Chepooka

Intolerance

Seriously?

First it was an email forward from Brian’s die-hard wing-nut step father about Barack Obama. “Everything in this email is factual! You can verify on Snopes.com!” Having not been born yesterday, I verified it on Snopes, yuh, that it was false.

I emailed him back, thinking he would be embarrassed, but he emailed me back again and said “if you believe what you read on Snopes I have some land in Arizona to sell you.”

Huh?

Then there’s this other man, same crotchety old white guy demographic who I met earlier in the year, friend of an acquaintance, who I am pretty sure interpreted me handing him my business card as an invitation to forward me emails about Jesus and animated glitter flowers that will send me straight to hell if I don’t forward on to 12 people in 3 minutes.

But because I am nice (shut up), I asked him to kindly direct non-work-related emails to my personal email account. That way I could delete them without reading at my leisure.

Then! And I can only assume it’s because he deems them SO CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY, he started forwarding these nutball Barack Obama emails to me. Let’s see, there were a few “Oh-my-god-he’s-a-terrorist and the main stream media is lying to you!” And the latest, “Michelle Obama hates white people so for the love of God don’t vote for the blackies if you value your whitehood forward on to everybody you know that is white ok?!!!”

Hi, have we met? I’m kind of a big liberal, so.

Fuck off already.

Yeah, I said it.

First I felt bad for asking him to email me at a different address.

Then I felt a bit guilty when I wrote again with “Please take me off your forward list for these types of emails, thanks.”

And now, today, I feel pretty good about responding the third time with “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WILL YOU PLEASE STOP FORWARDING ME THIS CRAP?!!!”

I am going on record to say that if you get your information from six month old email forwards, you are a republican douche bag. And if you forward me one more email I’m coming over with every Michael Moore movie ever made and An Inconvenient Truth too, some duct tape, and a baseball bat.

Posted by chepooka on 04/05 at 06:07 PM

Comments

LOL! I resemble this experience too! But it is my wacko Uncle whom I love dearly who keeps sending me all this crap. Thank god he will read Snopes and retract crap when I am able to point out truths and lies.

Good luck, your guy seems to be in a little padded cell of his own making.

Posted by Viki on 04/05 at 08:25 PM

Hey, T, I apologize for posting here for this, but I don’t seem to have your email address.

Contact me, okay? I have something to discuss....

Posted by Rick on 04/06 at 08:50 AM

Last I checked there IS land in Arizona… maybe you should point that out to him. Pheonix is a pretty hot place to have a vacation home these days, maybe he should look into it.

Posted by on 04/08 at 09:02 AM

AMEN!

Have I told you lately that I ADORE you ??

Posted by on 04/09 at 04:47 PM

Aww, I adore you too, poo. :D

Posted by chepooka on 04/10 at 07:26 AM

I have made my relatives from Louisiana stop sending that kind of drivel. The bad part is that they believe all that crap.

Posted by Ole Blue on 04/18 at 03:19 PM

>>And if you forward me one more email I’m coming over with every Michael Moore movie ever made and An Inconvenient Truth too, some duct tape, and a baseball bat.

Does that mean I’d finally get to see you in person? Check your inbox…