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i am a customer service rep for an online site that provides information to people that are either expecting a child or have kids under the age of 8. my job is to answer emails from our registered members. the content of the emails i receive varies from account related issues (my password needs to be changed, i didn't get my newsletter, etc.) to requests for assistance regarding medical issues and the like.

because i often can't believe what i read, i decided that i should share some of the funnier and more frightening examples. remember these emails are all from the folks responsible for raising the children of our future. lord help us.


Email #1
if i accidentally swallowed a small plastic thing i was trying to pull of my blouse. Will it hurt the baby.

metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn thats funny. 'BUT THE BABEY IS IN MY STOMAK;

I look forward to further posts.

bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I forgot to mention - the comedy is enhanced if you read each email slowly so that you don't miss any of the spelling/grammatical errors.

metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

more more more!

don (don), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Email #2
Hi
I am very scared because i might be pregnant as during heavy petting my bf ejaculated on the mouth of my virgina and I am deeply worried that i might have conceived as it is possible that sperm can swim from the outside to the inside.
Please confirm whether this is fact.

metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

/me dies

dean!dean!dean (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Virginia is for lovers

Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Your job sounds similar to my job. Do you ever get any absolute batshit crazy e-mails, like this one:

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Pro se es 2003 @ 15 0215 d'hors @-0600 G. M. T.
U. S. A. Pro se es se e'ta pro tort lis pro ratium pro lis pare te en pro tort addemis pare te en pro lis addiem lis to es d'hors lieu et conscious vie ad crepe` juris ad to lis es contut et pare te affiliate es con es criminal en criminal lis. Nomanae es via Unoted States of America. A se res adjuris lieu et Schweitzer'lec de contanimant es contagent et contimant contend es idid para ingermination culture de contortion es en par list es contaminant od en containment es plague.
Pro se Missouri State non drivers license number --------
U. S. A. coutry code __ telephone area code es (314)- telephone number es
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Pro se pro ratiem pro lis pare te es d'hors @-0600 G. M. T.
United States country code __ telephone area code(314) telephone number -------- d'hors es en lieu @ 15-08-08
Missouri State non Drivers License Number ----------
United States country code __ telephone area code(314) telephone number -------
RE: Epoch lode es pro pare te en acru d'accord reign et adjuris de corporal punaitive list es et conscious de pare te id es adhors es en juris ad lieu vie enpare es acru es mass regulae vie reclez' en apartheid pare te id es adhuris lieu.
Dear Sir and Madam:Pro se espionage epoch es lode et conscious acru epoch en epoch lode es en contut en pare te es addiem lis to juris ad lieu es adjuris lieiu et warrant summaries et con es criminal en criminal leis de contempt de punintive penal lis es adjuris lieu.
D'accord es et germination lis adden to es et acru id pare te reign vie od pare te .
Nomenae es cran nee lis japon
Michael Joseph Kostecki
Lectricite. Tote es duty summaries.Fin. Latineuse et ingles I must have been affected with an airborn contanimant and as I was injured all sorts of matter in material both physically impairing means are of biological and chemical nature actual contanimant substance nomenclature was not known es contut en od pare te et tat vivre contut es plague et vivres de nomenclature lis es contut en lieu pro lis addiem lis de pro lis addiem lis adden to vivre lis es de query vivres lis lieu xepitaph plague en list annees is de lieu numeral de lieu summary vivres summaries applicae lieu en plague lieunm es xphalieumb de tat es strato summarie. {example substance obstacle shortcut apartheid revereant is the use of a term leprace or some similar related contagent alien ailment} I worked on healing structures thinking it was a simple synapse reaction from incontusive relations though it was much more complex and a simple antidote has regenerative capabilities which have aided heal the ailment though actual date is lieu. I first detected the injurious combatant in forcia on my first visit to the facilitation for golf known as Cloverleaf in Alton, illinois in January of 2001 when during a first stroke swing after tee shot a bruised wrist with simple incontusion did not heal until I had composite compound culture en telephone area code is (618) telephone number is ------ and since it has display more like colony forge enfortia fortiunm. Example pro se es da'hors et diem June 2001 es et addiem lieu es Acorn Golf Links En Watrloo, Illinois es ordinance contut inquery et phalanx enpare et mi xpare te
I baked and used the composite compound culture on frequent analysis for several days, en July 14, 2003 and regenerative composite bodily function is returned and returning.
Nomenae es cran nee lis japon
Michael Joseph Kostecki
Transmittal end.

