IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
Good evening morning Shop Dwellers! I'm up way past my bedtime, but I just had to share this story:
We had an excellent Christmas, three out of four kids and their Significant Others were here (the other daughter was in Sherrell's town celebrating with SIL's family). As soon as I had finished with all my prep work for the Feast, I sat at the laptop to peruse the Forum; but first, I checked my Gmail inbox for some cellphone photos I had sent to myself, and deleted ~a dozen spam messages from the usual suspects (BestBuy, Michaels, Modeltrainstuff, TrainWorld and a few others). The cellphone photo messages were there but I didn't have time to edit them, 'cuz dinner was being served.
Everybody was reflecting on the various gifts they had gotten, and my 24yr-old daughter asked me "Hey Dad, did you get the email I sent you this morning?" [me] "Ummm..no. When did you send it?" [D] "Last night." [me] "Strange, I didn't see anything with your sender ID on it." [D] "It didn't come directly from my account, but from the vendor's." (Uh-oh...!) I mentioned that I might have deleted it, and she said "Bring up Gmail on your Android and let me see it." I told her to look in the "Trash" folder, which she did - then a few seconds later she said "Ok, here it is!" It was the Modeltrainstuff.com "spam" message that I had nuked earlier. I opened the message and, lo & behold - a $100 MB Klein Gift Certificate that I almost carelessly threw away.
I felt like an idiot, but my daughter reassured me that she, too, gets inundated with spam messages from her favorite vendors and ignores them if she's not expecting anything from them. I moved the gift certificate message back to the Inbox and marked it "unread" to keep it displaying at the top of the list. Bottom line is: When clearing out your spam messages on or near Christmas Day, make sure you read what is in them first!!!
(Now back to our regular programming...)
We had an excellent Christmas, three out of four kids and their Significant Others were here (the other daughter was in Sherrell's town celebrating with SIL's family). As soon as I had finished with all my prep work for the Feast, I sat at the laptop to peruse the Forum; but first, I checked my Gmail inbox for some cellphone photos I had sent to myself, and deleted ~a dozen spam messages from the usual suspects (BestBuy, Michaels, Modeltrainstuff, TrainWorld and a few others). The cellphone photo messages were there but I didn't have time to edit them, 'cuz dinner was being served.
Everybody was reflecting on the various gifts they had gotten, and my 24yr-old daughter asked me "Hey Dad, did you get the email I sent you this morning?" [me] "Ummm..no. When did you send it?" [D] "Last night." [me] "Strange, I didn't see anything with your sender ID on it." [D] "It didn't come directly from my account, but from the vendor's." (Uh-oh...!) I mentioned that I might have deleted it, and she said "Bring up Gmail on your Android and let me see it." I told her to look in the "Trash" folder, which she did - then a few seconds later she said "Ok, here it is!" It was the Modeltrainstuff.com "spam" message that I had nuked earlier. I opened the message and, lo & behold - a $100 MB Klein Gift Certificate that I almost carelessly threw away.
I felt like an idiot, but my daughter reassured me that she, too, gets inundated with spam messages from her favorite vendors and ignores them if she's not expecting anything from them. I moved the gift certificate message back to the Inbox and marked it "unread" to keep it displaying at the top of the list. Bottom line is: When clearing out your spam messages on or near Christmas Day, make sure you read what is in them first!!!
(Now back to our regular programming...)
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