Nice Try/SAVE

I don't use my yahoo email much these days because I get more spam there than I'd like - and by more spam than I'd like, I mean any at all. For shits and giggles, I check my spam folder every now and then to see what I'm getting rid of and to make sure nobody from my contact list ended up there by mistake. I did put one person from my contact list there deliberately after that person ignored my request to leave me off of their mass forward/chain email list. I hate that stuff - you know, forward this to at least two other people, the more you send it to, the better your luck will be type of crap? A day after asking this person - and very nicely I might add, to leave me out of this stuff, I got seven or eight more in one fell swoop. Okay.  I asked - you ignored. Into the spam folder you go.

Today is a relatively tame day - there are only 23 emails in my spam folder. I'd hate to have to come up with subject lines for emails that would hopefully get complete strangers to open them and read them, ultimately responding. Then again, if it paid decently...

These days I usually just click empty and I'm confident that I'm not missing out on anything. Today I looked at the senders and subject lines just to make sure I wasn't tossing anything from someone I want to communicate with - no worries there. Here's a sampling of what is in my yahoo spam folder this afternoon and my first thoughts about them with the following format: Sender/Subject line/My gut reaction-response-thought(s):

Trial Kit/Save Thousands on cigarettes/I don't smoke - so I already have, Kelly Moore/Re:/ Re: WHAT? it's not as if I've been in communication with you - leave me ALONE wouldya??, Herschel Strickland/Sup?/ Really? "sup?" yeah...because urban slang is sure to get me to open this one - not a chance Hersch - I don't know anyone named Herschel, Deandre Bean/ Hi!/ beat it!, Sonia Bruno/ Hey!/ Hey - I don't know you! F*** off!, and this last one - my favorite but that's only because I actually liked Barry Manilow - as a kid...just a little bit.....Mandy Nunez/ Date Naughty Girls - 18+ / Oh Mandy, you came and you gave without taking....but I sent you away.

Obviously I'm leaving out all the other crap that I deleted and for the next couple of weeks I probably won't even bother looking to see what's in there before I click the empty button. I hate this stuff, that it even makes it into my home - just seems like more of an intrusion to me, but I guess it had to happen when the world opened up the Pandora's box that is the world wide web. Fortunately all it takes is a simple click to get rid of it. That is all.