Pet Peeve number 23, 612

Only in this case it wasn’t a pet peeve before, because I never considered that someone would do this.

Someone actually forwarded me a spam they got with the message “This doesn’t apply to me, I must have gotten it by mistake.”

What, exactly, do they expect me to do about that?

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