11 Awkward Things About Email
Email is one of those things that's just a part of your life, period. Most of us know someone who has closed their Facebook account or refused to join in the first place in a little foot-stomping stand by their ego, and you might even know someone who is thrilled with themselves for not owning a smartphone.
But within the adult internet-using world, no one is allowed to not have email.
Not having email today would be the equivalent of not having a phone number—you'd have to be really doing your own thing to go there.
And so here we all are, typing things into compose windows, battling down our inboxes, and it's going pretty well—but like any world of social interaction, email has its difficulties.
Let's discuss 11 particularly awkward things about our email lives—
1) Exchanges that have an unequal power dynamic.
If someone you're emailing with:
- is making typos and you're not
- is skipping punctuation and you're not
- is skipping capitals and you're not
- is taking a long time to reply and you're not
- is responding to your long, well-written emails with much shorter responses
Then you're their bitch.
Unequal email power dynamics can happen for many reasons—a professional ladder discrepancy, an age discrepancy, a "customer's always right" situation, a thing where many people are all emailing one person—but usually, it's that the person writing the high-quality email wants/needs something from the person writing the low-quality email. Simple as that.
2) Emailing with un-tech savvy Baby Boomers.
Not all Baby Boomers—you know who I'm talking about.
They're the last remaining people with AOL email addresses. They scan a hard copy of an article and email it as an attachment instead of emailing a link to the article. They write the word e-mail with a hyphen in it. And they don't know that "replying to all" is a thing that can happen in the world:
Sometimes, you'll come across the especially un-tech savvy Baby Boomer who inexplicably writes their emails in all caps.
3) Emailing with anyone born before 1930.
To my grandmother, who tells me that her "machine is broken" when the browser window has accidentally been minimized, words like "forward" and "attachment" and "link" don't have simple, concrete definitions—they're just vague, complex ideas that she's heard of but doesn't understand.
She feels about email the way I feel about this sentence:
Central banks in developing countries are tightening policy and intervening in currency markets in response to concerns about the potential effect of currency depreciation on inflation, though gross issuance of nonfinancial corporate bonds and commercial paper have slowed and interest volatility has substantially diminished, possibly suggesting that reaching-for-yield behavior might be increasing again.
If you weren't far too lazy to write a letter, it would be a good idea to stick to hand-written correspondence with people born in the 1920s, especially since there's the side benefit that a letter from someone born in the 1920s will be a cool thing to own in 50 years.
4) The group email chain Late Responder.
5) Figuring out how to address a minor friend in an email greeting.
To make things easy, we at some point all agreed upon certain rules and regulations for how to address various categories of people that we email.
Notice the problem?
"Hi ____" is friendly in a distant, neutral, professional way for everyone you don't know well. When your relationship with someone takes a step forward, it graduates to the warmer, more casual Hey Zone. And with really close people, you can just skip the greeting altogether—no one starts an email with "Hey Mom".
But how about that green zone category of people who are more than acquaintances—so greeting them with "Hey" would seem too formal and distant—but you don't talk to them enough to just out of the blue email them and start talking without a greeting? How the hell are you supposed to start an email to that friend from college you talk to every two years or that old work colleague you became friends with and then fell mostly out of touch with?
It's not easy. And unlike all the other greetings, this one requires creativity. Some possibilities:
- Hey John! — The exclamation point says, "This isn't a normal Hey greeting—I'm smiling and extra excited because we're pretty close, and our relationship is a positive thing in my life."
- Johnny! — A typical response greeting to the "Hey John!" email. It's acknowledging that you're on nickname terms, and also joining the celebration of your friendship with the exclamation point.
- Hey man — This is something guy acquaintances or minor friends do to deal with being in the green zone. It's the greeting version of a friendly back slap.
- Sammmm — A girl tool to deal with the green zone.
- Hey man — This is something guy acquaintances or minor friends do to deal with being in the green zone. It's the greeting version of a friendly back slap.
- Sammmm — A girl tool to deal with the green zone.
- Heyyy — The extra Y's say, "Just swinging by to say something, and we're friends so sometimes we just swing by.
5b) Figuring out how to sign-off in an email to a minor friend.
Similar situation. For the distant people, we have all sorts of autofills—Best, Regards, Talk soon, Take care, Thanks, etc.—and the really close people need no sign-off at all. But for minor friends, we've got another whole song and dance on our hands.
