It is wise to remember how easily this
wonderful technoogy can be misused, sometimes
unintentionally, with serious consequences.
Consider the case of the llinois man who left
the snow-filled street of Chicago for a
vacation in Florida.
His wife was on a
business trip and was planning to meet him
there the next day. When he reached his
hotel, he decited to send his wife a quick
e-mail. Unable to find the scrap of paper on
which he had written her e-mail adress, he
did his best to type it in from memory.
Unfortunately, he missed one letter and his
note was directed instead to an elderly
preacher's wife whose husband had passed away
only the day before. When the grieving widow
checked her e-mail, she took one look at the
monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell
to the floor in a dead faint.
At the
sound, her family rushed into the room and
saw this note on the screen:
DEAREST WIFE:
JUST GOT CHECKED IN. EVERYTHING PREPARED FOR YOUR ARRIVAL TOMORROW.
P.S. SURE IS HOT DOWN HERE.
