If a person sends you several email forwards a day, what does this mean?

Despite my wholehearted embrace of the doctrine of the total depravity of man, I really think people mean well. It means you’re on the forefront of their minds. It means they want to stay connected. It means people think you really like pictures of purring kittens clogging your inbox. I like to imagine the best.

I usually give people the benefit of the doubt. That is, until they cross the line. Sending a 13 MB file is crossing the line. I waited 20 minutes to download THIS?! Likewise, sending a virus that causes a total hard drive crash is also unacceptable. I don’t open emails from you folks anymore, so stop sending them.

It’s like this. If you don’t “forward this message to 10 friends to let them know they’re loved,” we’ll never know we weren’t in your Top 10. It’s OK. We can’t see that you never forwarded the message, and you’re not morally obligated to pass it along just because someone forwarded it to you. You can stop the madness. Just hit “delete.”

However, if you get one of these, go ahead and forward it. I could use a laugh every now and then. Ignore what I just said.

Attached is a picture of some of the devastation caused by Ernesto yesterday. [This is the storm that caused school closings and media hype all across Florida last week. ~Amy] As I gazed in awe on this picture, it occurred to me that some of you might want to share your “Ernesto stories” with the rest of us. It might be cathartic for all of us to come together and share our stories in the wake of this latest manifestation of nature’s wrath.

Be thankful. This could have happened to any of us.

Here is the attached picture….

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