The Daily Plunge

At my current place of employment I have become the email catch all. I’m the guy who gets the email when someone decides to send a general email to .com. This means I wade through hundreds of junk emails every morning. It’s annoying especially on Monday mornings, but someone has got to do it. Today it all changed. Some pretty girl out there decided to email me from an internet café. Here is what I received.

—–Original Message—–
From: Cameron [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:18 PM
Subject: going out with you

Hire,
i am here sitting in the internet caaffe. Found your e!mail and decided to write. I might be coming to your place in 14 days, so I decided to email you. May be we can meet? I am 25 y.o. girl. I have a picture if you want. No neead to reply here as this is not my email. a

Write me at [email protected]

How sweet and there’s no doubt in my mind that this kind of correspondence is legit. I’m a nice looking enough guy to pull in this kind of random email (if you haven’t caught on to the sarcasm of this entry yet I feel sorry for you). It wouldn’t be the first time some random person has sent me and email or an IM. If I’m lucky (or unlucky) maybe this will be the beginning of a beautiful relationship. Without even thinking I sent a response. I can’t let her get restless, she’ll be here in a couple of weeks.

—–Original Message—–
From: Michael
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 2:58 PM
To: ‘[email protected]’
Subject: RE: going out with you

This is great! I can’t wait to meet you. It’s so funny you just stumbled across my email address like that. It must be fate; I don’t have any reservations at all about this sort of thing. Do you need any money? By all means send pictures!

I can’t wait to hear from you,
Michael

Now the waiting begins. I can’t wait to see what she has to say. I wonder what she looks like. If she happens to send photographs I’ll be happy to post them. However I have this sinking feeling like if they do come they won’t be appropriate. Better yet, they’ll probably be some cost involved in sending the picture. Of course I’ll pay whatever nominal fee it is to see the picture because I’d have to be insane to meet this person without knowing what she looks like. Yes, I’m that shallow. Frankly she has to be attractive because her grammar is positively atrocious.