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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: SallyintNorth on December 07, 2011, 01:23:08 pm
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I have just received one of those 'life-affirming' emails, at the end of which I am urged to pass this letter on to all of my friends. If I do so I shall enjoy good luck; the more friends I send it to, the more good luck I will enjoy. Nothing wrong with that, perhaps, except that this one, as some do, threatens me with bad luck if I do not pass it on.
This is my response.
Dear Friend
Thanks for the nice thoughts and I unreservedly send them back to you.
But please do not ever again send me anything with a threat of bad luck in it. I really do not like the feeling of having to decide whether I am prepared to make any of my friends feel like I do right now. I never am prepared to do that, so I have to absorb the risk of the bad luck myself.
I once had a handwritten chain letter with this sort of a threat in it and would not pass that on to my friends. I was so upset I contacted the police, who were sympathetic but not prepared to do anything. That year I sprained my ankle badly and it's never been completely right since. And my 10-year old bitch developed an aggressive cancer in her leg which resulted in her being put to sleep.
I know you would have thought only nice thoughts as you sent this on to me and I apologise for any bad feeling my response has caused. I wish you all the good luck in the world for the next week, month, year and the rest of your life!
My very best wishes
Sally
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Sally,
I received an email from a friend recently wishing me good luck and urging me to pass on to 4 other friends. Apparently when the 4 friends respond you then get your good luck. I don't think there was any mention of bad luck but nonetheless I haven't passed it on. I have a real aversion to chain letters/emails.
Well done to you for responding in the way that you did.
Sally
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sally (s)
your too polite, i would tell em to luck off!
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Proper friends wouldn't even send these emails! I spot them and don't even read them - just delete!! Then I don't know what has been promised or threatened ;)
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If they are the "your wish will come true if you forward" type, then one could "wish" for something horrible then delete. Ha!
I hope your response is enough to make the sender stop and think - too many people just pass it on without really thinking about it.
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and this is national friendship week if it were not for bad luck there would be no luck at all :o :farmer:
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I just delete them - always have and I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world, IMHO :)
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I do read them, but don't think I could have had much worse bad luck than losing two husbands so just delete them! ::) All they do is clog up the Internet and it will eventually grind to a halt! ;D
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I used to get so upset about these emails that I sent replies similar to yours - some folk got upset that I thought they intended what they had sent me ::) and some were too scared not to forward it - that about says it all really :(
I now just delete them and if someone keeps sending then I do a similar reply but if they don't like it I just block them as a sender cos frankly life is way too short to have friends like that ::)
I also don't like cute photos of puppies or chimps or sunsets, angels or wise quotes of the day ::) Sadly it seems most of the people I know think these are wonderful ways of keeping in touch without actually making any personal contact whatsoever - hence I have few real friends by my reckoning but better that than joining them in the rounds of rubbish forwarding ;)
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oops, I think I forwarded some cute photos to you once, Ellie - my apologies! ::) :-[ Won't do it again, promise! :-[ :-[
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Good reply Sally.
Yes, not nice to have been threatened with bad luck, especially when some serious bad luck seems to have come your way after the last one :-*
I just delete them too - maybe that's my mistake....... ;)
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Glad you all delete them - I do too and it's my silly sister that sends them (I do love her but...) I don't like the idea of pressuring someone else to post this rubbish on - and I am stupidly superstitious so I don't like it
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Forward to ten friends they say. I haven't got ten friends :o Anyone worried about not sending these ridiculous things on, send them to me and I'll delete them. ([email protected])