As heard on the 1XX Breakfast Show with Colin Magee.
It’s wise to remember how easily this wonderful technology can be misused, sometimes unintentionally, with serious consequences. Consider the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets
of Chicago for a sun-filled vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business 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. Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best 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 the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took on look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint.
At the sound, her family rushed to the room and saw this note on the screen: Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything is prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
PS. Sure is hot down here.