Urban legend emails

What are your thoughts about forwarding/deleting good luck/bad luck emails (i.e. urban legend chain emails).  Example: I get an email from one of my friends.  Says to read the story then look at the photo.  The story goes on to say that the photo is of a young boy who asked his friend to take a picture of him at a certain spot, The young boy whose photo was being taken screamed and fainted and 2 days later died of a heart attack.  When the film was developed it showed this boy (actually looks like a teenager of Asian decent) and there stood a ghost next to him.  The email goes on about how some man received this email forwarded it to 13 friends and received all this good luck and stated another man just deleted it and his whole life was ruined. 

I'm thinking how gullible are these people.  Also I'm looking at the pic and the ghost is definitely from some horror movie I've seen before (maybe The Ring).  Can't quite place it but I know I've seen it somewhere before, which I think I've seen this boy before too in some other picture.  So I'm thinking how silly are these people (which by the way my freind sent to to exactly 13 people).  So I look up the place called Sundarbans and this is some urban legend.  If you put that name in Google up pops a picture of the boy and the so called ghost.

What I'm wondering is how many of you out there actually forward on emails like this believing that you just might have good luck (you know, things like win a bunch of money, get the raise you've been asking for or a promotion, they guy you've been wanting to date mysteriously calls you, or you are offered free chocolate the rest of your life)  HA HA, and how many of you just delete them.  I am one who deletes them, and it irritates me to no end that my friends go and include me in part of their montage of people they are emailing, so now all their friends have my email ID.  I guess I'm supposed to be obligated to send this email to 13 of my friends or else I become afflicted with some sort of bad luck.  What is even worse than this kind of email are the so called "religious - good luck emails (i.e. I'm sending you this Angel to watch over you, she was sent to me by my good friend and I usually don't forward these things but my friend wouldn't lie about where it came from and she received the promotion she had always been wanting, blah, blah, blah!

So just curious if any of you out there are as annoyed at these kind of emails than I am.  I know I could very nicely tell her to please not send me any more of these emails (which most of them I just delete anyway as soon as I see the word "Fw:" in the email address), but I don't want to hurt her feelings.  I don't believe in any of that stuff.  Maybe I will try searching for an article about urban legend emails and how if you just delete them nothing bad is going to happen.

On another note, I too have been caught up in the "send this email to all your friends and you will receive 12 days of good luck".  Can't tell you how many of those emails I have forwarded on in my time (mostly religious emails) and never once has any good luck been bestowed upon me because of it.  Who knows....maybe "The Big Man upstairs" (as my sister refers to him) gets annoyed that people are exploiting him like this.

• Urban legend emails - ermt
  • All forwards I put in the trash folder immediately even if I know the person. - mt2
  • I never forward things based on threats or promises of luck. (sm) - Carolina MT
  • I am (annoyed)! Especially the ones - Me
  • answers to chain letters. - Texas girl
    • oh Texas girl, you made me laugh! - sm
    • ROFLMAO..... - NM
    • OMG - too funny - ermt
  • Sorry - I forgot to add this - ermt
  • I found her - ermt
    • I don't believe in the good/bad luck stuff with these but - by

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Did you ever get an email where it says to forward it to 5 people and watch the screen for something funny or cool?  I get these a lot and nothing ever happens on my screen when I forward them to the said number of people.  Is it just a scam to get you to forward it or is my computer blocking the image I'm supposed to see? 

I'm not talking about the emails where you forward it to 10 people in 10 minutes and wait for the phone ring. 

this has gone on for a few years now, either she wants to know me or not. One thing is for certain, she sure isn't getting all my information without giving something back. If she wants to meet face to face that's fine with me and if not, that's fine too. While I have curiosity, I don't spend my time wallowing in what could have, should have or would have been. That chapter of my life has been closed for many, many years and frankly the curiosity fades more and more with time.

something good will happen to you in the next 30 minutes.  I absolutely hate those!  No offense to those who happily forward them whenever you get them, they just clog up my inbox and annoy me to death.  I'd rather my friends just email me and let me know what's going on with them.  I don't need some teary inspirational story to forward to the people I care about so I can be blessed.

Work related peeves - doctors who practically whisper when they dictate!

received regarding "how I'm doing, etc." I thought I'd give a quick update. Thank you all so much for your kindness and caring for a total stranger and her family.It means so much to me that others are thinking of me.

I ended up going to an ER and they prescribed Cymbalta and Xanax. Didn't the Xanax filled. I have no intentions of zoning out on Xanax. All I need is to become addicted to something.

I am not too happy with the Cymbalta. We didn't even discuss Cymbalta. We discussed another med, but I can't think of which antidepressant it was, but it wasn't that. Was surprised when I got it filled what he prescribed.

In any event, I have good days and bad days. Got a 2 week work excuse which I haven't abided by yet, either. I feel work keeps me grounded. I may still use it. I do need to focus and deal with my grief. I haven't done that yet. Been too busy. I like busy. Busy doesn't hurt.

Love to everyone here. Love is all that matters now. Love is all we need.