Comments on: On chains, and some weather hijinks

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:46:06 +0000

My aunt HAS to be the most horrible chain e-mail addict in history. It’s even become a family joke. Each day, when I and my other relatives go to clean out our e-mail boxes, invariably three-fourths of them are from her, all with the dreaded FWD: in the subject line.

By: Tdave

Tdave — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:20:37 +0000

In my younger days (not too, too long ago) I decided, “What the heck, I need the luck.” and sent-on a (snail mail) Good Luck chain letter. I picked 10 unknown people. I saw an address that I found interesting. So some poor guy living in Aluminum City Terrace got a chain letter from me simply because I got a hoot out of the name “Aluminum City Terrace”.

By: gus

gus — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:29:26 +0000

One time my aunt got a snail mail chain letter. She promptly took it to her priest who promptly tore it to pieces. She never worried about it again. My dogma can beat up your dogma.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:31:02 +0000

My mother is the worst chain addict I know. I can barely get her to write a note to me that says hello (I live on a different continent), but when she gets a chain message she MUST send it on. The kicker is how many “God love you” messages I get when I’ve never seen a woman in sight of a church let alone in one.

By: te

te — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:30:03 +0000

pictures are too small!

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:13:21 +0000

I have many people in my life who are chain-mail-forwarders. The only one I forgive is my husband’s grandfather. He always sends those “God bless you” ones or just hilariously stupid ones. I know his intentions are good. So I scan them through and delete them.

Others – I just roll my eyes and move on with my day.

PS: I LOVED Christopher Pike. I was reading him in elementary school!

By: Molly W.

Molly W. — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:59:19 +0000

My oldest sister is a horrible chain-proliferator. She forwards anything and everything to me and my other sister, and my mother; whether it be a schmaltzy “best friends forever” poem with tons of twinkling star graphics and a frightening clipart of a baby with an over-large head, or a “You’re Phone Will Ring After U Open THis!!” magic trick email. She even fills out all those “Getting to Know You” surveys, even though we, as her closest family members, know her quite well already. I could complain and ask her to take me off her “Forward” list, but I get so few emails in a day, I don’t mind having something taking space in my Inbox.

By: Pepper

Pepper — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:27:47 +0000

Can you make those pictures any bigger? I grew up in Sturgeon Bay and no one understands why I won’t go visit my family in the winter!

By: Kelly J

Kelly J — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:19:16 +0000

I don’t have a funny chain story, but your charming description of your parents and their email skills reminded me of mine…

My dad was absolutely inept when it came to email, he once tried to have me help him email someone from home. After 30 minutes to log on remotely to his work email, he goes to type in the email address, which the receipient had spelled out for him over the phone. The only problem? He had assumed my dad knew that “at” meant @, not a-t. Plus, my dad was VERY stubborn. About an hour later, the email got sent. And to “someone @ email-dot-com,” not “someoneatemail-dot-com.”