Dear Chili,
What on earth should we do with those people who refuse to check their e-mail? Who say things like, “Oh, here’s my address, but just call me because I check it, like, once a month.”
Signed,
Needing more 21st-century friends
Dear Soul Sister,
You can always respond with the ever-popular, "Excellent! Here’s my phone number. You can call me, but I only answer my phone on odd Fridays between 2 and 3." There are other options:
- Offer them string and tin cans with your e-mail address on them.
- Smile and nod. Then only e-mail them. If they really like you, they’ll check the e-mail. Or they’ll keep missing play dates. Make sure the play dates are scheduled somewhere fun for you so it won’t matter whether they show up.
- Ditch them.
I
don’t hang with anyone who doesn’t check their e-mails a quadrillion times a day. I should be able to carry on a conversation via e-mail because they check their e-mail so much. Sure, we could IM, but that’s not the point now is it?
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Ooooh la la la la Chili!
Please riddle me this… why do you choose to hide your face and your kiddies’ from the internet? (I figure this might give some people good insight for their own actions!!)
THANK YOU!
SARAH COOL 
Dear Sarah:
Are you wearing a can-can skirt right now? Or just a tight green catsuit? Oh no. Please tell me you aren’t wearing the catsuit with the can-can skirt. That’s just wrong. Now if you add a little mask to that you might have something.
Speaking of masks, I choose to wear my mask because it’s just terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.
PS: And really, God help those who look to me for insight for their own actions.
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I wore a can-can skirt all day yesterday.
Those non-email reading people FREAK ME OUT. How do they LIVE?
I have a few friends that almost never check their email. I just don’t get it. As for me, I’ve been known to think, “Okay, this email just now popped into my box. Maybe I should wait half an hour to respond so people don’t think I spend all day checking my email.” Except, I DO spend all day checking my email.
I can stop checking my email ANY TIME I WANT – really – I just choose not to, I don’t have a problem , I’m FINE. I can stop any time….. oh just got a new one ,gotta go!
Thank heavens I’m not the only one who listens intently for the chime of new email. Now I may not get around to replying for awhile… but that’s just bacause I’m lazy.
Oh my gosh – the one about the people that don’t check email — TOO HILARIOUS!
Hard to imagine those people still exist.
But then, I don’t answer my phone.
At ALL.