Dad was on vacation this week. Our family vacations are really more like ‘staycations’ – we take day trips and watch movies and eat barbecued food. Lots and lots of barbecued food. And Dad does his best to disconnect, no phone calls or checking e-mails.

Well, he decided to log into his Outlook this morning.

185,000 e-mails.

This is, evidently, the drawback of auto-reply. Junk mail gets through the filter, Outlook sends a response, which can’t be recieved by the junk mail server and then gets bounced back, and Outlook sends another response…back and forth for almost a week straight.

One hundred eighty-five THOUSAND. Welcome back.