I am a pretty skeptical person.  I do not forward chain letters, or even read them.  I can spot a pyramid scheme a mile away.  But when my friend Dina sent me a chain letter/pyramid thing for my kids, I thought it could be harmless fun.  All I had to do was send a children’s book to the kid listed as #1 on the letter, move Dina’s kids up to position #1, add my kids as position #2 and then mail it to 6 of my friends asking them to do the same.  Because it was for the kids, involved books and I knew the boy already in position #1 was Dina’s nephew…I did it.  I was excited, my kids would soon be getting 36 books in the mail, all addressed to them.  I knew they would love it.

Well….I sent the letters to 6 of my friends right around Labor Day.  Pookie and Geetle got a Halloween book within a week and then a CARs book a few days later.  They were so excited.  I told them I had enrolled them in the “Book Friends Club” and that these books were coming from my friends, just for them.

But then….no more books.  Nothing since September 15th (I know the date, because we happened to visit Dina that day.)  Come on people!  Did my friends not send the letter along?  Did the people they sent the letter to just ignore it?  I know that it’s a chain letter.  I know its a pyramid scheme.  But what’s the harm in sending a $3.99 book to a kid you don’t know (keep in mind that the kids are only one step removed from you, they are the kids of a friend of someone you know).  Why did my kids only get 2 books?  I am disappointed.   I keep hoping that one day soon Don the Mailman will bring us 34 packages in one day.  But, I doubt it.