I curse thee, spam!

The other day I made a mistake. I was lured in by the promise of free stuff and entered my email into a spam maker. I didn’t get any further than the first step, but that was already too far. Now I get around 100 spam emails a day promising me for free stuff that I’ll never receive. Luckily, my email host is pretty good about catching them so I only have to go into my spam folder and press “delete all.”

I’ve done the survey thing before. It’s amazing what a gal will resort to when she’s out of work for 3 months due to the loss of her hand use. All I ever got from doing every product survey ever conceived was some free shampoo and a check for $2.

I was on the AC Neilsen panel for a while (the same people that release tv show ratings). All I had to do was use this special scanner to scan the bar codes of my groceries. I felt that as a vegan and consumer of those “weird” groceries that my input was invaluable. I like to think that I made a difference, that there are more vegan foods available in more stores now. I did that for about 2 years and stopped when I moved to NYC. But I did get a free sewing machine out of it, so that’s pretty cool. Never mind that I still haven’t used the sewing machine. The fact is that I have it.

However the Neilsen thing didn’t fill my inbox with spam. It had nothing whatsoever to do with computers. Not like this current spam machine. I wonder how long it’ll take for the robots to give up because I’m not responding. Arrggg.