I see this quite often, and I'd like to point out to those who may send such messages, maybe without really thinking about it, that they are being rude.
It's the print equivalent of barking a command at someone, and nobody likes that, particularily if this is how you're making a first impression on someone. A "Hello" in an email is always nice, as is some kind of goodbye.
on how many idiotic, unthinking, illegal or just plain rude and moronic emails I've received in my relatively short time doing this... in fact, I've detailed some of them on my site in a section of my FAQs that I call "My Own Confederacy of Dunces."
So to you polite, articulate, well-informed gentlemen-- kudos! We love hearing from you. To you other boys, well, I've got a big, tall cap and a stool for you. Now sit on it.
Many of us have become so accustomed to email as a form of communication, that we've lost the art of personal interaction. I'm very often guilty of forgetting the hellos and goodbyes, but "trimmed or shaved" is another level of rudeness. If we believe that we're simply spending time together, that clearly falls into the off limits question anyway.
If you want to see me today, im shaved If you want to see me in 2 or 3 days, Im trimmed If you want to see me in one week, Im the African Lion Safari and you can lose small objects in there.
Frankly, I enjoy messages that get right to the point without a bunch of fluff or wasted verbage. Now, if he would have said "hey bithc, trimmed or shaved" I would have agreed with you that a little chivalry was in order.
OMG That was too funnyRedheadedTigress. Sorry acidom I didn't realize that was you but no I still don't care for it in an email you can be that direct in person though.
I would hope that you'd know me better than that. The email would be more like...wanna hook up for some card counting lessons? Then when I got there, we could discuss how many articles of clothing the loser would remove. Upon me losing all of my clothes in record time, I could show you where I'm ticklish.
....a lady of my aquaintance said she regards such emails as an additional screening tool. It makes it easy for her to weed out those who will not behave like gentlemen.
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