I'm really, really grateful that my company doesn't have anything as sensitive as this to email out. I don't get upset, just perturbed, when Father's Day rolls around and my inbox fills with 'buy crap for your dad'. He died 11 years ago, but they have no way of knowing that. However, within a year of him dying, the American Cancer Society called me for a donation and I chokingly explained to them that he'd died of cancer the previous year. At first, the lady sort of went with the script, but then I did get mad and she quickly ended the call.

Emails don't bother me as much as the phone calls soliciting for money. Emails are easily deleted, but I feel bad when I hang up on solicitors (most of the time).

The "holiday" that annoys the crap out of me is Valentine's day. I'm what the guys get to call "a confirmed bachelor(ette)", so I don't need reminding every freaking place I go, thank you very much. Gah. Marketers.