I received this email two days ago:
Dear SAN DIEGO-CORONADO SHARKFEST swimmer,
Congratulations on your entry in the 2nd annual SAN DIEGO-CORONADO SHARKFEST SWIM, scheduled for Sunday, September 19, 2010. You will be swimming 1 mile across San Diego Harbor from the 5th Avenue Landing in San Diego to the foot of the Coronado Bridge on Coronado Island.
Shark fest? Me? In two days? I did not register for this event. However, the tone of the email was so commanding, I almost priced flights to San Dig.
I promptly emailed Keriann - recently moved to San Diego and asked if she was playing a trick on me.
She said no.
Briton said, "Check the credit card statement."
Which I promptly didn't.
The next day I received this email:
Dear Athletes,
I apologize if you received our previous San Diego-Corondao Entrant Newsletter email in error. It was accidentally sent to the wrong list. Please excuse our blunder. See you at the next race!
Best,
Enviro-Sports
I'll excuse the mixed pronouns and typo in the email for two reasons:
1) Ego: I enjoyed being addressed as an Athlete. Looking at this birthin' body o' three children, athlete would not be the first thing you would think of (Domestic Goddess? Yes. Athlete? No.).
2) Word choice: "blunder"
Disclaimer: Do not dismiss Enviro-Sports as an event organizer based on this email blunder or this post. We've run in their Muir Woods event and it was a sublime experience. Also, they started the event with everyone singing the national anthem. And first-place prize was a rubber chicken.
1 comment:
Wow, what an exciting email, except for the part about swimming with the sharks--yikes! How do you train for that? Do you have to rent your own sharks? Maybe you should give it a try next year. I like the word blunder and athlete is legit.
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