Certain things I don’t talk about on the blog. The size of my ass, my debt and politics. Today I’m going to break one rule.
Its not my ass, its safe to continue reading.
In order to not force my views upon anyone – I’ll refer to the the Rep/Dem parties as ‘Bert’ & ‘Ernie’. You figure out which is which. 
Yesterday I got an email from a friend. Its the same friend from a couple posts back, the friend who is now bff’s with my mortal enemy. She is politically the complete opposite of me. A huge Bert to my Ernie. This never bothered me really. She would make her jabs and I would just ignore her. Knowing that politics are just not something that I cannot talk to people about.
She sends me this email, its one of those cheesy emails. Where you know, it ends with something like “jesus wants you to forward this to 12 of your closest friends” or “you hate America if you don’t forward this to everyone you know”. Cheesy. And whats worse is that the email is a complete attack on Ernie. And completely inaccurate.
Now while I should not give the email the time of day – it annoys me that its filled with such blather, very little of it true and all of it exaggerated. Do I continue my dance of avoidance with her or do I point out that she is forwarding complete bullshit?
Do I bother?
And why do I consider this mortal enemy bff’ing, Bert loving, cheesy email forwarding still a friend?
I cant help with the ‘why still a friend’ part, as I notoriously give my friends way too much slack. But, the forwarding email bit…drives me up a tree, and when its total blather I go to Snopes.com, find the offending email and send the link to the sender with a nice note that says, I just though you might like to know more about what you are spreading…errr…forwarding
By: Shan on February 13, 2008
at 6:42 pm
I’m a HUGE fan of the DELETE function for all forwarded sh…stuff. I’ve got a few Bert friends that send me stuff all the time.
I’m with Shan on the “friend” thingy. (If there was a smiley with the hands out to the side with shrugging shoulders, I’d insert it here).
Why can’t we all just be Elmo?
By: Laurie on February 13, 2008
at 9:12 pm
hmmmm. Well, numba one – do you think she might have sent it to jab at you? Numba two – do you think you would get the reaction you want if you called her on it? Numba three – Why ARE you still friends with someone who is BFF’s with your mortal enemy? I meant to ask you that last time – more importantly – do you think that this is the kind of friend you want in your life? Is she more toxic, than giving and caring? I could go on and on – because I’ve had the experience of a toxic friend – and it’s by no means an easy call to make – but if it’s twisting you up, my friend, well then, I think you know what you have to do.
By: chris on February 13, 2008
at 9:44 pm
Geez, I don’t know. Block her e-mail address?
By: hand eye crafts on February 14, 2008
at 9:38 pm
My Dearest.. don’t let such things get to you..it’s such a waste of your precious time. Just hit delete and move on.
Politics and Religion are very sore subjects if views are different between BFF’s or enemies.
Stick with your intuitions..I DO
By: Greenie on February 15, 2008
at 4:32 pm
That’s why I love my ‘Delete’ button!
By: LisaB on February 22, 2008
at 2:59 am