Promotion to a superlative
This post is the first in my new category, Smile of the Day, but I’ll probably add more posts to it as I go through the archives. I won’t post in it daily but ‘Smile of the undefined amount of time’ doesn’t sound as good, does it…
Today I received an email from our Brazilian vendor and the project manager had signed it with “Kindest regards”. I don’t usually read signatures (except to see who’s written me) but this caught my eye. I had to check some of the previous emails and they said ‘best regards’ or ‘kind regards’. Kindest really felt like a step up the ladder.
What made it all the more cute is that I have a habit of “blabbering” with this PM.
I feel so special now. 
Haha, that’s good, isn’t it? =)
Interesting.. I hardly see people write “Kindest” before regards.. heh.
Comment by Vera — Oct 27 @ 14:12
The link for the Smile of the Whenever it Happens didn’t work for me.
Comment by jafer — Oct 28 @ 2:41
Thanks, Jafer, for pointing that out. I changed the permalink structure, because it’s insane to have “/blog/archive/category/categoryname/” but forgot to update the link. I couldn’t remove the middle part altogether so I shortened it. I’d like to have just /blog/categoryname/, but I don’t know if it’s possible. Most likely there is a plugin for it, but I just can’t be bothered right now
Kindest is good. It’s awfully difficult to be creative in the “thanks for the files, kind regards - Minna” messages and signatures. Probably it doesn’t matter what I write in my signature because sometimes, even if I write my name, people call me by a wrong name (they confuse my name and the name of another project manager).
I think the funniest signature I saw was a “template” where the writer had forgotten to replace their name with the template “Name” so it said
Kind regards,
Name
instead of e.g.
Kind regards,
Minna
Comment by Minna — Oct 28 @ 14:38