bless his heart

so i get a call this morning from my father saying, he got a really interesting email from a relative at work. i asked what it was about and he said money. my first thought was did he owe someone money? (which made very little sense with this relative and my father in general doesn't really do that) but then he said no in getting money. i told him to proceed and he went on about Bill Gates wanting to do a survey and you'll get $200 and something per email, you know you've gotten something like this before, and perhaps this same one a couple of years ago. who knows! all i do know is easy money doesn't fall from the sky and i doubt from fwding emails. i asked my dad if he had checked on snopes and that was a foreign word to him. never a good sign so i explained that it's was probably a scam or had a virus attached or if they can't space his name right... see below... probably not going to happen.

Dear Friends: Please do not take this for a junk letter.
Bill Gat es sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent
later .

i was surprised my father fell for this, bless his heart. i wish you could have heard the tone of his voice when i talked to him. at first i thought do we have some inheritance money on my father's side and then i remembered my antepasados were a bunch of drunk ranchers/cowboys that didn't even farm in the right spot. stories are told that they went to the wine country of cali and said ain't nothin' gunna grown there and so they returned to southern new mexico where they grew chili peppers and cotton and gained millions... or barely survived. anyways needless to say it was entertaining and my dad now knows about snopes. :)