I used to regret letting my family have my email address. Most tech-savvy people in their mid-twenties to late thirties probably know what I’m talking about. You thought you’d be doing your parents or grandparents a favor, setting up their computers to work on the internet. You set up an email account so they can email the rest of your family and so they can connect with their old friends. Then, maybe two to three months later it finally happened. You realize the error of your ways when, in your inbox, you find that your beloved family member thinks you would appreciate Dr. Weil’s “natural” cure for acne. Now, I have come to appreciate them. I’ve actually started to get a good chuckle out of the blatantly offensive emails… i.e how the devil would convince people that men and women were born gay and that it wasn’t a choice.
This site is dedicated to all of those emails, the assorted cuteness, the liberal bashing, the pseudoscience, the all-around craziness that is sent to us by our families. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I don’t appreciate the thought. Maybe I could use an acne cure? Lord knows I don’t want to go to hell, so I’d better choose to be straight. And what else am I going to do with my time if I don’t read her emails? Study? Work? Pfft.
