You don't have to be techie to know what a spam mail is...

One day Zoe was complaining about how a budget airline did not send her a booking confirmation via email. Then, I told her to call the airline but she said she doesn't want to spend money on calling them since it takes a while for her call to get through and the office of the airline is overseas. So I told her to call the credit card company instead and check if the booking was posted on her credit card. So she called her dad and asked him to check for her.

A few days later, I asked her about her flight booking and she said she's worried that she might not have been able to book the flight but she was charged with her credit card. She kept complaining about it over and over again to her friend who came over that day. Until I thought that the mail could've been routed to her spam mails. And so I told her to check her spam mails. Then she turned to me with a silly-and-ignorant looking face and said, "SPAM???". "Yeah, spam!" I replied. Then she just stared at me for about 30 seconds... then I gave her a stupified look with a huge "?!?" on my face and said, "Spam mails a.k.a Junk mails". So then she looked at her spam mail and found it. "You are so smart! You are so smart!", she said to me. "Why didn't I think of that?", she added with an embarrassed tone.

Her friend, sensing Zoe's self-esteem going down below her knees, tried to make her feel better and said, "Maybe you're just not a techie person... that's why!". And because I still wasn't over the fact that she didn't know what a spam mail is, I blurted out "I'm sorry! (with a very sarcastic and supercilious tone) But you don't have to be techie to know that..." Then I went back to watching t.v.

Yes... I know... sometimes I just can't control myself. I really just have to let it out. hehehe.

Just a sudden thought... is it because she's not a techie person that's why she couldn't figure out that the socket switch is turned off that's why she can't turn on the aircon? Hmmm... Maybe.

(Note to readers: you have to read the post prior to this to understand the aircon remark)