Thomas Neville – 10A1/ AR

Persuasive Writing
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10 Guilty Lane
Downington-Llan
Caerliable
Cymbole
DB2 9GT
007999078661

Superlative-Shinesides Holidays
Forcewell Scouse
Mywnhauland
EV1 L26

1st April 2010

Dear Sir/Madam,

This, the very thought of having to do this (again), makes it 100% certain in my mind that your holiday
company is extremely ignorant! Sending this will be my fourth consecutive attempt at writing this letter
to you, each with a period of three months between sending each letter. I understand that you might
be busy and have important matters, like the recession (good riddance!!!) to deal with, but I find this
completely unacceptable as I’m sure that you’d have enough time on your hands to write, or even call
(home number above) to at least say that you will look into my case at a later date.... At least I’d know
that this already waste of time would actually be going there and not end up being a full waste of time!

But no! I can’t believe that I’ve not got even a scrap of a reply, or even acknowledgement of my
existence, although I know for definite that all three of my previous letters have been successfully sent
and delivered as, when I rang the (surprisingly) more helpful Royal Mail to ask if they had actually
sent the letters in the first place, the representative there told me that he was 100% sure that the
letters were personally given to an employee, by the name of “Charles Carmichael”, of the holiday
camp because he had been the only one not on strike this year and so had to hand deliver all the
letters across the country!

So, now on to why I started writing these ignored useless letters to you in the first place.
My family consists of myself, Katrina Fett, my younger brother, Jeffster Morgan, my older brother and
sister, Awesome Mitchell and Ellie Casey, and my mum and dad, Sarah Walker and Chuck Bartowski.
As a family together, we’ve been on many holidays over the years and have even, on special
occasions, returned to certain places as we’ve enjoyed (well, all of them, to be honest) those holidays
so much.... Although we did once return to a place to see how it changed, and we’d be willing to do
this with you, if given the chance. After all, how can we book places if you don’t acknowledge our
existence.....? I’m not using code-names!

Now, our experience at your holiday camp in Mywnhauland really was one of the worst things that any
of us in the family have ever experienced. We’re reasonable people, we can understand if a business
like yourself really is hitting the hard times and so they let their standards slip a teeny-weeny bit or
move their main focus on to something else in order to concentrate on making that area much better
for both yourself, as a business, and people like ourselves, the visitors, or, more to the point, the
consumers.
We booked our holiday package online and, for the “meagre” price of £798.34, we were promised a
helpful, fun and entertaining staff and white-coats that were also the same, a chalet with five main
rooms, three bedrooms (two with two beds, the other with one double bed), a living room, with a Sky
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digital TV/DVD-combi and an Xbox 360 games console with a few, small “mini-bars” of videogames,
DVDs, drinks (soft and alcoholic) and snack-food, then the bathroom, of course, with room for two
people to have a toilet break and a bath with a stand up shower.
We payed for two weeks worth of entertainment, with afternoon (between 12:30pm and 7:30pm)
highlighted showings of a band called “Disturbed” and the (supposedly) well-known comedian,
“Frankie Boyle” for each night of the week, Disturbed in the first week and Frankie Boyle in the
second.

We were appalled at both of these acts; I’ve never heard such language from either so-called
“entertainer”, both going as far as using up to 4 swear words, mostly consisting of the s-word, in the
same verse, in Disturbed’s case, and exactly 9 mentions of the swear words beginning with the letter
“f” and “c” in one segment of Boyle’s routine.
Not only was the swearing terrible, but we were left seriously disturbed by the themes of the songs
that Disturbed sang (excuse the pun, please) and we had never heard such atrocities or racism from
anyone in our lives, at least before meeting Frankie Boyle.... And that was before his show started!
This might have been understandable, and thus forgiven, if there had been some warning placed
before the shows or if you set the shows after the 9pm watershed, but there was neither and so we
were left completely open and defenceless as these two abominations took to the stage and, to be
honest, even the way they each tested the microphone was simply beyond belief, after hearing the
“Two Towers” content, of so-called “comedy”.
Now, my parents can’t get to sleep because they believe that the “foreigners” across the street are
terrorists, or at the very least, burgulars and big football supporters for their “Home” team. On the
other hand, my siblings, and, I’m not too afraid to admit, myself on occasion are always quiet and stick
to ourselves, shutting our parents out of our lives as we now believe that they will perform atrocious
acts of child cruelty if we even look at them the wrong way, thanks to “Down with the Sickness”.

Now, the rest of the holiday was up to standards and we couldn’t be happier there, even thinking
about going there again, until we heard that you took the pair of devils on as full-time employees, or
“entertainers” of the Superlative-Shinesides family.
We are not asking for much, just for the eventual movement of their show’s time, preferably until very
late at night (past 11pm), also including a warning of content (like the ratings on films by the BBFC)
and a brief overview on what the subjects they’ll be covering are about, a recommendation on where
else we could go to be entertained while the “entertainers” are on stage at these times, a refund or
payment of our next holiday, where we’ll return to your holiday camp, and all expenses covered for
family counselling after the state we’ve been left in, either up until the first year of therapy, or our
family is cured of our mental scarring.... Whichever one happens first.

Now, I hope you will reply to this letter as, after spending most of my year on these repeated attempts
at communication, my school-work and social life has suffered greatly, perhaps to a point where both
are non-repairable, I have decided I will give up on these attempts at forgiving and forgetting if I do not
receive some, no, any, sort of reply in the next six months.
I truly hope no misfortunes happen to fall upon you, as I wish you the best of luck in the future.
Finally, before saying my goodbyes to you, hoping that both, this won’t be the last and that I will be
able to say “Hello” to you first, I just wish to underline that we are not asking for much, that you
answer my letter, or, at the very extreme least, that you take in what I’ve asked for you to change,
perhaps even acting on it.

So, thanks for reading this and I look forward to a reply.

Yours sincerely,
Katrina Fett - xXx