I am not knocking prayer. I swear I'm not. But after receiving a prayer email from an acquaintance/friend that was cleverly cut and pasted so FWD: disappeared from the subject line I just gotta. The first part that irritates me about this is that FWD: was deleted from the subject line though it was clearly a FWD: And after I have spent so much time and effort directing my mailbox to send anything with FWD: directly into my spam folder. You got me this time. If this keeps up though that person's email address is the next spam directive.
It's not that I don't have the time to read each and every damn piece of spam, marketing and real emails that graze my pc. I do. I can read them twice and thoroughly. I love to read and sometimes I get bored. No, this is not the problem. It's not that a good percentage of the time emails that contain FWD: in the subject line threaten my life, my luck, or my health in the last line after a supposed well wish or inspirational, cute, little frickin story. This I can deal with. The threat of a bunch of years of bad luck is really no threat at all to me. Bring it on. It's not even that most of them are so stupid and not in any way funny, intellectual or inspiring. Those things bother me but aren't my real button pushers.
The main thing is that 9 times out of 10 the person sending it does not acknowledge the above. Even my closest friends and family. What I want to do and sometimes do do (hee hee) is respond with a sarcastic, "Seriously? This is sooo stupid. You know I don't exchange recipes, believe in god, care about cute pics of dogs or cats, believe a woman was followed to her car in parking lot by a serial weirdo who put a receipt on her back window, etc, etc, etc,." What I want to say is, " When you have something to say to me that pertains to whatever relationship you might have with me then you can send me an email. If you really want me to pray for you ask me. I will wish you the best and send positive vibes in whatever way I can. If you think something's funny or worth sharing type in my address and start the exchange the good ol' fashioned way with -- Hello! Most especially if your email requests that I actually do anything because someone first asked you to do that thing you'd be better off just skipping me. I will break the chain.
If you don't comment on this post within 15 minutes of reading this all the hair on the middle top of your head will fall out and will regrow from the palm of your hand. IT IS TRUE!! DO NOT DELETE!!!!
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