Also I Have Decided To Stop Buying Wedding Presents For You People

[snurri]

The Schwartz family is planning a reunion, and half a dozen or so mass emails have been exchanged in the past couple of weeks. This morning this one arrived:

"Hi - just want to let you know that I'm not in your family and have been getting emails from you for the past few years. Please take [email@redacted] off your listing.

Thanks-"

This may be my favorite thing ever.

Comments

[readingthedark.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. I never pictured you as coming from a long line of spammers. More real: I wonder how it got on the list. Was their a connection that got cut and pasted wrong, a now denied liason, a typo? It seems the sort of thing that would not happen without an explanation of some sort...

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Clearly it's just cousin Jessminda's amnesia acting up again.

[maggiedr.livejournal.com]

I'd have shown up for the reunion, because everyone knows the deviled eggs are just killer at family reunions.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Mm deviled eggs!

[stephl.livejournal.com]

I should try this with my mom.

[penrynsdreams.livejournal.com]

For a while I was getting chain letters and little updates from someone who clearly believed she was my mother. After a few of those emails, though, I told her I wasn't her daughter.

Who doesn't know their daughter's email address? :P

[zhai.livejournal.com]

That is awesome. What's interesting also is that it apparently took them several years to let whomever know.

I occasionally get bizarre personal emails, once even on the uncomfortably personal side (something about a friend whose mother had just died). Too common a name + gmail stomp.