If you haven’t gotten a response on your email to Chris Pratt, here’s why!
The 40-year-old actor is getting a fresh start on his email inbox after a hilarious fail which led him to accidentally delete over 51,000 emails. And it’s all thanks to his son!
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On Wednesday, the Marvel star took to his Instagram Story to explain that his 7-year-old son Jack, whom he shares with ex-wife Anna Faris, “gasped in shock” after seeing that his dad had over 35,000 unread emails in his inbox.
Pratt joked about how he came to accumulate so many messages that have gone unseen:
“It’s mostly junk. See what I do is I sign up for everything… I’m one of those idiots who will do, like, an IQ test. It’ll be like, ‘Wanna take an IQ test? Gimme your email!’ And then I do, which proves my IQ is about seven. And I just get junk from everyone and I just don’t erase it.”
But 35,000 emails?!
He continued:
“But I also want to apologize. There are a lot of emails in there where I just spaced out and didn’t get back to you. If you’re watching this and you’re one of those people, I’m sorry. But I’m gonna try. I’m gonna try to get back to you. I’m working on it right now.”
Not wanting to disappoint his son, Pratt set a goal of sorting through 1,000 emails per day until it was down to zero. At that rate, it would take him 35 days, and we can only imagine that the number would continue to grow over time! Like many of us would, the Parks & Recreation alum decided to search for a shortcut, which is where things went awry:
“Trying not to panic. I think I just tried something to delete anything unread and it just deleted them. So now I’m like, ‘Oh no. I needed to read them. But I don’t know where they went.’ … So if I owe you an email, you might want to follow up on that. Resubmit, perhaps, the email and then I’ll read it. It may have just gotten deleted.”
Unfortunately, it wasn’t just the unread emails that got deleted. He soon discovered that all 51,000 messages in his inbox were sent to the trash:
“Fifty-one thousand messages are in the trash. Oh f**k. What did I do? It’s just deleting them all. All my emails. Oh my God. This could be a real nightmare.”
Well, if you don’t see Chris in any movies for the next couple years we guess you’ll know why! LOLz!
Despite the tech fail, Pratt seems to have a good attitude about the whole thing, declaring it a “fresh start” with a laugh and shrug of his shoulders.
Note to self: NEVER let Chris Pratt near our inbox!!
[Image via Chris Pratt/Instagram Story & FayesVision/WENN.]
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