Enlarge your umbrella

Another rant about spam: one of the e-mails I just received has the subject line “You left your umbrella,” from someone named Angel Scott. Yahoo Mail had automatically filtered this into the “Bulk” folder, so I knew it was suspicious to begin with, but I was curious. I had indeed left my umbrella on the Metro a couple of weeks ago. Well, it turns out that despite the innocuous subject line, said e-mail concerns that ever popular spam topic: penis enlargement. What the… ?

In related news, after work that day I bought a new umbrella at Hechts, and have I used it yet? Not once. How ironic (or something like that). Sure, it’s rained since then, but I’ve always managed, mostly unintentionally, to avoid being caught outside in a storm. Go figure.