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Le R. Mère refused to relinquish custody of our first query unless we agreed to publish this item concomitantly, which we present to you without comment, other than to say apparently we were on a roll that day, and that this missive did not secure us an appointment with the president.

Dear Mr. Reagan,

I am going to Washington D.C. I will be there for three days, March 25th thru 28th. I want to see the White House. I am 7 1/2. I like you very much.

Wishing you well,

[The Rejectionist]

[Address]

p.s. My Mommy and Daddy always vote Republican!

Sarah W said...

I got nothin' . . .

August 31, 2010 9:04 AM
Lydia Sharp said...

Priceless. I bet you were a cute kid.

August 31, 2010 9:12 AM
Mesmerix said...

The PS is my favorite. I love irony.

August 31, 2010 9:13 AM
cow said...

Oh that's priceless.

I helped lead my elementary school's Perot for President team in 1992. I...have no good defence for this.

August 31, 2010 9:48 AM
J. A. Platt said...

Awwww. And in cursive too!

I have a weird nostalgic soft spot for Reagan because I learned my first big word from him. Redundant. Once I knew what it meant I was proud to use it constantly.

August 31, 2010 10:14 AM
Laurel said...

Weeping. Sobbing, hiccuping gales of laughter.

August 31, 2010 10:32 AM
maine character said...

Le R. Mère is a shrewd bargainer.

Would she consider being my agent?

August 31, 2010 12:41 PM
Marsha Sigman said...

Ok, that's awesome. At 7 1/2 most kids are only writing to Santa.
That you even knew who was president is huge!lol

August 31, 2010 1:09 PM
triceratophat (Em) said...

Okay, now I see where this is going.

August 31, 2010 1:53 PM
Sam Hranac said...

I wrote a flaming diatribe of vomit soup to him at the same time. He sent me back a signed picture of him and Nancy. I kept it for as long as I could, but a drunken dart tournament reduced it to confetti.

Do we have the right to check out FBI file in this country? I would love to see that letter again.

August 31, 2010 2:47 PM
Tahereh said...

i feel like i should hug you and never let go.

August 31, 2010 3:01 PM
Joseph L. Selby said...

con·com·i·tant (kn-km-tnt)
adj.
Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant

(Just, you know, fyi and stuff.)

August 31, 2010 3:18 PM
CKHB said...

Dude. So were you as annoyed as I was when Samantha Smith got to go to Russia because she wrote to Yuri Andropov? SO MANY of us wrote to our own President and didn't get so much as a letter in return, let along a trip to D.C., and she gets a trip to RUSSIA?

W.T.F.

Also, my 2nd grade class voted to re-elect Carter. That is all.

August 31, 2010 5:40 PM
Sam Hranac said...

My class voted in Gus Hall (Communist party) just for a change up.

August 31, 2010 5:53 PM
Jan Markley said...

So, how did the meeting go?!

August 31, 2010 10:39 PM
Loretta Ross said...

Triceratophat, that's priceless! But, um, shouldn't the contents of that jar on the steps be, uh, trickling down? :-/
;)

September 1, 2010 12:26 AM
Alison Stevens said...

Love the P.S.!

My class voted in Reagan. Wonder what the world would be like if Carter had been reelected.

September 1, 2010 5:10 AM
olugbemisola said...

these posts! are gifts! i am not sure that i can take this much amazing. (but i can definitely take a signed copy of THE MYSTERY OF THE GROWLING DOG.)

September 1, 2010 6:00 AM
Fanfreakingtastic Flower said...

Le R! Le R! I have spent the week in the city of our birth, and have missed your wit!

Also - my husband also wrote a letter to Reagan.

I wrote a blog post about it last March.

September 1, 2010 8:05 AM
Fanfreakingtastic Flower said...

Let me try that again.

(Sheesh)

September 1, 2010 10:48 AM
maine character said...

triceratophat -
Lola Pants in Nancy's dress!
The Gipper growling for jelly beans!
The Kittyland mystery deepens!

September 1, 2010 12:43 PM
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