Comment by stickfigure
4 years ago
This, a thousand times. I have a standard bit of lorem-ipsum-style content for this situation (whose origin I have forgotten and cannot credit, lo siento):
This is a test.
This is only a test.
Had this been a real emergency, we would have fled
and you would not have been informed.
To be honest things like that may sound funny to you, but it's easy to take things the wrong way. I'd leave out the last sentence.