Sympathy card for a coworker

the hell do i write in this thing?

five people have gotten to this guy before me and written all the typical stuff.
no clue what to put here that isn't repetitive or trite.

(his mom passed away btw)

repetitive and trite is ok

and nonserious answers welcome, btw.

Yeah this is one writing exercise where you don't have to be creative or original, at all.

otm

sorry yr mom died. that blows.

true. i doubt he's even going to read them all.

xpost lol

i'm serious!

you don't have to write a bracing and insightful eight-word poem or anything, it's not about you. just say "sorry for your loss" and that's that.

xps abbott otm

it's better to say something than nothing.

roses are red violets are blue /
yr mom died, i feel srry for u

No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.

i heard u were sad
<drawing of a puppy>
hope this cheers u up

ha ha. goole, i knew you were being serious. that's the route i went.

tbh I don't think people even want to hear crazy, original shit when they're all cut up.

They just want to be soothed in the clearest manner posisble.

TBH the one time I got a sympathy card at work the only thing I noticed was who DIDN'T sign it in the office.

five people have gotten to this guy before me and written all the typical stuff.
no clue what to put here that isn't repetitive or trite.

Haha, I just had the same reaction to a card that was just passed to me for a coworker whose pet bird just died.

"so sorry about your fucking bird, gawd"

'polly want a casket, skrrawwk' accompanied by cartoon bird with X X for eyes

Pimp C dead???

I actually seriously considered drawing a cartoon bird -- I even practiced on a Post-It -- and then thought better of it.

Haha, I just had the same reaction to a card that was just passed to me for a coworker whose pet bird just died.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 21:02 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is deliberate o_O wtf bait, right?

I am choosing to believe you were practicing drawing an angry dude extending his middle finger

PET BIRD?! i didn't get a sympathy card for the following thing that were much worse: when i took time off to be with my mom who'd just had a severe stroke, when my grandmother died, when the J's traded Halladay, when i stubbed my toe really bad.

OK, to be fair, this wasn't like a department-wide thing, just for a few of us who are friends with the former bird owner.

do you work in a Belle & Sebastian song?

actual lol

http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab143/therockynest/holiday010.jpg

Serious non-bird related answer: I usually write something to the tune of "I'm sorry for your loss. You're in my thoughts, Jenny" with more or less personalization as befits my specific relationship to the bereaved. You can also go for the super simple, "With sympathy, Thermo." It is okay if other people have already written these same exact things.

(Things got so bad around here about six months ago that I actually found it cost efficient to buy the econo pack of sympathy cards from the Hallmark store in my building, so I have some recent practice w/ this issue.)

yikes!

just draw an arrow to whatever coworker's already written message seems the most appropriate, write "this" and then sign underneath

^^^^^

I cut and paste someones message and then just add my name to it. The card ends up with a hole in it and an ugly piece of tape on it but what are you going to do?

your mom = dead
me = ;_;

oh brownie that made me lol hard

sorry for your lol

Things got so bad around here about six months ago that I actually found it cost efficient to buy the econo pack of sympathy cards from the Hallmark store in my building

Do you work at Chernobyl or something? :|

Ha, no. It was just a weird convergence of deaths-the-family among coworkers and friends. It was like four in a month, then another the month after.