Calling All Teachers! (and sap lovers)

Dar sent me this in an email chain letter last night. I'm sharing, and there is a story afterwards.
































While I don't really like sending on chain letters, and I don't tend to buy into the sappy email-that-makes-you-cry thing; this particular one struck me. Not because of the saving of the boy at the end, but because of the fact that this may have been some teacher's idea, and it was definitely illustrated in the midst of some teacher's classroom. How brilliant! Even though the people who took the pictures were not the original authors of the chain email (according to Snopes.com the original began circulating in 2005, while the picture version is new this year and is still being researched), what an awesome multi-media project for kids in school. Now, of course I'm speculating, because I have no way of knowing if it really was some teacher that used this as a lesson: but it is something I could absolutely see myself doing. (Though I don't think I would turn it purposefully into a chain letter.) I thought my fellow teacher-y types, and those who enjoy a good sappy email would enjoy it.

It reminds me of a little funny.

Someone sent me an email about a 'dangerous file' in 2002. I fell for it, deleted said file (which turned out to be needed), and emailed it onto everyone that I cared about... including Stephen. At the time it had been a year or so since we had last talked, and so he sent me an email back. A mild chastisement for sending on an unresearched email, and a nice love note at the same time. He also helped me to fix the damage I had caused by deleting the file in the first place. That was the last time I have ever sent anything on, and the first time that I used Snopes.com. All because of Stephen.

I remember that the computer I was using at the time has stickers of things in a garden on it. Little carrots and rabbits and baskets and trowels and such. I remember being ashamed at doing something silly and being called on it, but being so happy to have gotten an email back from him at the same time. I saved those emails. I still have them. The funny thing? So did he.