affectation.log

Some random girl IMed me tonight. I was actually at the computer so I didn't blow it off. She claimed she'd found me through Face The Jury. Which made me pause, 'cause I couldn't remember what I'd put as my profile. We talked for a while and it was pretty nice. I managed to not let her horrendous typing get to me. Even when it became apparent she meant to talk to someone else, she recovered admirably. [She meant to IM this guy, but just entered his FTJ username into AIM and ended up talking to me.] Her response was:


I know. Her spelling and lack of capitalization and punctuation made me cringe, but I kept talking to her. In the end, I blew it by being a dumbass. Employed a little too much self-deprecating humor, which she interpreted as fishing for compliments, and things spiraled out of control.

The girl isn't important, just some random FTJ user who couldn't type. The important thing is to learn from this mistake.