I just now (1:13am) had a dream where me, Brett & Eddy from TwoSet, the guy roommate characters from New Girl, and specifically Captain Marvel all worked at a strange Walmart-Costco hybrid store around Christmas, and there was a bet going around to see who could get Captain Marvel to open an email, and not just read the subject line without opening it.
Well, Challenge Accepted™️.
While I was sitting with the guys after closing one day, and they were all talking about how they hadn’t sent anything that tricked her into opening the actual email, I had typed up and sent this whole thing that was basically:
“Hey, I just wanted to say sorry for the what I said earlier. I know you were just trying [this is where I figured the “preview text” had ended] to not open any emails, but I figured I’d give this a shot. Hopefully it worked! Anyway, thanks for your help today, and I guess we’ll see how the guys like my attempt. 🙃”
As I sent the email with a very satisfied look on my face, the guys were all like, “wait, what did you send?” since I had just asked what the bet was.
Before I responded, Captain Marvel walked up, absolutely pissed, flipped me off with a quiet but seething “fuck you”, and stomped off.
I already forgot what I won, but when I tell you I CACKLED, I was so pleased with myself. None of the guys had thought about what their email previews would show up as, and I had successfully beat them all at something in a minute that they’d been trying to accomplish for over a week.
It was very satisfying. I woke up feeling like my dream self had come up with a great solution to the challenge, and it’s absolutely something I’d do in real life.
