Amidst the flurry of catching up with bills that haven’t been paid simply because I haven’t had the time to sit down and go through them in the last few weeks, I found the subscription renewal for the Reader’s Digest.
The Reader’s Digest has always been in my home for as long as I can remember. It has become a family tradition, and it would feel strange not to have it on the reading table in the bathroom. It is the perfect bathroom magazine because it has several short stories and articles of varying lengths–from paragraphs for quick stops to several pages in size including a condensed version of a book bonus for more serious sitting.
As our family has spread out, we’d noticed that my dad no longer subscribes, so either my sister or myself pass along our copy to him (goodness knows that with age comes certain physical problems that direly require the benefit of bathroom reading, perhaps even going into the novellas). But another problem has been noticed, and that is of course my dad’s growing problem with reading the small print. My sister and I have discussed our own stages in the aging process, and although she’s older than me, it has been decided that I will be switching my subscription to the Large Edition Print to be passed along to my dad.
The last problem in the chain of events? I can’t read the fine print to see how to make the change.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
As an interesting aside to an update of my subscription to the larger print edition, I will be paying an addition $6.00 per year.
Don’t it frost ya that the elderly–who would most likely be the majority of the needers of this edition, are once again getting screwed?