I'll sometimes finish a minor friend email with something like, "Thanks," and then look at it and think, "Ugh it's too formal." I then sigh, put the cursor at the end of the word, and begrudgingly type in two more S's.
It's also worth noting that some people have decided that xoxo is an appropriate sign off because they're just that adorable, and others just decided to start signing off with only the first letter of their name, because apparently we're now dating. To me, both sign-offs make me think the person looks like this when they're typing it:
6) Saying Robot Phrases, which reminds you that you're not actually that unique a person.
A Robot Phrase is a commonly used email phrase that you end up using just because everyone else is using it and you're not that creative a person.
These cookie-cutter Robot Phrases remind me of my voicemail recording being "Hi, you've reached Tim. Please leave a message." The next thing that comes on is an actual robot that says "At the tone, please record your message yada yada," and she and I are doing an equal job of expressing our individuality—but unfortunately, the only other option is to be an unnecessary weirdo by doing something surprising.
Email Robot Phrases are not quite as socially required as Voicemail Robot Recordings, but most of us are too lazy to deal with thinking up alternatives. Every single time I type one, though, I feel a slight twinge of self-loathing for being such a societal cog.
7) Mastering the exclamation point chess match.
With in-person interaction, we have a million subtle ways to express tone. Even on the phone, without the use of facial expressions or mannerisms, tone of voice gets the job done sufficiently.
But over email, we're stuck with a crude set of symbols as our tools to express nuance, making punctuation a critical part of the email world. A few guidelines:
Some people don't use exclamation points, and with those people, it's safe to stick with periods.
Others use them constantly, and with those people you're a huge dick if you don't, so you're forced to join the party.
This is important because to a rampant exclamation point user, the difference between a period and an exclamation point looks like this.
There's also the rare but disastrous exclamation point / question mark mixup typo.
I can go either way with exclamation points and tend to just follow the other person's lead, but I find that this is a pretty strong correlation:
Ellipses are a whole other thing. Some people use them to be mysterious or threatening, and of course, they can be massively slutty.
8) The epic correspondence that neither involved party wants to be a part of.
This is a very odd phenomenon unique to email. It happens when two not-that-good friends find themselves stuck in the mutually-obligated chore of writing long descriptions of their lives to each other every few months. Both parties dread having to answer all the last email's questions and write a lengthy life description, and each is pretty bored by the process of reading the other's.
This cycle either goes on until one of the people dies, or sometimes, someone finally gathers the guts to just not respond to the other's email and then both parties can sigh a deep breath of relief.
9) Trying to shove the concept of laughter into the email medium.
Laughter is a delightful part of vocal correspondence, so we've decided we need to figure out a way to express the same thing over email—but it's awkward.
Absurd people who say lol aside, here's what we're dealing with:
haha — I found this either mildly funny or not funny at all
hahaha — I found this a little funny
hahahaha — I found this reasonably funny
HA or HAHA or HAHAHAHA — I found this very funny
hahah or hahahah — I'm a very subpar human
At least in my world, I find that when something is actually funny, it'll result in capital letters.
And in almost all of these cases, the recipient pictures the sender actually laughing as they type, when in fact they probably look like the guy in the picture above.
10) The fact that hurtful things are happening to you and you're not thinking about it.
Being humored by fake haha's is just the beginning.
You know how people sometimes BCC someone on an email they're writing to secretly loop them in? You know what you don't consider? The times when you've received an email from someone and there's a BCC happening unbeknownst to you—when you're the chump being spied on. Kind of upsetting right?
How about the fact that you're part of a number of group email chains, some one-time things and some that are recurring—and you kind of just assume that those are the only group chains happening. When in fact, there are a number of group chains between various friends or family members of yours that you are not included on, whose existence you never really consider.
Worse, think about a time you've forwarded an email you received to someone else for mocking purposes. Kind of mean, but you've also kind of done it right? How shitty is it that at some point, you've been the subject of the secret mocking forward?
Luckily, we tend to avoid assuming these things are happening. But they're happening.
11) Email disasters.
The email disaster is a special kind of disaster. It can be mortifying, hurtful, or even friendship-damaging.
Examples include:
- Emailing Person X to say something bad about Person Y and accidentally emailing it to Person Y instead.
- Replying just to Person X on a group chain to say something private and accidentally replying to all.
