Your post reminded me of a somewhat similar email catastrophe. ![]() Tags: embarrassing moments, Molly Hacker, mortifying moments, rewind button, technological advancesĢ4 responses so far 24 Responses to “REWIND BUTTON, ANYONE?” What about you, cool peeps? How often do you wish your life had a rewind button? See you next week. Isn’t it a better world when we put our best out there, whether or not the kindness is returned? When I kindly hold a door open for someone who does not acknowledge me, or let someone in traffic who does not wave thanks, I often wish I could rewind and take back my kindness. (Tried to steal my boyfriend!) But I didn’t care. Normally, I would have read her the riot act, and been very clear that no apologies were ever made to someone who had done wrong to me. I have no interest in any apologies you make to me.” She looked right at me and said, “Molly, I deleted your email. I suffered for two days, waiting for payback.Ī week later, I ran into the backstabber on the street. “ARE YOU FREAKIN’ kidding me?” I screamed to the universe. The MOMENT I hit “Send,” that horrific, paralyzing, sinking feeling of dread overwhelmed my senses. Because I was still fuming over the betrayal, I chose the backstabber’s name, and not the name of my current friend, from my email list. Once, I was in a situation where I needed to warn a friend about a recent former friend who had just stabbed me in the back. Have you ever gotten an email which you didn’t realize was sent to multiple recipients, and without realizing it, you send a personal response to everyone? That is horrific. One of the worst rewind moments ever is sending an email to the wrong person. People, including yours truly, make mistakes. TV and radio shows have seven-second delays for a reason. Finally, just as the Tin Man managed to mumble “Oil Can” in the “Wizard of Oz,” Caleb mumbled, “This is my wife, Sarah, Dina.” Is that not a total duh-you-moron-rewind moment? The woman shot rays of poison at Dina and Caleb atrophied where he stood. And that you make the best cherry pie ever.”Īnd then the earth fell silent. ![]() He said Mother’s Day was invented just for you. “Oh, but Caleb used to talk about his mom all the time. I’ve heard so much about you.”Ĭaleb tried to say, “I don’t think that’s possible,” but Dina enthusiastically babbled on to stranger. ![]() She smiled at the woman by his side and pleasantly said, “It’s a pleasure to meet you. I’m just thinking about my life and about all the times when just a five-second rewind would go a really long way.Įven if you haven’t done it yourself, most of us know someone who has chatted up either a female acquaintance or stranger with the words, “So, when is your baby due?” only to receive the mortifying response, “I’m not pregnant.” Those are the moments when you either want the universe to zap you into oblivion or the ground to swallow you whole.Ī friend of mine, Dina, recently ran into a former co-worker, Caleb, on the street. Now that would be amazing.īut I don’t want to get too heady here. So, I just have one question: with all of the “stuff” that has been invented, why hasn’t someone figured out how to make a rewind button?ĭo you know how many miserable situations could just be avoided if we could hit REWIND and go back even five seconds in time – even two? Think about the car accidents alone that could be avoided. I won’t even try to give a brief mention to everything (both positive and negative) that has come from a recent technological advance. ![]() You know, there isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t think about how technology has vastly changed the way we do everything.
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