Lowering Of Standards

This is classic. Like the great squirrel story, or Lewis The Cat, I could not make this up.

The other day I get home from work to find some unsolicited crap hanging from the door knob. Here is the ACTUAL TEXT, unmodified by me.

Dear Home Owner:

How the real estate market is today I still have a ready qualified buyer for your property. I am mortgage broker, that is why I am asking you with all respect if you want to sell your property please call Janett Benedict at (786) 210-8403. Don't wait to long the market will worst! 1st Choice Realty Group. Thank you.

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The note looks like it is a photocopy of a real handwritten note. It was written with a felt tip pen, and the ink has not bled through the paper. Stapled to the note is a business card.

Now I am not some sort of grammar expert / language nazi, but in this case I will make an exception.

This note is VERY POORLY written. I am mortgage broker?!?!? Hell, I Tarzan! So there! Me Tarzan, you mortgage broker. The market will worst??? The market will worst what??!

By the way, that number is real, as it is on the note and the business card. It is a cell phone number. SPAMMERS TAKE NOTE! Spammers should also snag this email address: jbenedict@1stcl.net
The fax number is (786) 272-0045. All junk faxes are welcome!
The office number is (305) 500-5595

How this person managed to become a mortgage broker / associate will remain a mystery to me. It seems that standards are VERY LOW at this firm. They would hire one of my cats if they would hire a twit who can not even write a simple note.

And ANYONE who would use this person, or this firm, for their mortgage broker needs deserves whatever they get. How can someone who can not write a few simple sentences possibly understand stuff like 30 year adjustable rate mortgages?

Standards are at an all time LOW in America. And I see no evidence that anyone has a problem with this. Hell look at who was elected for President - twice. Can not form a sentence? NO PROBLEM! It seems nobody else can either.

And those of us who can still use proper grammar, read and understand anything more complex than "The Bernstein Bears" books, or do math are written off as "Ivy Tower elitist" who are out of touch with mainstream America.

I am starting to think they are right. Maybe anyone with an education beyond the 8th grade IS out of touch with the mainstream.