Ah’m Skeered.

“If you don’t repost this, your worst week starts now.”

That’s what I read in a Facebook post 7 days ago.

Despite not reposting any part of it other than the threat of a terrible week, since then:

• A major grinding sound in the rear end of Old Blue turned out to be just loose lug nuts.
• The charging problem on Big Green was the 5 minute job of replacing the $20 regulator (I did it in the parts store parking lot), not the hour it would take to put in a new $50 alternator.
• I picked up some extra work on an online concurrent-enrollment math class, at $50 an hour.

• While at the meeting at the University of Utah for the math class work, my parking meter ran out of time 2 hours before I got out there.  I said something about having to run out there about 15 minutes after my hour was up and we all joked “Ah, the ticket’s already there.”  But when I got out there, my windshield was ticket free.  Anyone who has dealt with the U of U parking knows that’s not luck, that’s a miracle.
• A good friend from my last school just dropped by out of the blue and we had a great afternoon catching up.
• No major injuries were incurred when I fixed my broken clothes washer, at no cost.
• The house didn’t burn down, the car didn’t leave me stranded out in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, I didn’t get robbed or in a car crash or have to visit the emergency room for any reason.

As my grandma Ida would have said; “I should have more worst weeks like this.” 

How to spread a big fat lie.

A chain letter that originally started as a text has made it’s way onto Facebook.  I’ve commented about how I hate those “if you don’t pass this on…” emails (and now texts and Facebook posts) and how even if I like their message, I remove that part before sending it on.

It annoys me.  It’s a flat out threat, calculated to scare people into passing on the originator’s point of view, or in this case a bold faced lie.

A lot of times it’s a way for someone to insure a cause they believe in gets out there.  I this case, since the information being spread is an irrelevant false statistic, I think it’s just some moron out there that gets off on manipulating people.

Duhn, duhn, da!

Guess I’m going to have a bad week.  Or not.

Funny Schtuff.

I love it when I win something, even when I didn’t enter any contest.

I immediately opened the attachment, because there is no way it contains a virus.  Not coming from a legitimate company like The Coca Cola Company.  I mean, there’s nothing suspicious about a multi-national company like Coke using a hotmail account, is there?

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Then I come home today to get an offer for a great deal on my mortgage.  3.75% is much better than the 3.25% I ‘m paying now, right?

Holy outdated database, Batman!

Ohhh, I'm SCARED! Wal-Mart is making money!

Ok, you all know (or at least most of you do) that I'm not a big fan of forwarded propaganda emails. And this is no exception, other than the fact that it may be true. But so what? Wal-Mart makes money. Because Wal-Mart makes money, Wal-Mart grows. Same with McDonalds, Starbucks and Barnes & Noble. But for some reason when Wal-Mart does it's some sort of communist plot to overthrow the American way of life. Yeah, right. Wal-Mart is making tons of cash BECAUSE of the American way of life.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm NOT a fan of Wal-Mart. Mainly because it's not worth wading through hoardes of unwashed Americans in sweat pants, down their narrow, dirty isles (eisles? eyeslieyes? I dunno) to stand in their 30 minute lines just so I can save a buck or two on a canned ham. But anyway, here's the gloom and doom-all I gotta do is hit 'forward' and send it on email that I got the other day. Didn't make me hate Wal-Mart any more or less, but did make me wonder if people actually think before they send these on their merry way to gum up my inbox.

For some reason when anyone talks about things like this I think
that the next villain for James Bond will be the CEO of WalMart...

--HOW BIG IS WAL-MART? This should boggle your mind (and scare you
too)!

• 1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every
  day.
• 2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
• 3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day
  (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
• 4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears
  + Costco + K-Mart combined.
• 5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest
  private employer. And most can't speak English
• 6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the
  World.
• 7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway
  combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.
• 8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought
  bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).
• 9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the
  world.
• 10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906
  are S uperCenters; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
• 11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will
  occur at a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5
  billion.)
• 12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a
  Wal-Mart
• 13. Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street!
  

Stupid is as stupid does.

7% of all your emails are important. 13% are irrelevant, but funny. Another 13% are sexually related - "I love you, check out my website" and prescription offers. 14% are some sort of scam and 17% are some sort of chain email (the last person who broke this chain was George W Bush, look what happened to him). The last 36% are total bullshit. Of this type I write tonight.

I got an email from a coworker today, warning me about giving gift cards for Christmas. It told of several companies that were holding off closing their doors and going bankrupt until after the Christmas season so they could sell a bunch of worthless gift cards. The email named over a dozen companies, including Sprint, Dell, Ethan Allen and Rite Aid.

For the love of God, would you people please quit believing everything that is sent to you in your inbox!

I'm not talking to those of you who hit DELETE when you see this propaganda, and fortunately that includes most of you that I choose to associate with. But there are a few acquaintances and coworkers that insist on forwarding every warning, every threat, every support our troops and every "the end of the world is near because a Democrat is going to be president" email that you get.

It's not all true. People are lying to you to either put forth their agenda or just because they think it is funny that so many morons fall for this garbage.

Count me out, take me off your list. Unless you have researched it and found there to be some truth to it, don't clog up my inbox or brain with it.

Thanks. And have a good day.