Remember how at first, your mom didn’t want to learn how to use email? And then when she finally got her AOL account all figured out, suddenly she was on it constantly? She realized that email was her friend, that she could write you whatever and whenever she wanted without having to call or prepare for your responses. In a mom email, all the elements are in place to give hilarity a good chance of ensuing most of the time.  

Fortunately, there is a place where people can anonymously share the best of mom’s emails; it’s called Postcards from your Momma. A “repository of modern day maternal correspondence,” the site is made up of submitted emails that were received from moms, occasionally with a short backstory where necessary. Here’s an example: 

“hi 
hope you are excited about campers coming tomorrow. good luck. you shouldn’t of asked me to look in your closet for your hat because i found a box of condoms. 
love, 
mom” 

Some are hilarious, some are pretty unremarkable, and some are just bizarre. The reoccurring theme in most of these is the extreme amount of nonsequiturs. Apparently, when it comes to emails to the kids, moms feel little obligation to any show of cohesiveness; they can be sweet, then totally disapproving, and then talk about which episode of “The Office” they watched, all in the same run-on sentence. 

Mom emails are funny, but this makes you think twice before convincing her to get that iPhone.