Wednesday Rant: Chain Letters

I get so many STUPID chain letter emails it isn't funny. Get the hint -do I EVER "send this back"? No... I'm gonna break the chain! I delete them.

With email, it's as simple as a fwd and a few clicks from your address book, and you're on your way to annoying friends and relatives. Remember when they were actual letters... On paper... In envelopes... That required postage? Ha. I remember getting one in elementary school - a chain note. What a chore for a kid - to have to hand copy this stupid note ten times, then find ten friends to give it to... and what if they gave it back to you as one of their ten friends? Did you have to do it all over again, or were you OK since you'd already done it once?

I asked my mother about it and she told me to throw it away. So I did. Is this why my life seems to be an uphill climb? Should I start sending on these inane chain letters? Why then, after telling me that all those years ago, does she insist upon sending me these stupid, *$#((#*$(#*$# chain emails? I don't know. I don't think anyone knows.