So yeah, this happened to me the other day:
Set phasers on ‘stalk’!
Google is handy, no? In retrospect, responding with his name and address a minute later is pretty much the worst possible response next to, “we have your wife.”
I was really wondering, though — how do you even text someone at random? Don’t you generally select the person you’d like to talk to from a list in your contacts? My guess was that it was either typed in wrong or that someone borrowed the guy’s phone as a prank.
Of course, maybe he was just trying to get the word out.
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Well, it does give a certain level of “And I can come to your house and gut you while you sleep!” threat to your otherwise polite response. Maybe disturbing, but far from ineffective. :)
Surprisingly, it was more the “hey, you’re not anonymous, idiot” thing that I was going for. It was only in retrospect that I considered the possibility that Manny could have been totally freaked out by it. :)
Isn’t that the whole reason we fear others less when we’re anonymous? No chance at retaliation? You say tomato, etc.
Well sure, but most people don’t think about their actions when they’re safely anonymous, they just do things.