You are all probably veterans at receiving spam unless you are my gran and you call email computer post and MSN text phoning.
I bet you hate getting spam - I do. Well have you ever opened spam in public? Believe me you don't want to.
Once upon a time, I was in the library (which you could call my home without rent) getting out a book. Then I had a thought: 'remember that important email I was getting today' at which point I logged onto one of the free computers and checked my email. Nothing.
Now everything started to go wrong. I am one of those people who like getting emails. Having no emails of note I went to look in the spam folder to have a laugh as I usually get hilarious spam I once had the daughter of an Israeli rebel leader asking if I would sent them all my details and 100 pounds. The reason they gave was I was on the Israeli government "trusted email list". I did not reply and just laughed at how stupid you would have to be to believe that.
Well this email was not funny and I opened it with a friend my on left and someone I had never met in my life at the photocopier on my right. So I clicked on the email, it opened, my friend said something, I looked away form the computer, I turned back and the man beside me gave me the most foul look. It was an advert... For Viagra!
So there I am in a library looking at a Viagra advert with the heading "do you have trouble pleasing women?" I may as well have been sitting with pig tails and a skirt I would not have felt any more stupid.
Well what do you do in this situation? I thought This is one of these times you want to swear but that just makes things worse. So I decided to go with a "publicly accepted swear word" like "shoot" , "dash", "blast", "sugar lumps" or "oh diddly". However, at the time the best I could think of was oops. That helped. NOT
So the moral of the story is: when you get spam lock the door, black out the windows and unplug the door bell. Or you could of course just delete it - thats what I will do now.
Connor Davidson 05/03/08
