An E-mail To The Wrong Wife

This is voted as the best e-mail joke in Australia in 2001.

An E-mail To The Wrong Wife.

After being nearly snowbound for two weeks last winter, a Seattle man
departed for his vacation in Miami Beach, where he was to meet his wife the
next day at the conclusion of her business trip to Minneapolis. They were
looking forward to pleasant weather and a nice time together. Unfortunately,
there was some sort of mix up at the boarding gate, and the man was told he
would have to wait for a later flight. He tried to appeal to a supervisor
but was told the airline was not responsible for the problem and it would do
no good to complain. Upon arrival at the hotel the next day, he discovered
that Miami Beach was having a heat wave, and its weather was almost as
uncomfortably hot as Seattle's was cold. The desk clerk gave him a message
that his wife would arrive as to the pool area to cool off, and quickly sent
his wife a e-mail, but due to has haste, he made an error in the e-mail
address. His message therefore arrived at the home of an elderly preacher's
wife whose even older husband had died only the day before. When the
grieving widow opened her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out
an anguished scream, and fell to the floor dead. Her family rushed to her
room where they saw this message on the screen:


Dearest wife,
Departed yesterday as you know.
Just now got checked in.
Some confusion at the gate.
Appeal was denied.
Received confirmation of your arrival tomorrow.
Your loving husband.
P.S. Things are not as we thought. You're going to be surprised at how hot
it is down here.