MDBCs 26 Dec 2023

‘Tis the season to exchange gifts. It is also the season to be grateful and thankful. So sit with a cup of hot chocolate and left overs from your Christmas dinner and say thank you.

Hand-written, Text or Email

Thank you notes are very simply notes and letters of appreciation and gratitude. Thank you notes are traditionally hand-written, though in recent years it is acceptable to send a thank you note through email or by text.

Thank you notes are usually sent in a variety of professional and social situations such as after a job interview or after receiving a wedding or a birthday gift.

How to Celebrate?

Hand write thank you notes. Be sincere and write from the heart. The recipients will appreciate having their efforts acknowledged.
If you can, why not add a small handmade gift for some of your recipients to thank them for their thoughtfulness?
If you don’t have the time, an email thank you note is better than sending no such note.

Did You Know...

...that the term thank is thought to come from the Old English word, þoncian meaning to reward?

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A therapist has a theory that couples who make love once a day are the happiest. So he tests it at a seminar by asking those assembled,

“How many people here make love once a day?” Half the people raise their hands, each of them grinning widely.

“Once a week?” A third of  the audience members raise their hands, their grins a bit less vibrant.

“Once a month?” A few hands tepidly go up.

Then he asks, “OK, how about once a year?” One man in the back jumps up and down, jubilantly waving his hands. The therapist is shocked—this disproves his theory.

“If you make love only once a year,” he asks, “why are you so happy?”

The man yells, “Today’s the day!”

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When my coworker answered his phone, the confused woman on the other end asked, “Who is this?”

“This is Steve. With whom did you wish to speak?”

After a pause: “Did you just say whom?”

“Yes, I did.”

The woman replied, “I have the wrong number,” and hung up.

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A Twitter exchange between an angry customer and an apologetic Domino’s Pizza:

Customer: Yoooo I ordered a Pizza  & Came with no Toppings on it or anything, Its Just Bread

Domino’s: We’re sorry to hear about this!

Customer (minutes later): Never mind, I opened the pizza upside down

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My friend called me in hysterics.

“I just saw a mouse in my kitchen!” she yelled. “I’m so grossed out! It’s  so disgusting!”

“What are you going to do?”  I asked.

“I’m not sure. But you can bet I’ll never eat the stuff I drop on the floor anymore.”

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A man boards a plane and is seated next to an Air Marshall and his ‘sniffing dog’. Soon, the plane takes off and the Marshall says, “Sniffer, search.” The dog walks along the aisle, and stops next to a woman. He then returns to his seat and puts a paw on the Marshall’s arm.

“Good boy,” says the Marshall.

“What happened?” asks the man.

“That woman is in possession of marijuana. We’ll arrest her when we land.”

Once again, Sniffer searches the aisles. He stops beside a man, then returns to his seat, and places two paws on the Marshall’s arm.

“That man is carrying cocaine,” the Marshall explains.

The dog walks up the aisle again, then races back, jumps into his seat, and poops all over it.

“What’s going on?!” demands the man.

The Marshall nervously replies, “He just found a bomb!”

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