A most odd and mysterious thing happened to me yesterday...

[Javaman]

and I have to admit, I felt personally satisfied in that get evil sort of way. :evilgrin:

Minding my own business, I get an email forwarded from our HR dept.

Something along the lines of, "I'm looking for Javaman, does he still work there? I need to speak with him right away". It was a personal email, so I write back, stating, "yes, and why?"

I must now take you back into the wayback machine.

Back to the glory days of January '00.

It was a heady time. I was still a filmmaker, dating someone whom I thought loved me (oh no, foreshadowing) and looking forward to a few national commercial spots I was going to shoot.

Out of the blue, I get a phone call.

Him: stay away from my girl friend.

Me: who is this?

Him: do you know ms. so and so?

Me: yes.

Him: stay away from her, she's my girl friend.

Me: hmmm, how long have you been dating her?

Him: 3 months.

Me: (I laugh out loud). You moron, we've been in a relationship for 3 1/2 years. YOU stay away from my girlfriend.

I hung up. I note his number. I call her. She denies everything. then when pressed, gives up the ghost and confesses.

I found out she was a pathological liar. Lucky me. She started dating me while she was still married so some other schlub. LOL (I didn't know that until afer we broke up)

So after many hours and months of therapy, I call the moron back and give him a friendly warning.

Me: dude, cut and run for your life. You will thank me.

Him: fuck you. she left you for a reason.

Me: fine. it's your funeral.

I hang up.

3 years goes by.

I want nothing to do with ms. so and so. But she writes me an email. (this will mean something later)

her email: hi, how have you been? we need to catch up. but if I don't hear back from you, I completely understand.

I delete that email and two others, that come later, without reading them. I loath her.

3 months goes by.

Another email from her: How come you haven't written me back, I don't think that is very polite.

I respond: I'm going to quote you here, "if I don't hear back from you, I completely understand". don't ever write me or try to contact me in anyway. You will be met by a restraining order.

She never wrote back.

Fast forward to yesterday.

The email that I first wrote about at the top of this post? It was from the moron who told me to get away from his girl friend of 3 months. LOL He just found out that she has been cheating on him for the past year and a half with, and get this, a priest!!! LOL

This guy isn't the brightest bulb, but neither was I when I first dated her, but he was with her for almost 10 years!!

He goes on and on about how she's a liar, control freak and admits that he should have listened to me. blah blah blah. but here is the amusing part. He states that he and she were having major problems (apparently they got married) about 4 years ago.

Hmmmm, I scratch my head, that is right around the time she wanted to "know how I was doing and that we should catch up". LOL

He gave me his bizarre tail of woe. I have no sympathy for him or for her. The are currently locked in a massive grudge match of stupidity. I on the other hand escaped completely unscathed (unless you take into account my therapy bills, but no never mind, the sessions also helped me with childhood baggage. Win win in my book. LOL).

This woman is a human plague. She leaves nothing but wrecked emotions in her wake.

Now the one interesting thing that this guy did write to me was: apparently this priest was cut off from the church once it was found out he was sleeping around with married women and also he has a history of questionable funding practices.

So ms. so and so and this crazy ass priest might be made for each other. Or more than likely, she has met her match in this tool, because you see, ms. so and so has a few bucks and I have this feeling that mr. holier than thou is sniffing around for a pay out. I have a feeling he will give her the same emotional screw job that she has done to many a person in the past.

I find myself, while I sit on the side line, smiling and giggling a little over this whole display of buffoonery.

I love my beautiful loving rational wife so much more than ever now. :)

[grace0418]

1. WOW! That's amazing.

You already knew the truth about this woman but it's nice to get confirmation from others. Too bad that dude didn't listen.

My story pales in comparison but I had a nice call like that once. I took a job, many years ago, managing a local store that I had previously loved. It's a place that has new items plus tons of wacky surplus items. Gearheads, scientists and artists all love this store (and, I later found out, so do crackheads and meth addicts) for all the cool junk and gadgets you can get there very cheap.

I took over the store from a guy who had been "managing" it for something like 15 years. He was finally moving up to the corporate office. What I didn't know until I started was that he pretty much squirreled away anything he didn't feel like dealing with, and it fell into my lap when I started. I was supposed to whip the store into shape, but also act like he'd left me a store that was already in perfect shape. :eyes: On top of all that, truckloads of new items would come in every week. The regular items were fine, but all the surplus had to be sorted, priced, and stocked in some sort of logical fashion in the store. I also had to keep inventory, handle customers, do the books and ordering, schedule employees, and clean the store. I was completely overwhelmed in a very short amount of time.

The guy that actually hired me was also new to the company, hired as a general manager to all three locations (my store, which was the main store, and two newer stores nearby). When I started complaining about being overwhelmed there was a lot of snickering from the higher ups and the former manager, acting like I was some sort of failure. Even the general manager that hired me was annoyed and a bit incredulous when I finally put in my notice.

Well, a few months later that general manager called me at home. Turns out he had to manage the store after I left until they could find a replacement. He profusely apologized for doubting me when I told him that no one person could handle all the shit left behind by the previous manager in addition to all the daily functions of the store. He was completely overwhelmed himself, and was looking for a new job.

That felt good.

[Javaman]

2. I bet it was a nice feeling knowing that you were really the sane one of the bunch.

I like to call the moral affirmation. :)

[grace0418]

4. Exactly. It's something you already knew, but it's still nice to get that backed

up by someone else.

[gratuitous]

3. To quote Ron White

Psycho women love me. But that's all I'll say about that. :scared:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

5. A massive grudge match

of stupidity. You turn a fine phrase my friend :)