- Forwarding an email to someone and forgetting that below the email is a whole correspondence chain that has something sensitive in it, maybe even about the person you just forwarded it to.
- Sending an attachment to someone and accidentally attaching the wrong horrifying thing.
Other people's email disaster stories are a great source of schadenfreude—so if you have a good one, please share in the comments.
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Wow, this post worth the waiting, it's huge, I'll leave it for later and read it in my other black playground
ReplyDelete"haha"
ReplyDeleteI'll just print this out so I can read it
ReplyDeleteI BCC my spouse on a application/cover letter to a job. He replied all (habit from work) with Fuck that guy, he has a douchey name.
ReplyDeleteforwarding a message to someone to complain about the content in the original message, but accidentally using "reply" instead of "forward".
ReplyDeleteThis was the most enjoyable read ever in the world.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I am telling my Gran about it.
DeleteHAHAHA - WBW strikes again. Good one, Tim!
ReplyDeleteThose drawings have me pissing my pants. Best one was the last one.
ReplyDelete"HAHAHAH"
ReplyDeleteYou described my baby boomer mother to a T. AOL, e-mail with a hyphen, never replying to all. It's funny that that's a "category" of people, not just my mom.
ReplyDeleteMy dad is exactly like that. I laughed so much I had to leave my desk at the office.
DeleteHAHAHA. I work for a #2.
ReplyDeletegood articel
ReplyDeleteI think I use too many exclamation points. I love that you capture what we are all thinking when we send emails... (slutty or trailing off? You'll never know.)
ReplyDeletejust sent it to everyone i know...
ReplyDeleteI wrote a short one line email telling my future husband he was the "love of my life" accidentally sending it to another person in my email address list with the same first name - a work colleague.
ReplyDeletePriceless!
DeleteI didn't have a printer at home and sent a quick email with attachment to my boyfriend: "hey babe, can you print this?"
ReplyDeleteThe reply was instant: "?????" And then I realized I had emailed my old stick in the mud boss instead. I hope he laughed it off after my apology/explanation, but I couldn't be sure. Damn autofill!
A nice thing to try in place of laughing with "haha" is to use a variety of different words in asterisks to denote an action. For example, try something like *chortle* to indicate a chortle like laugh, or the desire to have chortled at the posted text without having actually chortled.
DeleteOr complete stage directions. *laughs like elephant in heat while walking backwards*
Deleteheh...
ReplyDeleteNot a nightmare scenario as such, but a nightmare category I call the 'heat seeker'. This is the special type of person in the workplace - and you can SEE them do it! - who send you an email and then get up and walk over to you and hover over you saying "did you get it?" "Get what?", I say knowingly. And then you pretty much sit there while you wait for their email to land - meanwhile they're having a good look at your inbox. You open their email and they read it out to you.
ReplyDeleteI mean, seriously..?!?!
haha. I found this either mildly funny or not funny at all.
DeleteYES. I work with a person just like this and cannot begin to use enough swear words to describe incredibly annoying it is. It's a total time suck. This particular colleague composes the email, sends it, comes around the corner to my office to inform me that they sent an email, waits for me to read the email, and then stands next to me to discuss it................. AND I then respond via email to maintain documentation of any decisions made. Oh, and whatever I'd been working before this debacle, is completely abandoned mid-thought/sentence while this stupid charade goes on. Not that I'm bitter about it or anything.
DeleteI have a co-worker who does this CONSTANTLY. I've now learned to say "Nope, didn't see it yet, I've got about 100 emails that I haven't read yet. I'll let you know when I get to yours." And then I turn my back to him until he goes away.
DeleteMy past office job: http://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Office-Nemesis_edit3-3.jpg
DeleteExcept he wasn't my Nemesis, he was my boss. No cats on the wall, just biblical images. No nemesis-in-training, just me to get 100% of his attention. He tried to set me up with 'nice young men' form his church when I already own a house with my boyfriend, whom he had even met at the Christmas party (NOT holiday party). I started a twitter account just to vent about him. I jumped ship after 4 years and have been so so so happily self-employed since.
My God number 1 is so spot on. I have been in that position so many times that I finally stopped giving a shit about being too polite.
ReplyDeleteYou neglected the "Aa First" laugh: Aahahaha! Adding an A or two in there before the haha really seems to take the laugh up a notch. Otherwise, so spot on!!
