Reply #11: That time I didn't get any responses

[TlalocW]

ANOTHER time when I replied all to something my then high school niece sent out about stupid things famous people had said, I got an email flame war lasting a couple of months. All the Dan Quayle quotes in there had Al Gore's name next to them. I replied back (all) correcting those as well as a few other mistakes I knew, and as a joke, I put something like, "If you're wanting famous people saying dumb things, just go through the White House website looking for the George W. speech archive section."

One of her classmates emailed me back threatening me with physical harm. Unfortunately for him, I'm unlisted, and that vexed him to no end. I let him know I was in Tulsa (he was in Kansas), and if he really wanted to, "Kick a mudhole through my chest," he should ask mommy to borrow the car, drive down here to meet me somewhere, and he could commence the mudhole-kicking. He kept demanding my address (uh, noooo... don't think so) and would call me a coward for not giving it. I don't go off on macho trips, daydreaming about beating the snot out of a high schooler, but I was having fun and even offered to meet him in his hometown as I visited often to see family, and I would even buy him a Happy Meal at the local McDonalds. My niece informed me that I was 3 times his size so that would have been funny.

What was weird though was that my niece actually started dating him (he claimed someone else was using his email account - uh-huh), and when he saw pictures of me, he was scared shitless of having to meet me. Unfotunately, that relationship didn't last long enough for me to have a chance to visit and meet the nice, young gentleman.

TlalocW