Sitting in
pine in my
Unix account on my
university system,
minding my own business.
For no apparent reason, somebody will send me the Unix
talk command. It is inevitably a
single guy, usually a
computer geek. Since it's never anyone I've even met, I can only assume that they were
turned on by the fact that I have a
.plan and a
.project. Usually I send them a polite
e-mail saying "
Do I know you? If not, I'm pretty busy. Thanks." Once a guy got
pissed off and started sending me harassing messages all the time. What he didn't know was that
root was my
friend... All I can say is, this is possibly the only thing more
pathetic than trying to form a
meaningful relationship by hanging out in
singles bars. Get a
rudimentary personality.
Yes, I should turn
messages off, but I'm
vaguely amused by the idea that some people have less of a life than I do. And if someone ever replied politely, I might even
chat with them. I'm not
heartless, you know.
P.S. My latest messager
e-mailed me back and said something, in an
English clearly not his
first language, "Sorry, you don't know me. You should feel
compliment because I liked your
finger information." *
Sigh*