I think that people should have to take internet training before they're allowed online. Nothing's worse than an old person that discovers the internet and then starts emailing the same old, recycled jokes from 1998.
This older guy I know (my mom's ex b/f that I'm still kinda friends with) just got the internet about 6 months ago. I made the mistake of telling him my email address and now I get about 10 stupid email jokes from him every day. Jesus H. Christ, I was out of town for a day and a half and I just opened my email to find 22 (twenty f'ing two) emails from him.
I don't have the heart to tell him that I've seen every single joke he's ever emailed me. Like, come on. Who hasn't seen the one where the wife asks the husband to hand her the hair dryer and he's handing her a gun? Or the one with the map of the mall where the guy goes straight to gap to get the jeans and the girl hits every store?
Seriously. It's getting out of hand. He's officially dethroned my dad as the guy that sends the most email that I don't open. (my dad is pretty good at sending me religious and political stuff that I'm not interested in whatsoever)
Actually, my dad is funny. He takes no notice of who sent him something or whether someone on his contact list is also on the original emailer's list.
He's got a friend that I guess I'd say that I'm sorta friends with now, and that guy sends out funny, fresh jokes fairly regularly. Thing is, I'm on his contact list, so I always get the joke from my dad's friend, then the next day my dad forwards it to me again. Like clockwork. Every.Single.Time.
Sometimes someone here posts a good scientific link that I know my dad will find interesting, so I email it to him. Then the next day he'll forward it to me with some kind of note saying "Hey 4x4, you'll find this interesting"...
Thanks, Dad!
