My email is a
monster,the oatmeal,comics,funny comics & strips, cartoons,email,monster
who sits atop my computer.,the oatmeal,comics,funny comics & strips, cartoons,email,monster
He’s incredibly polite.,the oatmeal,comics,funny comics & strips, cartoons,email,monster
He never means to be a bother.
r Hey-	1 know you're busy.
[ but di	d you get that thing 1
	1 sent you? a1
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He really doesn’t.,the oatmeal,comics,funny comics & strips, cartoons,email,monster
But he still manages to be a chore. Pi never-ending errand.,the oatmeal,comics,funny comics & strips, cartoons,email,monster
And I know that’s not his intention. Maybe the emails are super important. Maybe someone is on a deadline.
Maybe someone Just misses me.
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Perhaps email itself is to blame.
It is a broken protocol that
demands verbosity.
From: Nancy GurgleMeat
Dearest Matthew.
My sincerest apologies for not writing sooner. How have you been? fire you well? I am emailing to inquire as to your ability to retrieve a jug of pasteurised bovine titty
The funny thing is,
I like communicating.
I like talking to people Even texting and social media can be fun.
And yet I hate, hate, lna+6 my email.,the oatmeal,comics,funny comics & strips, cartoons,email,monster
I sometimes like to visualize what it would look like if I wrote every email by hand and stuck them in my yard.
It lends perspective on how much time I spend doing something I hate.,the oatmeal,comics,funny comics & strips, cartoons,email,monster
“   ^
It doesn’t matter, though.
My email monster must be tended to.
To abandon him is to be a digital recluse. ',the oatmeal,comics,funny comics & strips, cartoons,email,monster
Unfortunately, the more I tend to his needs,,the oatmeal,comics,funny comics & strips, cartoons,email,monster
the more work I put into him
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the more work comes back.
JUST KIDDING!
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So, the next time you send an email and get a brief, curt, or nonexistent reply,
remember who you’re feeding.
HOLV SMOKES!
AN EMAIL FROM VOUR AUNT MILGA!
fire you gonna et that or what?
THE END!
Written + drawn by The Oatmeal.,the oatmeal,comics,funny comics & strips, cartoons,email,monster