My aunt's boss used to run a custom plastic manufacturing plant and was searching the internet for a machine that crushes plastic into small pieces by using heavy, large diameter steel balls. Well, when you type "plastic ball crusher" into the search engine...this is what you get. Click Here

He sent the link to a variety of people that he knew would get a kick out of it, including my wife & I, with a note that he was going to start making them for distribution in the Northeast. Unbeknownst to him, I have my own email address and my wife forwarded it to me suggesting I prank him. I emailed him pretending to be the owner of a chain of adult stores with a very specialized clientelle for which his new product would be perfect. He freaked out, profusely apologized and tried to explain that it was just a joke. I didn't think it was funny at all, and I resented not only his humor...but obviously his opinion of people (like my customers) who want and need products such as this. "How am I going to tell people I've shown your product to that it was a joke? Do you mind answering that one for me?" Emails were exchanged over the course of weeks, each getting angrier and more erratic.

Signed...Al DeSalvo.

For the following year and a half, he went insane thinking some crazy guy from Long Island was going to seek revenge on him for his joke. It was only discovered when my wife...of course...replied to a random email of his and cc'd me as well.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.