I keep getting email forwards (that I first saw back in 1998) from a woman who I don’t know very well but like very much. I want to tell her she’s not a 60 year old woman in Florida but since I hardly know her I don’t know how to say it. I should also mention that the last time I asked someone to stop forwarding me crap the guy went out of his way to send me forwards with cats and babies just to spite me.
The emails are of the “you will have 15 years of bad luck if you don’t send these blinking fairies to everyone you know,” variety. Others contain very witty statements by women that you’re supposed to forward to other women because it will supposedly make their day. I assure you that my day was not made by reading
Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies.
The pink emails with bad cartoons (not pictured so as not to blind you) aren’t the worst. The ones that bug me the most are the “current” emails that reek of “pro-American, anti- everybody else, God is good, soldiers are good, Muslims are bad and everyone who thinks Muslims should be free to practice their religion in our country is a communist” sentiment. The ones that bug me are the ones that no one who actually knows me would ever forward unless they were forwarding them so we could make fun of the person who sent them together. Emails like this one:
How the phone should be answered……Rules for the phone.
How ALL business phones SHOULD be answered!
GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .
Press “1″ for English.
Press “2″ to disconnect until you learn to speak English
And remember only two defining forces have ever
offered to die for you,Jesus Christ
and the American Soldier.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
If you agree……keep it going
I mean seriously, it’s bad enough that I’m Jewish and she’s sending me Jesus dying on the cross, but the racist overtones? And the fucking clip art? I don’t know if it will work with my cut and paste job here, but the actual email has blinkies. What decade is this?
I keep deleting them because I like her, but the more emails I get make me wonder if it’s a friendship worth pursuing.
Lori | 23-Aug-07 at 8:24 am | Permalink
oh no. so not worth it.
boyfiend | 23-Aug-07 at 9:03 am | Permalink
I kind of like these. My favorite is the “Press two to hang up until you learn English.” Only second to the, “Good morning, welcome to America.” Who would have known boyfiend was such a xenophobe. I can’t wait for her emails on Obama.
Chris Lehmann | 24-Aug-07 at 1:37 pm | Permalink
Could be worse… you could get emails like that from your mother-in-law.
sarah | 29-Aug-07 at 11:01 am | Permalink
wow. that’s actually really offensive.