Why parents shouldn't understand emailFollow

Somehow I got on the mailing list of a friends sister who just learned about the Interwebs like six months ago. Every BS email you could think of, Nigerian money scams, Gates giving Millions, A "new" odorless tasteless and legal date rape drug, chain letters, some shiat about a Our Lady of Something who protects those who forwards her teachings to 20 people, etc etc.

I especially love the pictures of those zany and wacky Halloween costumes from 1997.

My pops is the worst. He's had email and the interwebs for over 5 years, and he still sends me all that crap. The worst part is he'll include little notes about what's going on with him and the family in it, so I can never just auto-delete them or I might miss someone's wedding or funeral.

I have one friend (bless her, she means well) that forwards me every request for a 'fwd in order to help save a whale' ******** email scam under the sun. I just delete them without reading them.

My mom can't figure out how to send email, so she just calls me if I email her. Ideal!

My mom was upset when my dad got a new computer and "It deleted all the address lists." I had to explain to her that it was on the old computer and I would copy it over for her when I had the chance.

One day my mom sent me something actually important and, when she later asked if I had read it, I told her that I normally don't read her emails because they are always junk. No junk since.

I solved the "junk from family" issue by responding to the first infraction with a templated email that included a link to Snopes and instructions on how to use it, and proceded to explain how most of the shit they will receive is circa 1995 and that most people will think them stupid for forwarding it.

I don't get ANY email from them anymore. 2 birds with one stone!

My parents never forward me any crap. They actually understand that is is crap and they delete it when they get it. Occasionally my dad will send me a joke. But my sister sends me any joke that gets sent her way, and that gets old.

If I get an email from either parent I always read it though, since it's so rare that I get anything from them.

I spoke to my mother this morning, and she will filling out an online request for a transfer to another unit that my sister had left up on her computer for her. She was calling me because, according to the printout, there was another whole page she couldn't find. I had to talk her through scrolling down and finding the "next" hyperlink. She wouldn't give up on trying to type it in, even though it took her almost a full minute to find the "/" key. Finally she grumpily asked me to call her later.

When I finally did, she was on her way home from the HR department, where she had come in to fill out a paper request in person.

Your mother loves you.
Why don't you love her?
Someday, your own children will treat you the same and you'll remember her and wish you could take it back but then it'll be too late!!!!

Meh, she has the ability to call me when I am driving and the radio is up to high to hear the phone or I'm on the toilet or in the shower or.... as for not calling her back? "I'm just calling to see how everything is...." "Yeaa, not much has changed since yesterday mom. Thanks for caring."

Boy.
You people are some soulless mother-hatin' bastages.