I can’t share the actual email with you, sorry. It was to an attorney, and it was nerve-wracking.

It took me about an hour to write. I’m not sure why you’re asking the question, so I’m not sure what you might want to know about it.

Email to a potential employer, including resume (same one as in my profile).
Cover letter expressed my interest in working at the company, the great admiration I have for a guy I sort of know who works there, my work in various local industry-related nonprofits- and the answer to the last sentence of their job advertisement.

The advertisement ended with:
“Must have a strong opinion in the vi vs. emacs debate”.
My answer:
“ed is the STANDARD EDITOR. That is all.”

I don’t think I got the job.

Something along the lines of :

“Hey mum, are you home this week? I’m going to make a spontaneous train journey later on down to MK but it would be pointless if you were away somewhere. Love”

it doesn’t read important, but it to me it really was!

I wrote to the inspectors of my children’s primary school on behalf of all the parents to tell them lots of great things that the school has done. Inspections are done about once every five years and assess how good the school is, so it was important that they knew all the good things.

Today. A short message to a forum administrator to ask him to change some settings for me.

[ sort of important since I rarely write mails ]

Just earlier today…

To: verification@bhphotovideo.com

Hi Ben,

According to my bank you already charged me for my purchase (six days ago). Are you going to ship it or refund my account? If I don’t get a tracking number today or a notification that the funds will be put back in my account I will contact by credit union to issue a charge-back. Apparently you couldn’t verify my account but you took out 75 dollars for the hard drive I ordered.

Thanks
John Powell

This was after a e-mail saying my phone number or address didn’t match what my bank had on record. I wasn’t expecting to be charged before the item shipped. I didn’t think they legally could. But why charge my account and say that my account can’t be verified?

Mine was to my mom and sister telling them how much fun I had with all of us getting together this weekend with my sister’s kids etc. A significant part of the message was how connected I felt and how much I enjoyed the laughter.

My email to the mortgage holder of my home…..CitiBank. I notified them that the last payment on my mortgage had been paid and I wanted a certified letter, from them, stating as such.

CitiBank not only sent me a certified letter stating Paid In Full, they also sent a check for the remaining cash in my escrow account.

10 cents!!!

The other day I wrote a letter to the IB Coordinator at a school that I am considering going to. I went over it a hundred times just to check it everything sounded good lol.
I made an appointment so I am meeting her in 2 hours.

wish me luck

An email to sell soemthing that will make me at least $50 XD I’m gonna buy minecraft if I can

@john65pennington Don’t spend it all in one place. :-)

After a very long life (96.5 years), my mother had a massive stroke on Wed. and died mercifully on Saturday.

I am the family scribe so sent out an email to the appropriate remaining family and friends.
The content is irrelevant and I am a facile writer. It took about ten minutes.

I also wrote the little death notice for the NYY, but that was mainly verifying dates, spellings and word count. ($65 for 5 short words.)

It just took me about 3 to 4 mins. The last one was my resignation mail and I wrote this:

I would like to submit my resignation. Please accept the same.

Please relieve me on or before 30th June 2011.

Thanking you,
XYZ

@gailcalled sorry for your loss. (hugs)

An e-mail to someone apologizing…didn’t do any good as far as I know…

These last few hours have been some of the most torturous of my life. And then I think about your email and I wonder why? Why am I doing this? If you don’t want to do it, why should I? I really don’t like being tortured, especially if I’m torturing myself.

1) Didn’t take long to write. It’s an except from something much longer.
2) You should know the context, but I’m not going to tell you. Hopefully you will feel the urgency of the email from the tone of this except.

It was a request to a professor to let me be in his class, even though I don’t have the prereq. requirements.
Dr. Another Teacher recommended your Feminist Theories & Practice I class, and I would really love to take it before I transfer to a better college in Spring 2012 (hopefully, fingers crossed!). However, I have not taken Intro to Women’s Studies 1010. Is that prerequisite a hard-and-fast rule, or is there possibly some way around it, please?

It took maybe 20 minutes, but most of that was tracking down the proper email for the recipient.

@gailcalled I’m so sorry for your loss.