Anybody with a computer and an email address will at one point have received a mail where in the end it will urge you to forward it to a number of your friends and good things will happen, the intimation being that if you don't, bad things will happen.
I have always refused to do this; I will not be party to this kind of scam but maybe, just maybe, there is something to it.
I certainly have had my share of unpleasantnesses
so when Alice called all excited about a big order that Christa had landed form Nordstrom and claimed that she was sure, almost, that it was due to her forwarding some mail that promised good luck and fortune, I thought that I might have to revise my thinking about this matter.
And then I thought again and
no
I will not bother others with that kind of junk.
I will bother them with my laments--like this one--but not with those thinly veiled threats and pathetic promises of good fortune.
There I said it.