This morning my eight year old daughter stuck two fingers up at Father Christmas in her christmas begging letter. I’d read my son’s letter first, it was direct, yet polite, satisfied, I folded it neatly, stuffed it into it’s bright orange envelope and wrote the address on the envelope (thanks Royal Mail!).
Then I checked my daughters letter, she’s a nice girl, not like me, I’m not a girl. What I did notice however was a distinct lack of manners. No please, no thank you! She didn’t even sign off with her name! She simply wrote out her list of demands and left it with me for sending!
Here’s one of her early drafts, before she had been informed that it’s generally good to stick your address at the top!
On some reflection, I’m quite proud to see that her demands are quite reasonable and she doesn’t ask for anything particularly expensive, though I take issue with anything related to One Direction (bunch of cunts).
Anyway, the one that was to be sent was in much the same style, only with the addition of an address at the top. I asked her why she’d not said please, told her that it was quite rude to just present a list of “things what you want” at which point she asked what she should put there then…
In the end I pretty much gave up and said “well at least put a smiley face on the end” – which she promptly obliged and drew on there. When I made a move to take the letter from her she said “wait, I’m not finished yet” at which point she promptly proceeded to draw a circle around the face, and drew a hat which looked like a cock and balls on the top!
Way to go – sign off your letter with a big “fuck you, you fat fucking twat”. Good girl!










