Really? Does that still happen? Seriously?
I received an interesting email in my gmail inbox today. I’ll leave the poor soul of a sender anonymous; the subject read: “A Birthday A Day”. At first I thought it was spam, from the awful subject, but upon looking at the sender I realized that this was an acquaintance who must have acquired my email address somehow. In an angry rage, here, I dissect the components of this horrible email, and my blunt response.
Hey, let’s have some fun and see how long and where this goes. This will be our big 2007 email to pass on……Give it a go–365 Birthdays! This is kind of cool,…Out of all of the billions of people who live in the world, there has got to be somebody born on each date of the year. We are going to try to accomplish the task of seeing if we can fill the calendar up with a birthday on every day of the year.
Add your name, NO LAST names, with your city/state (or province) next to your birth date to the list below. Then send this list to all of your
friends, {Plus the person who sent it to you!}…Let’s see if we can do it!!
Remember, COPYING and PASTING this to a NEW E-mail will keep it clean and make it easier to read than just forwarding it. If someone already put their name in the slot of your birthday please just add your name beside it, DO NOT DELETE THAT PERSON’S NAME!
I took the liberty of italicizing everything absurd about the message, just to make things clear.
First, no, email is not fun, it’s serious business. Where did your message end up? My blog, with me angrily yelling at your stupidity. No, it’s not kind of cool, at all.
Out of all of the billions of people who live in the world, there has got to be somebody born on each date of the year.
Really, there has got to be? I’m pretty sure no one was born on February 17. It’s a fact, and a good idea, because I say so.
A concession to the idiocy here is that the original writer decided to warn people not to put in their last names. I wish he or she included his or her last name, however, so that I could call them out on this. Also, keeping things clean? How lovely, a wonderful idea amongst so many bad ones.
People, don’t do this to someone you love, know, or hate; you (and everyone else you received your junk) might get a response like this from Ricky:
Send me this stuff again, and there will be heck to pay.
Thank you!
I keep things here at Exposay clean, of course. I did not give the sender of said email the same consideration, however. My only concession in this entire experience would be if one of the other victims enjoyed my retort.
WAIT.
Weren’t YOU born on Feb 17th?
(yes I had to say that, just so no one else would)
Chain e-mails are definately an ideal way to waste time on mindless reading material, if you’re in to that kind of thing. They’re irritating and lack truth in every element possible. I personally have a resentment against those e-mails that come with a threat (i.e. “if you do not pass on this e-mail to 48 of your ‘friends’ in within the next 48 hours, you will die.”) I hope those senders will one day find daytime employment, as that is clearly lacking in their lives.
I hate that too, Christine. The ridiculous thing is that you know someone, somewhere out there believes those threats. Or, even worse, “if you send this to 50 people the name of your lover will appear here”.
BUT… If you don’t send my blog to 24 people in the next 24 hours, you will most certainly die a horrible death.
Well I love chain mail. My favorite are the one’s that are like all peaceful and they tell you to turn the speakers up, then this scary dead face pops up and a really loud sound goes off. I fell for it once…or twice…or