I just hate those e-mails...

[Sheree Bobbins]

that come from a friend and end with threatening you with 3 years of bad luck if you break the chain. Can't governments outlaw these scary items? Just got spooked by my good friend who is very religious. Boy, that makes me mad.

 

[sissybells]

That's why I tell all my friends not to send me those kinds of e-mails. I also tell them that if the e-mail has a FWD in the subject line I will not open it. I delete all those, I don't care who they are from. I don't even open it. I hate them too.

 

[MoniqueU]

I also won't read anything that has FWD in it. No matter how cute someone thinks it is. Chances are by the time it gets to me the little funny has been posted on 10 message boards I read anyway.

 

[becjlek]

I always delete the ones that say I will have bad luck if I break the chain.

 

[Lil_Tink]

But I dont mind the ones like have cute stories with no bad luck or anything

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

Thank-you Steppdaddy! I think I should do the same.

I immediately wrote back to my friend to stop sending me such e-mails. I said that chain letters are illegal in the post box and should be for internet. I told her clearly that she had spooked me and that I was frankly upset. It felt good to get this out in open!

(That assertiveness course I took a few years ago has helped me out, again)

 

[LeCras]

It is my job to bin any such rubbish, and I do it with pleasure!!

Charlotte

 

[Beth76]

What was so spooky about it? All you have to do is delete those messages. No one will know and you really won't have bad luck.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

What was so spooky about it?

Here I'm excited to hear from friend who is known for her Christian point of view.
Then, as time progresses, I read that I will get 3 years of bad luck for not forwarding the message to several people. That's what I call manipulative.

Of course, it is silly to be scared by veiled threats, or to even respond to them. But, somehow it drew me in and then gave me a negative consequence. I know I should laugh them off, but am a super-sensitive soul.

Anyway, I deleted it now and I do feel better being able to talk about how the letter upset me.

 

[GailT]

I just delate that type of mail, from a friend or not, I am not into chain letters so I never do them

 

[wdwgirl03]

I don't like those either. They're so annoying. I never forward them and just delete them right away.

 

[buddy&wooz]

I have one friend who sends these to me all the time. I just delete them unread. So far I haven't accidently deleted a real email from her- she always leaves the FW in the subject.

All my other friends feel like I do about them and don't pass them on.

But my mom finally got email last year and she sends me all kinds of things- lots of them I saw 5 years ago (but they're new to her.) I just let her send them, she'd take it personally if I asked her not to.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

UPDATE:

I immediately e-mailed my friend (in Calgary) and asked her to stop sending these types of e-mail. She was very caring about how I feel. Seems she saw the blessing part and it was so nice, she didn't read the whole thing before passing it along! I'm glad I got things out in the open. I usually love FW's but not ones that start with a beautiful inspirational verse followed by threats.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I delete almost every forwarded email.

 

[Banzai]

I should be dead now, and after I'm dead I have about six millenniums of bad luck...

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

My hubby jokingly ended an e-mail with this:

If you reply you will get untold good fortunes bestowed on your love ones, and if you don't your hair will turn green.

, so this is what I sent him back (a joke of course ). He said he laughed outloud a few times. I don't understand why.

An e-mail with bribery. How fun. Do you know how many of those things I delete. Perhaps that is why we don’t have good fortune. By my estimations, the hamster should be dead, the dog howling all night, barefoot and pregnant with kid number 12, you working at Hoagie Hut—but I did glance at that e-mail, so you have been promoted to shift supervisor. Too bad that you are the only one who works that shift. You can now supervise yourself. Whereas before, you could not be trusted to slice a pickle without showing it to the security camera first. Good thing I read that e-mail. The complex you had b/c of the perception that you would improperly slice a pickle was too much for you to bare. So you joined a pickle therapy group. Pickles are our friends and not food was their motto. You didn’t tell them your secret—working for hoagie hut where everyday you must slice a pickle for human consumption. The shame of it all.



Luckily I did reply—no green hair for me today. After all of those other bad fortunes, I don’t know how would I have coped. One thing to be moody like Oscar the grouch. Another thing to copy his fur-style.

 

[SleepyMom]

I usually get those type of e-mails twice, because I have two friends that get them and pass them on to each other and of course me. So "K" will send one out to 20 people and a day later I will get the same one forwarded again from "A". I just delete them.

 

[slo]

I don't like them either - I think they are silly.

I haven't sent them to anyone and I've yet to see any bad luck come my way

 

[tiberius]

I just email them back to the "friend" who sent it to me all 10 times that I am "supposed" to email it. Funny, I don't them anymore.

I wonder if anyone I sent them back to sent them out 100 times after that.

 

[HayGan]

Those e-mails drive me nuts! There is a woman at my office who always forwards them. I just delete them without even opening them.