I'm Sure You Get This All the Time: Letters to the Companies That Make the Small Stuff

By L.B. Phillips

Somewhere in America, a man is writing letters.

Not complaints. Not fan mail, exactly. Letters - to Ziploc, to Sharpie, to Crayola, to Waffle House, to Steinway, to the Library of Congress - asking the people who make the small, dependable things whether anyone over there still has a real pen, a spare minute, and one gloriously ordinary object worth saving.

His method is simple: ask nicely, mean it, and keep the good ones. His friend Duane's method is simpler still. Duane believes a Ziploc bag is "just a window you can close," that a Sharpie "doesn't write - it swears," and that purple is, against all available evidence, a flavor. Duane is wrong about almost everything, with a confidence the author has come to depend on.

Across seventy-five letters and five unforgettable friends, I'm Sure You Get This All the Time builds - one sealed banana, retired crayon, and second-shift stranger at a time - into a very funny and unexpectedly tender book about paying attention: to objects, to companies, and to the quiet people who couldn't throw the reject out either.

You will never seal a sandwich the same way again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG3CJ316
• ISBN13: 9798194113361
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"