After being nearly snowbound for two weeks last winter, a Seattle man departed for his vacation
in Miami Beach, where he was to meet his wife the next day, at the conclusion of her business
trip to Minneapolis. They were looking forward to pleasant weather and a nice time together.
Unfortunately, there was some sort of mixup at the boarding gate, and the man was told he
would have to wait for a later flight. He tried to appeal to a supervisor, but was told the
airline was not responsible for the problem and it would do no good to complain.
Upon arrival at the hotel the next day, he discovered that Miami Beach was having a heat wave.
Miami's weather was almost as uncomfortably hot as Seattle's was cold. The desk clerk gave him a
message that his wife would arrive as planned.
He could hardly wait to get to the pool area to cool off and quickly sent his wife an email.
However, due to his haste, he made an error in the email address. His message, therefore, arrived
at the home of an elderly preacher's wife, whose even older husband had died only the day before.
When the grieving widow opened her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out an anguished
scream and fell to the floor dead.
Her family rushed to her room where they saw this message on the screen: