Dallas News:

“While most vacationing email recipients keep it simple … some cannot resist the opportunity to inject a bit of their personality into their correspondents’ inboxes in absentia,” wrote Emily Gould.

Which, yeah, I guess that’s me. And I guess the story did well, because Facebook and Twitter have been telling me since I woke up today that it’s back on the front page of the Times’ site. So here’s a short story about how a ridiculously long out-of-office reply was born.

Most of us find those auto “out-of-office” replies mildly annoying. This one might make you cry.