ReplyDeleteI always use "haha" and never in caps. I still use "Lol" for special circumstances (when something is truly funny ;))
ReplyDeleteYup. Same here. Always lower case "haha", never anything else, regardless of my actual level of amusement.
DeleteYou are seriously good at what you do. I'm going to print this out, scan it, and send it to all my friends.
ReplyDeleteReferencing number 5 here. I hate people who start emails with "Hi". I especially find it weird in a professional setting. Just put their name and a comma. You can use this with any of your four groups. Done.
ReplyDeleteActually, a lot of people find that somewhat abrupt if not rude. That said, it's used a lot in the business/professional world. The old standby (throwback? :) ) "Dear" is probably best for more formal correspondence.
DeleteI personally find "Dear" to be antiquated and even jarring. In all my correspondence, I almost always use "First name," or "Hi First name,". Very occasionally I will just do "Hi,". Most people use the same introductions on their emails to me. I'm not sure where you get the idea that a lot of people find that abrupt/rude, but I certainly don't and there is no indication that my email correspondants do either.
DeleteWhat happened to Hello, _______, ?
DeleteMine is usually a good morning, afternoon or evening and the name with a comma. Professional yet considerate.
DeleteI disagree re: listing names, for me it brings up pecking order questions, I'm always afraid someone is going to get offended that I've listed someone else's name first. There's no good way to do it that I can think of. I do a "Hello everyone" or "Hello all" or something similar depending on the group.
DeleteI don't mind 'guys' but sincerely objected to 'Gents' as a group email greeting.
DeleteI don't know how old you people are, but I'm a college professor in my 30s and I find it ridiculous when students address me with "Hi" the first time they are contacting me. It's not cool. I never do it when I address them or others (professors or otherwise). The first contact should always ALWAYS have "Dear" when you don't know someone. Email is not a face-to-face conversation. The first exchange is like a letter, and some respect is necessary. I refused a student into my class once because her first email just launched in: Hi, I'm on the wait list. I would really like to take this course. etc.
DeleteSounds like entitlement to me. I thought the whole graphic above about hi vs hey missed the ball on this. And of course, I am not alone. I've talked to several people about this. Maybe amongst rising teenagers this might change. But so too will spelling out words (u vs you). So if you're a teenager in this comment section just know that you won't be scoring points with those older than you anytime soon if you stick to the hi and hey convention.
I'm a 52 year old university professor, and I don't see anything wrong with initial emails from students that say "Hi, I'm on the waiting list.."
DeleteAt my company, everyone uses Hi, name, in emails.
DeleteI'm also a prof and get all sorts of greeting-- and I'm fine with any of them. What I get upset about is the messages that are dashed off without any editing and are riddled with spelling and punctuation mistakes. You're in an English class, right? You better figure your professor cares about language. Think about audience, please.
DeleteThat is Quite Funny
DeleteLOL...
ReplyDeleteHave you ever read the garbage articles on the "Wait But Why" blog? I'm not sure if they are supposed to be funny or serious, but they all read like 2nd grade book reports complete with stick men. I highly recommend you don't subject yourself to ever visiting that site.
ReplyDeleteOh god! That was totally supposed to go on another comment section.
ReplyDeleteWell done Slytherin. Well done Slytherin.
DeleteI was Greg once. A nasty little email where my former roommate described in detail why she couldn't stand my boyfriend spending time at our shared apartment. This email was sent to my entire group of girlfriends. I think the picture of Greg should include Greg looking like he just got punched in the stomach.
ReplyDeleteI love this! Please do one on text messages!
ReplyDeleteMy younger brother accidentally included my mom's and my email addresses when sending a late-night drunken missive to his college roommates all about his latest sexual conquests, full of macho braggadocio and unnecessary sexy details. Really wish I hadn't seen that one.
ReplyDeleteAs for myself, I've "recycled" letters to various friends -- acting as if I were writing a thoughtful, newsy email solely for that person -- only to have one of the recipients reply to me with the original included, cc'ing everyone else in the group, thereby showcasing my laziness and mild duplicity to everyone who thought they'd received a unique letter. Certainly not the worst that could happen, but yet another email peril!
Yeah good one. I've both gotten caught doing that and caught people doing that. It shouldn't be a big deal but it kind of is.
DeleteJust make sure the first three sentences and the last one before signing are personal, and put "And here is my news" or whatever before the pasted text.
