Don't you just hate it??

It was one hot lazy afternoon.  I felt like dozing off.  And the doorbell rang.  The dog went crazy so I had to get up (my right foot was killing me!) and see who the heck was that on the gate.  Oh... a letter!  The mailman slipped it between the slats of the gate.  I was kinda wary about these letters.  There was one sticking out in our gate.  It was beckoning me.  Was it a bill?  Hahahahaha!  But as always, curiosity got the better of me and yes, there's that thing called anticipation.  The envelope had no return address.  Hmmm.... curiosity aroused, I quickly went into my room and settled myself on my bed.  And ripped the right end of the envelope.  I pulled the folded paper.  It felt like it was onion skin but it was not.  It's thin though.  I unfolded it and to my consternation it was... a chain letter.

It was actually a chain letter!  How quaint.

I thought, with the advent of the internet and email, you were spared from these nuisances (yes, I treat them with much disgust). Apparently not. But the chain letter works better than the forwarded chain emails you get every day.  Why is that so?  For one, it's personal.  The culprit (whoever you are) painstakingly took the effort of writing and/or typing that darned letter.  And two, the culprit actually spent mailing it to so many people (hmmm.... the letter said to send it to ten other "victims").  Would you have the heart to break it?  It was explicitly written that when ignored, you'd suffer the same bad fate that befell poor Mr. dela Cruz who got fired from his job, Ms. Velez who got sick, etc.

For me, chain letters are not as easy as pressing delete on your keyboard when you get chain emails.  That's because I am now consumed by the fact that someone actually sent one to me!  The nerve!!! Who would have the gall to even send me something like this?  Was he or she wishing that some bad fate would befall me if I will break the chain?  Thoughts were running in my mind.  One of them was really hoping that the letter sender would live a very interesting life (a Chinese curse, I believe).

Sigh.  I crushed the thin paper and threw it in my waste bin. 

Flash forward.  I open my email and see that there were a couple of chain emails.  ARRRRRGGGGGG!!!!  I press delete with glee.  Each and every forwarded chain email (especially those with subjects "pls. forward and don't break it") went to the trash folder.  Sure, there are some worth reading before putting them into their proper place.  There were even some worth forwarding also.  But those which were worth forwarding, I take the effort to delete the previous details of who had received such forwarded chain email.  At least, I do that courtesy of erasing the names of the people who got such chain email.

O well... thank goodness for the delete button.  Now, I'm over and done with them.  Ahh... The power of technology.