Things I learned the hard way

(part of an occasional series)
When you’re sending an email to a bunch of strangers to deliver news about a mutual friend who is seriously ill – it is unwise to send from your “morgue” email address.
People tend to get the wrong idea about the friend’s health and wellbeing…
(Other solution: choose better nickname for yourself 17 years in the past.)

4 thoughts on “Things I learned the hard way”

  1. But if you had a different nickname you wouldn’t be the mysterious 3rd twin of the Hamilton Morgues, a pair of identical but shorter versions of you.

  2. It would be quite peculiar though if the morgue emailed people when someone they knew died.

  3. I just tried to imagine what will happen to me…it involves being chased by the ghost of Steve Irwin.
    I suppose it could be worse, like if your nickname was, say, Osama bin somethingrather….

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