As
you are receiving email, it's wise to remember how easily this wonderful technology
can be misused, sometimes unintentionally and with serious consequences. Consider
the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for
a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet
him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife
a quick email.
Unable
to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her email address, he did
his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he missed one letter and
his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife, whose husband had
passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her email,
she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the
floor in a dead faint. Hearing the scream, her family rushed into the room and
saw this note on the screen:
"Dearest
Wife,
Just
got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
P.S.
Sure is hot down here!"
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