DeleteSo was I the only one who copied "schadenfreude" into Google in the hope of being enlightened? (thank you wikipedia!) and BTW, thank you Facebook for giving us a heads up before we post a comment with the red underline! bwahaha :) Bel
ReplyDeleteYou forgot the amazing work email when you write a perfect email describing your master piece, but you forget the attachment. So, you go home happy with your job done and you realize that next day :/
ReplyDeleteI'm brazilian, so I laugh hauauhauhahauhua
ReplyDeleteor HAUHAHAUHAUHAUA
Excellent post, btw!
ReplyDeleteMy baby boomer Dad will only reply to polar questions via text message or email.
ReplyDeleteAlso, in Australia a very common email sign off (regardless of familiarity to the recipient) is "Cheers".
What is a "polar" question? Never heard of that. I'm thinking, something about Antarctica, which might be a well-known vacation spot for Australians?
DeleteCheers.
A yes-no question.
DeleteThere is one category 11 I think you left out - intentional e-mail* disasters. Maybe an 11b, eh?
ReplyDeleteAs a grad student, I was in a national political geography list-serve - at the time (90s), the list-serves were still kind of new and people didn't really control them well. (note to the kids: these were the tweets of the nineties, essentially).
So, about five times a week all of the political geographers in the country (professors, students, lecturers, non-academic followers, etc.) got an e-mail about what some political geographer was doing or some meeting that was being organized. Well, at some point, person A crossed person B, leading to person B writing to person A, in a *private* e-mail, "...well you don't have to be a f*cking c*nt about it."
Not a very professional or academic thing to write. So, the recipient of the c-bomb, person A, responded *TO THE ENTIRE LISTSERVE* with a nice little passive-aggressive response like "well, you don't have to be rude about it," and including all the private correspondence in it. There might be 300-400 academic political geographers in the county; it's not a huge group of people and if you want a job in the field, it's not super swell to have all of them read your nastiness. Ouch...
* (PS: I am not a baby boomer, but rather a strong believer in hyphens...)
Yeah, this type of passive-aggression happened JUST LAST MONTH in a Google group I'm in (of environmentalist women, if you can believe it).
DeleteAmazing story. Person A comes off worse, but it's also kind of an awesome move.
DeleteI'm also disappointed at the lack of details in Anonymous #2's story.
Thoughts on Forwarding etiquette?
ReplyDeleteYou have an informal private email chain with a professional contact who then decides to 'consult' everyone else at work by forwarding your informal, misspelled, non-capitalized opinions to the whole office.
OK or not?
Ugh, that frustrates me! NOT OK. At work, I've just decided anything can be forwarded at any time and try to make everything professional-quality. Which obviously takes up most of my day. SIGH.
DeleteEmail disaster - matt wood (friend), matt woods (client), not paying attention to dropdown contact list... you can figure the rest out.
ReplyDeleteMy boss's wife was Sandra and he emailed me Sa----- instead of her quite often. He also wrote whole emails in all caps in the subject line.
DeleteSomeone sent an email to a wrong distribution list, and followed by hundreds email replies with "PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO ALL!!"
ReplyDeletelol
ReplyDeleteCategory 09: What about "lol", "lmao", etc. ?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I agree, what's wrong with lol? It's so much simpler than having to figure out exactly what form of onomatopoeia to use.
DeleteI'd like to add No. 12
ReplyDeleteThose that come into your office immediately after sending an email to say "I've just sent you an email" !! HaHa
Or in a shared office - "I'm just sending you an email about xyz" while they're typing it! Seriously, you cant just turn your chair around and have a conversation with me?
DeleteEmail accidents - In the heat of anger, sending an email to my boyfriend saying "my boss is such a fool, he has no idea what he is doing", sending it to my boss not my boyfriend... Then having to do the walk of shame to my bosses desk to explain why he was a fool, why I needed to tell other people that he was a fool, and how I thought I could do things better...
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to good manners? This is just so precious. How to greet and sign off in written communication was worked out a long time ago - way before Baby Boomers. Sure, things have progressed (a little) and it is possible to be casual and a little ironic but this is a manual for navel gazing. This internet generation is so inside itself it has forgotten how to look outward and not be so damn self-conscious.
ReplyDeleteNo time for that. 100 more emails to answer.
