We're not talking the meat kind here, but the kind that most people get in their inbox every day. Yes that bandwidth wasting, poorly written, irritating variety of email. Not only do I not understand why people bother to send such poorly written literature but what I can't comprehend even more is the IDIOTS who pay attention to it. I mean seriously if I were to stop you in the street wearing the uniform of a major bank and told you that your account may have been compromised and that in order to check you needed to give me your details, passwords and PIN number you would either punch me, call the police or laugh in my face - yet if people get an email that looks SORT OF like it came from a bank they for some bizarre reason think that it must be true and then compromise their details by responding.
THEN there are those ones advertising little blue pills, or cheap shares, or mortgage offers, or bank loans hey the list is longer than a long thing that has been stretched to make it longer! The main thing that I find wrong with these emails is that they cant even spell the product properly let alone string together a coherent sentence. Again, in the real world if I stopped you in the street and didn't look at all professional and said something like "Mortgage I have to sell, its chip boy it from moi" then you would think I was drunk and ignore me, so why do people respond to them - I mean somebody MUST reply to them else why would the spotted freaks in dark rooms write them?
Now I have a mobile phone, I have had a mobile phone for a good few years now so this rant may seem a little hypocritical however hopefully when you have read through it you will understand where I am coming from. It's not because I find people using mobile phones and irritation, its because I find people who ring them to be an irritation to me, let me explain.
Back in the days before everyone had a mobile phone we just had the old normal home phones, if someone rang it and you didn't answer they would simply assume you were not available for what ever reason. Now we have mobiles people call you and simply assume that you will be available, and then when you don't answer they ring again - as its a mobile you have so you might just not have heard them whilst you are out and about.
Yes it IS good to talk but sometimes you are just too busy to do
so, on the bus, the toilet, driving, shopping or generally just not
available. Naturally this rant doesn't apply to everyone who
rings mobiles - just those who do and then complain that you weren't
available (you know who you are)
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