Eating a light bulb...

[Christiern]

You have been at the typewriter all evening and into the early morning hours. You are ready to collapse into bed, but you decide to have a snack first, so you grab a blueberry yogurt and a spoon, and dig in. You are half-way to the bottom of the cup when you bite down on something crunchy. It's a thin piece of glass. You turn on the light and check what's left of the yogurt--the bottom looks as if someone had crushed a light bulb into it. You know that you swallowed some of that glass, so you hope to pick it out of your gut by drinking a lot of water and eating a loaf of awful Wonderbread.

The following day. you write a letter to Colombo Yogurt, recounting your experience, and include the largest piece of glass. Well, you think--not feeling worse for wear, they will probably ship me a case of their yogurt. NOT! But I did get the following letter in which the owner acknowledges the legitimacy of my complaint. Friends told me to sue and that the letter would assure me a victory. I wasn't raised to sue, so I didn't. I just came across the 35 year old letter and thought I'd ask my O friends: what would you have done?

[Chuck Nessa]

First class non-response. You would have been a lousy yogurt maker anyway.

[Free For All]

"Oh, and Mr. Albertson, I just have one more question before I go....."

[Brownian Motion]

It sure was a different world back then. Columbo Yogurt was a courageous little company; they put their own heads on the chopping block and waited for the axe to fall.

[Teasing the Korean]

I'm a very busy man, Mr. Albertson...Now, if you'll excuse me...

[Big Al]

Now if that piece of glass had contained traces of lead, THEN you might've gotten the free case of yogurt.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The whole problem was that you had an ex-directory number, Chris. If they'd been able to phone you, you might have been quite forceful with them.

MG

[Jazzmoose]

one time i opened a beer bottle and i took a swig and felt something on my tongue and stuck out my tongue and tried to pull off whatever was there and it was a small shard of glass which sliced my tongue and my finger as i pulled it off and tried to throw it away. g_d knows what would have happened had i swallowed it. i still dont know how i sensed it on my tongue. now whenever i open a beer bottle i oddly finger the top of the open bottle (even if the beer is for someone else) out of habit to make sure there is no glass missing.

Dude, you could have gotten a free case!!!

[MoGrubb]

What would I have done? Never ever again have bought blueberry yogurt.