Ok maybe not of the week but of the moment.

During my tenure as a hooker I tried very hard to be not only efficient but courteous when responding to e-mail inquires. It's common decency right? Now, I know there are a lot of ladies out there that get a barrage of e-mails on a daily & weekly basis and responding to that volume of mail has become an art form. To those ladies, I applaud you.

But, what about those who are just sarcastic and rude? Here is the deal. Some of you know I own my own design business. I sent out an e-mail recently to some ladies who either had free web sites (geo cities, freewebs ect.) or had no web presence at all outside of ads. I do this once a year.

There is this person (I just can't call her a lady) who in her infinite charm and gentility responded to my e-mail with such disdain and sarcasm that all I could think was, wow do you actually work in this industry? She was on vacation.  I know this because the e-mail was originally met with a yahoo auto response. So what chip in her brain caused her to act like a shit in an e-mail while on vacation? This is the kind of question that I think of when I am changing my cat’s little box. Fitting I think. But I digress…..

Here are my thoughts, take them for what they are worth..

Ladies, if you get a solicitation in an e-mail for something you are not interested in...delete it. It is one click away. It's really easy and will save you so much hassle. All it takes is one e-mail, spread back channel to do a woman's business a lot of harm. I didn't do this, but I have seen it happen. It is not pretty.

If and only if you feel the need to respond, do it in a manner in which no one can ever read any sarcasm or contempt into it, unless of course you really don't give a shit and that is what you are trying to convey to the recipient.

I got a lot of solicitation e-mails while I worked, a lot of them from web designers, and I built and maintained my own site. I just deleted them and asked to be taken off the mailing list. Short, sweet and to the point. And it left me open to being called a sarcastic, rude bitch when I deserved it.