LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Earlier this year,

sports editor Robert Cessna

received two e-mails from an irate reader.

The first excoriated him for leaving out

the fact that the Texas A&M women’s

basketball team was playing that day.

“We seriously need more attendance,”

she wrote,

“so how in the world does our local

newspaper not mention that?”

She wasn’t through.

“There are words sufficient to show how irritated I am,

but I chose not to use them.”

She then signed it,

“Upset Reader.”

Soon after,

Upset Reader sent her second e-mail:

“Sorry. I was reading last week’s paper.”