If you send me an email with the subject “READ ALONE AND DO NOT DELETE!!!!!”

Guess what?

I will delete it.

Thanks for your time.

Bah, I’m just tired of email forwards. I had gotten to the point where my friends had gotten the clue, finally, not to send me these things. But then I met new people and all that fell through the cracks. For instance, there was this one woman I spoke to briefly at a craft fair in June (fellow boother). She needed some information, I had it at home. I gave her one of my cards and told her to drop me an email, then I would respond with the information. She did, and then I did. Now I am subjected to all these forwards from her about getting free gift certficiates from Applebee’s or make a wish and then send this to 10 people and it will come true. Blah, blah, blah.

I just waded through three forwards including the “do not delete” one. I did start to look at it and once I got past all the addresses tucked in there, the email itself is very sporadic… a short line of text, three lines of space, a short line of text, five lines of space, etc. I really hate those. Really. So it got deleted immediately.

The first forward had text that was around 20 point, black, Comic Sans… with a bright yellow background. I made it through most of that one, it was an okay story – something I’ve heard before, but completely turned around now. But when the email started telling me to make a wish on the story and then send it to a thousand people, otherwise I hate everyone… it got deleted.

The third was a slow moving joke. The last line? “When you stop laughing, pass it on.” Well… maybe, if I had ever laughed in the first place. It was just not funny. Delete.

As if I don’t have enough to deal with, I’ve got all this crap to wade through. :P

I propose we add to the ballots this November a law that will make illegal any and all forwarded emails of this nature. Who’s with me?