Sweet Gummi Mary! Surveillance has gotten out of hand. I refuse to have an Alexa in the Mansion. It's bad enough that my phone listens to me 24/7/365. And now, I've been betrayed by my HIPPIE! That's my HP laptop.
Thursday morning (I use that term loosely), I was answering comments on my not-so-secret blog. In reference to last week's tale of my casino trip, a reader said that she could almost hear the bells and whistles when I won. I replied, "Good thing you can't smell the cigarettes around me!" Because, you know, casinos are full of smokers, usually one on my left, and one on my right.
I typed that comment in my blog at 10:51 a.m. It was actually a couple minutes earlier, but our power went off, killing the DISH satellite for my TV, and apparently the other DISH satellite for my internet connection. Then power came back on, and the DISHes reset themselves.
Well! At 11:17 a.m., I heard my phone bleep with an email. It was from my health insurance provider. 5 Tips to Help Manage Cravings. Quit for Life can help you quit tobacco.
Are you freakin' kidding me? I have never been a smoker! EVER! Hick has never been a smoker. Nobody in our Mansion or on our health insurance policy has ever been a smoker! WHY am I getting this email from my health insurance provider? You can't tell me that they sent it out en masse to millions of people at that same moment.
That's way too much of a coincidence, to get such a "helpful" email, unsolicited, unneeded, 30 minutes after typing and posting a related comment.
I'm pretty sure there are worse ne'er-do-wells to spy on than me.
6 comments:
I get email ads for weight loss products everytime I leave a comment on a blog where the writer is a member of weight watchers.
River,
Good thing they are not secret members of some unsavory organization!
Yeah, I've gotten the same kind of "coincidental" emails after posting something. I figure, whatever kind of stuff they want to latch onto, my life is so incredibly boring--Go for it!
Maybe you should see if you could use that kind of spying to your advantage. Drop some hints about problems you have--Chex Mix addiction, Diet Pepsi overdose (it is that, and not Diet Coke, right?)--and see what happens...
Sioux,
I get a lot of ads for men's shoes. I guess Genius is planning to update his wardrobe for his new job. He occasionally used my Amazon account to purchase things for college, so now I seemed to be linked with his shopping habits as well. Lots of hot sauce ads, too.
Some of my titles will get more spam comments than others. And I am just trying to be witty.
Kathy,
That'll learn ya! Make those titles as dry as dust. Your regular readers will still find you, and the spammers may not! Although I DO love my titles, and I also get a charge out of sending comments into spammer jail. That comment moderation is a great tool for me.
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