So okay, I really don’t know how to explain what you’re about to because it can only be described as ridiculously unpossible. Let’s let the notorious EAP take a crack at it …
“For the most wild yet homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not—and very surely do I not dream.”
Yeah, that’s straight Poe, lifted without edit (but with credit) from “The Black Cat.”
Anywhoo, a few weeks ago I started getting texts from a random number. Of course, I ignored the messages at first, figuring it was a scammer or some sort of Russian-fueled AI bot. But one text sorta caught my eye—it was a bit … odd … and didn’t seem like a scam. Or if it was scam, it was incredibly original. And then I got another intriguing one. And then another.
Eventually, my well-documented curiosity reared its irrepressible head, and like Poe entreating the stranger who came rapping, gently tapping, at his chamber door, I responded. And then they responded back, and then I responded to the response, and so on. But rather than crafting one of the most iconic poems of the English language, I instead made an iconic new … uh … friend?
An unlikely new one at that, to say the least.
Short story long, I was eventually able to confirm the identity of my new text pal after exchanging multiple messages, info, images and more. And trust me, it’s just … weird. And it’s crazy. And .. well … did I mention it’s weird?
Okay …
You know what? It’s just easier me to share some screen shots. I won’t waste your time with all the “getting to know you” exchanges, and just sort of jump in to where it starts getting interesting.
My responses are in blue on the right. And I apologize in advance for my new friend‘s comments on the left, but I feel like this … needs to be shared? Yeah, let’s go with that.
Yeah … it’s been going on like this for a few weeks now.
Yeah, so much #winning.
Anyway, my friend seems happy to overshare, so I assume there will be more to this at some point. Yay?