Google is looking at Drunk Emailing and came up with an idea to help people control themselves and not send a stupid email they will later regret. Here is the article.
Once I had a boyfriend guy who was kind of a drinker. (ha ha, once.) We didn't date for long, we lived in different states, he was older and I thought back then that the age of 27 meant you really had it all together. I was completely and utterly enamored with him. He sent me this passionate email that sent me reeling for months afterwards, convincing me for much too long that someday we WOULD be together and that we were MEANT to be together. I recently found a printed copy of this email when I was going through things and thought, 'wow, he was quite drunk when he wrote this!'. I wonder how my life might have been different if he'd used Google Goggles and if such a thing had been around back in those days. Still, I look back on those months of reeling from that email and recall those raw feelings that inspired artwork and silly poetry and think that is an important part of being young. Now that I am very old and 30 (heh heh) I am thankful that the Google Goggles didn't keep that email out of my inbox.
What are your experiences with drunk emailing or sending emails you may have regretted later?
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Nah. I'll tell you about a good occasion of drunken texting. Last Saturday I had several liter beers. Then I persuaded my friends to go to the bar where the dude I like hangs out. He was there! Before we left, I made myself go talk to him and his friend.
After I got home, I sent him a text message telling him he's hot. He actually wrote me back, which is a miracle given various slightly tedious details of our years-long mutual infatuation. The unfortunate thing is that I put the phone away and went to bed, not expecting any sort of response from him, then I was terrified to read the message for two days because I'm a giant dork.
By the time I responded to his text, he was not slightly drunk like he was that night and was silent as always. But, all in all it is a good thing.
i think emailing in general is dangerous. as a result of past experiences, let's just say that I now impose a 24-hour rule on emailing when it has anything to do with emotional situations, whether is has to do with men or with friends. i save the draft & wait.
but i will share one story- i was a little tipsy whenever i responded to my friends via email about planning a bachelorette party. thankfully, i didn't say anything raunchy or rude.
the next day i received a response from a very well-respected colleague from a very respectable university. apparently, in my rampant clicking, i had emailed not only my friends, but probably 10-15 of the most well-known caribbean archaeologists who were located everywhere from Amsterdam to California to London to Puerto Rico & throughout the US. PS, this is my phd-track field of study. definitely embarrassing, but people were sweet about it.
lesson learned.
emailing...dangerous, indeed.
Oooo, sometimes you just type in the beginning of a name and a totally different names comes up... dangerous, indeed.
Jenny, is this the guy that you've been crushing on for a couple of years now? Perhaps this situation actually calls for MORE drunken texting, I dunno.
More of everything! I'm drinking wine right now, uh-oh! I'll let you know when he's mine. :)
Btw, I love that Tom Waits song. I think I'm finally mature enough to appreciate Mr. Waits. Can you recommend a good album for me to start with?
Oh how glorious!
My favorite is probably Rain Dogs and Bone Machine. The first Tom Waits album I bought was Swordfishtrombones when I was 19 years old. Ahhh, memories.
For people just starting w/ Tom, I'd recommend The Heart of Saturday Night and Closing Time. Those are the most accessible. Then come back and I'll recommend more. :)
Will do!
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