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 the weather was almost as uncomfortably hot, as Seattle's was cold. The desk clerk gave him a message that his wife would arrive as planned. He could hardly wait to get into the pool to cool off and he quickly sent his wife an e-mail. But due to his haste he made an error in the 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 rused 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 you arrival tomorrow.
Your loving husband.
PS Things are not as we thought. You're going to be surprised at how hot it is down here."