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This guy has written us about a dozen similar ones over the years.

yossarian, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

We must restrict the email access of the insane.

bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

whoa, that's a whole other breed of crazy you got going on there. i think it's safe to say that we both see some scary emails, the difference being that yours are from frightening people and mine are from people that are frighteningly dumb.

metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Email #3
Thank you for putting on your web site
about coaking and how to get the baby
from stop coaking. My mother recently
became a grandmother by my sister, and
my neice has been getting coaked a
lot. I told her how to do the
procedure right, and my husband told me
that when I went out side the said that
I was wrong, and that the way I said
would make that baby worse. Now I cam
prove that they were wrong, not me.
Thank you so much this is one argument
that I can win.


editor's note: i'm not sure what she's talking about

metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Write her back and tell her to "have a coak and a smile."

martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"my neice has been getting coaked a lot"

the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

coak?

El Diablo Curmudgeonbotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Customer service jobs are the absolute nadir.

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Email #4
Subject: question

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I have been told that if don't have sex I would to do a c-section...this is because my passage is too small. IS THIS TRUE? if so how could I get to expand it?

metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Good lord.

These are clearly the folks planning to vote for Bush.

martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Imagine this lady's gentle husband explaining why he must shag her at every possible moment. "Honey if you don't have enough innercourse with me, your, ummm, passage won't be big enough for the baby to come out and you'll have to have a C-section. So brace yourself, Bridget.

S'wounds, some foolhardy people are breeding out there.

Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Email #5
Was wanting to know how much of a possibility it was to get pregnant if you have sex with a condom, but then a few minutes you have sex again without putting condom on before starting sex again. Is it possible for sperm to survive inside the penis for up to 15 minutes?

metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread sucks.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

pourqoui?

metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

1) Illiteracy isn't funny.

2) A lot of these questions are legitimate.

3) Even if the first two aren't tru, in most of these e-mails these people are sharing personal information with you which makes them vulnerable. And I don't find making fun of people when they are vulnerable is particularly worthy of kudos.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"Coaking" = "quaking"? I can't imagine it could mean "coughing".

Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I was thinking choking actually.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

In Australia some woman's child was dying, so she called 911, couldn't get through [well DUH], and the baby died. Link

Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

She called 911? Oh dear. See this is why all American media should be summarily dismissed from our televisions and magazines at once!

Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ILXors must be running out of things to morally condemn.

oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, you are morally reprehensible!

Nah, there's always something to rip shit on ;)

Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

2) A lot of these questions are legitimate

I've no doubt the original askers of the questions think they are legitimate, but how many of these questions make any sense at all? I think it's both pitiful and pretty damned funny.

martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex in SF-

I beg to differ.

1.) Illiteracy is tragic and funny.

2.) The legitimacy of the questions does not make them any less funny.

3.) The identities of these people have not been disclosed. They are not, therefore, vulnerable to us in any real way.

Just because I'm laughing or seriously worried doesn't mean I'm incapable of realizing my own shit stinks. Humor should not be ruled to harshly by morality or we will all end up earnest, little glum drones. Metfigga is legitimately amused and bemused by their queries and he should have as much fun as any other ILXor posting about the way he earns his daily bread.

Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Indeed. There's whole websites full of stuff like this (look at www.rinkworks.com/said for example). Ya gotta laugh or you'd cry, and all that.

Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like those websites either (the Darwin awards, etc.) I am sure that I am just a fun-killer. So ignore me and go back to mocking the uneducated, kay.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

In response to your points Alex: you're absolutely right, i shouldn't be making public the private affairs of others. and my choice to do so here was not a wise one. i have strongly considered taking these emails public in the past but what has always stopped me is the vulnerability and trust exhibited by the authors.

in fact i'm not going to argue any of the points you've made. all i can do is tell you why i feel that perhaps these emails should be shared (i'm not saying i will and i'm not going to continue to do so here).


our global population is soaring and perhaps, albeit unlikely, perhaps information such as this can help bring attention to the fact that many of the folks having children out there aren't fully prepared to do so. i've read thousands of emails like these in my work and i'm lead to believe that folks simply aren't receiving the education they need about sex ed, pregnancy, and parenting.

i don't know where i'm going with this and i never intended to get into it. if there were some way for these emails to help increase funding for programs like planned parenthood and the like, then, yes, i think it would be wise to make them public. obviously none of that is going to happen by sharing them here, so, thanks for helping me do what's right.

metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

after all that's been said about it, and because i live these things every stinking day, trayce is spot on. i do laugh, i laugh a lot. but it's just not a good idea to share these emails in such a public manner.

metfigga (metfigga), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Email #6
I am afrade that I may pee out my babey! oh no

dean!dean!dean (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been told that if don't have sex I would to do a c-section.

OK I'm sorry but this is fucking hysterical.

Allyzay, Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

A: Alex is right on many levels.

B: Please don't listen to Alex.

Debito (Debito), Thursday, 29 April 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)


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