Delete"Central banks in developing countries are tightening policy and intervening in currency markets in response to concerns about the potential effect of currency depreciation on inflation, though gross issuance of nonfinancial corporate bonds and commercial paper have slowed and interest volatility has substantially diminished, possibly suggesting that reaching-for-yield behavior might be increasing again."
ReplyDeleteYou probably should figure out what that means and understand it.
#1 drives me especially crazy because I'm a good typist with fairly decent spelling, grammar and punctuation, and sloppy emails are seen as somehow more youthful and breezy and cool. On occasion I have actually resorted to inserting a typo or two on purpose just to avoid coming across as too Little Miss Perfect.
ReplyDeleteMe too! I've also done that when I don't want to seem like I care *too much* about a particular email chain, when in fact I do!
DeleteAfter read the article, it is almost an obligation to spend sometime on the comments too....hahaha...hilarious!
ReplyDeleteIt didn't happen to me ... but one morning I arrived at work to find that a chain mail had gone around the world (70k employees) in our organisation with this list of Indian names (we had a large Indian presence) and in the middle one western name stuck out with "gee this is fun" as the message. I looked up the western name in the directory and it was a graduate development student - not the best way to impress your boss there.
ReplyDeleteHaven't seen it here but my "grist" is with people who "love" to "sprinkle" the "quote" symbol around "random" words all through their "emails". WTF, man? What kind of weird "effect" are they trying to "make"?
ReplyDeleteI always appreciate a WBW email every Tuesday! Thanks, Tim.
My mom was born in the 20s and unfortunately almost kind of sort of knows how to use email but not very well. She can't see very well so she likes to print every email, then she leaves them lying around the house so everyone can read them. She also doesn't know or notice that the whole email conversation will be printed along with her email, and this can lead to some awful and hurtful things. The worst was when I emailed her the name we chose for my new baby, and she left a print of an email she'd written to someone about what a bad name it was and how she hated it on the kitchen table. She's known for her tactlessness anyway but email has made her supersonically so! Thanks for the great article.
ReplyDeleteouch!! but maybe don't read things laying around the house?
DeleteHow about when all you want to do is share a link with someone (say, to a hilarious blog post such as this one) and don't really have anything else to say. But in this day and age, you can't just send someone a random link or they'll avoid it like the plague ... (or a virus). So now I'm forced with coming up with creative ways to make it obvious that yes, the real me (and yes, I'm clean!) has something interesting to share with you!
ReplyDeleteGoogle Labs has a nice feature you can add, where you can recall e-mails after you hit send-- of course, it's only helpful if you catch your error right away. There have definitely been several times when I've sent an e-mail without an attachment, forgot to CC someone and had to type up an entire follow-up/apology/explanation e-mail as a result, etc.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I'm in my twenties, but I still use the hyphen in "e-mail." :-/
What a load of crap. I use email every day and it is not awkward and people on the other end don't feel like my bitches because I can write well or have a better vocabulary. Only some Gen y moron would make up this garbage and only some Gen y moron would read it and agree.... Gen y, the 21st century morons!
ReplyDeleteI think you brushed over the overuse of ellipses and the confusion they can cause...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/07/ellipses_why_so_common_what_are_they_really_for.html?wpisrc=most_viral
Also, I second the cry to do one of these about text messages. My mom signs most of her texts, "Love, Mom" and has recently discovered emoticons.
There's also the auto-correct mishaps. I had sent an email to a patient wanting to say that I left you a v/m (voice mail), but instead the auto correct sent it as I left you a BM.
ReplyDeleteI'm a Boomer. It's true that I can identify fellow Boomers if they have an AOL email address. Now that I do swipe writing on my mobile device, I've jettisoned the use of the hyphen in email. However, I still use words like jettison. ROTFLMAO
ReplyDeleteLate response! HA
DeleteI actually do look like 5b and sign personal emails xoxo C
ReplyDeleteso awesome
The reason the person that emails 'Hilarious!' with a big delay is awkward is because his response time implies that he is busier or has more serious things on his or her mind than the rest of the email's recipients.
ReplyDeleteMy godmother uses a lot of butter when she makes mashed potatoes. She once met the King of Belgium at a fancy ball.
ReplyDeleteReplyallcalypse: http://www.buzzfeed.com/atmccann/what-happened-when-nyu-students-discovered-they-co
ReplyDeleteHilarious!
ReplyDelete