All the Fun I Could Have Had!

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I wrote a Letter to the Editor of our local paper on the Fourth of July complaining about the amount of illegal fireworks in our area and how the police failed to follow through on cracking down on them even when people were calling and reporting them as the city asked. Well, this evening I got a call from someone from the paper, saying my letter had been approved and will be printed probably in the next few days (which kind of seems pointless to me now since the Fourth is long past, but eh...whatever.) But first he had me verify that I had actually written it by paraphrasing what it was about! I have written many Letters to the Editor over the years, and I have never had to do that before. It makes me wonder if they have a problem with people writing letters pretending to be someone else and providing false contact information. But who the hell would commit "identity theft" to write Letters to the Editor for a small, local paper that hardly anybody reads anymore? I am now sitting over here amused by this notion, even though I know it's a highly unlikely one. Just think, all the years wasted when I could have been writing bizarre letters to our local paper and attributing them to people I don't like! Oh, all the possibilities, lost now that they make you verify you actually wrote your letter!