Careful Typing That E-Mail Address
July 15th, 2005
> If you ever think of trying to remember an e-mail address from memory,
> consider
> the case of an American man. He left the snow-filled streets of Chicago
> for
> a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to
> meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he
> decided to send his wife a quick e-mail. He was unable to find the scrap
> of
> paper on which he had written her e-mail address so he decided to type it
> in
> from memory.
>
> Unfortunately, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to
> an elderly preacher’s wife, whose husband had passed away only the day
> before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at
> the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead
> faint.
>
> At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the
> screen:
>
> Dearest Wife,
> Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
> Signed,
> Your eternally loving husband.
>
> P.S. It Sure is hot down here.