profession Time and the New Yorker think I practice that make $.50/issue a good idea to them... But I'm willing to take them up on it. (For the New Yorker, at least. Time just showed up the other day, and being unemployed I'm trying to manage cash flow...)
