If
you don’t forward this . . .
By CHRIS SMITH
To whom it may
concern,
I
have a friend who has a friend who heard from her third cousin, who just
happens to know someone, who knew someone that heard that people should stop
sending ridiculous e-mail threats involving everything. How many times have you gotten a letter
in your e-mail box that a friend has sent to you telling you not to do this or
that you have to do that.
People,
please stop the insanity. I cannot
remember the countless times over the past weeks that I have received threats
in an e-mail telling me that I should not go to the carwash on the third day of
the fourth month for fear that the garden gnomes would be kidnapping anyone who
attempts to use the tire brush there.
This
is a very volatile time for our nation; we surely have enough to worry about in
our lives without creating more trauma and worry because a friend of a friend
told you something that must be true because they heard it from someone who
just happened to know the people who knew the people who were involved with the
whole thing.
If
you get one of these, please delete it.
Don’t forward it to anyone.
Let the people who tell the news for a living do their
jobs—it’s why they get paid.
Thank you in advance.
And,
if you get the chance, please forward this message to 10 of your friends in
five minutes, or else the garden gnomes will be looking for you.
Sincerely,
A concerned
citizen