Excuse Me Doctor, Is This Normal?

Some people keep a lot of junk.  From clothes that will never fit again, to old magazines, to expired ketchup…people like their useless crap.

For me it’s a little different.  This year I began to earnestly clean my closet (otherwise I’m sure I’d still have those denim jeans with the flowered prints), and magazines I hardly even read to begin with.  As for ketchup it’s a condiment I hate, but there’s one little thing that I haven’t been getting rid of:

-Emails

I have two personal email accounts, and one that I use for the most part (the other one’s reserved for stalking younger men.  What?…Hahaha…of course I’m joking silly!).  For the primary account, my inbox hasn’t been purged since 2004 (does that sound naughty?).  Before then I would always delete my emails once every couple of weeks (since the storage limit in 2003 was a ridiculous two megabytes).

But with the advent of technology and passage of time, the storage size has grown exponentially.  And so I’ve stopped deleting.  What can I say, it was an opportunity for laziness, and I took it.

Now it’s not like I sit around thinking “Hmm…what did my Ex write to me in 2005?  Let me go check”. 

Every now and then though, I’ll recall an old attachment that I think I’d lost, and I’ll do an email search to find it.

I like that.

That’s what I was doing yesterday, and that’s when I came across something a little odd…something I’d never noticed.  I was typing in a keyword search, and in doing so a person’s name came up (which was funny, since the person had nothing to do with my object of interest).  And when I mean this person’s name came up, I mean it came up a lot…a long list in fact.

But how long was it in general?  How many emails in total?

I entered the person’s name to get the answer.

253 emails.

I’ve only been corresponding with this person for ten months, so that’s almost an email a day.

That’s…a lot of emails, and I’m sure I’ve replied just as often at least.

Which is why I’m thinking something I’ve never even pondered before:  Is it normal to have 253 emails from a single friend?  253 emails from a single…”man friend”?

Hmm…fancy that.

Hmm…