Too, too creepy
Mar. 11th, 2004 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckSo, today, I was working on connecting Vonage. In the process, was on the phone with Vonage tech for well over an hour.
Of course, was fooling with the internet connection in the process. At one point I wanted to be sure that I still had a connection and I sent a random "Hey" to Irving on the IM. Irving is always on IM, in the form of IJS.
I said, "Hey." He said "Hey." Quick small talk as I went back to my tech on the phone.
Later, tech told me to hang up and said he would call back in 15 minutes. So I start talking to IJS about my technological leap. And he asks me if I work for AOL or AIM. Weird question. Then he kept typing wtf. This is not IJS' style, and I teased him about cussing at me. Then he wanted to know what a *snortle* was. So I said between a snort and a chortle. And he *then* wanted to know what a chortle was, aside from a chort (was that the word. I'm blocking now.) Now it was really weird, because IJS would know what a chortle was. You don't chair major academic boards without knowing what a chortle is. You don't aspire to apply to be the president of a university if you don't know what a chortle is. But I think he is teasing, and go ahead and define chortle. Then I asked him what a "chort" or whatever it was would be. And I really didn't want to hear the answer from my 65 year old fatherly former boss. Just didn't. Very much a slash term, if you know what I mean. I didn't even know how to reply. Then he just kept going, flirting with me in the most obscene way.
I finally broke down and said, "I can't believe you said that? Are you really IJS or somebody else?! I'm telling VVT (Irving's wife)!"
Whereupon the person said that he was in fact not IJS, that he had gotten IJS' aim name while IJS kept his hold AOL account.
I was totally creeped out. I blocked IJS from ever IM'ing me or e-mailing me and took him off my buddy list. I was not incognito, of course, because I thought it was IJS! So my real name was right out there. Totally, totally creeped out.
ewwwwwww
Though to be fair, the guy was relatively apologetic at the end and once we established I didn't have a clue what was going on, he did stop the creepy stuff. Finally.
But still.
eEwwwwwww
Of course, was fooling with the internet connection in the process. At one point I wanted to be sure that I still had a connection and I sent a random "Hey" to Irving on the IM. Irving is always on IM, in the form of IJS.
I said, "Hey." He said "Hey." Quick small talk as I went back to my tech on the phone.
Later, tech told me to hang up and said he would call back in 15 minutes. So I start talking to IJS about my technological leap. And he asks me if I work for AOL or AIM. Weird question. Then he kept typing wtf. This is not IJS' style, and I teased him about cussing at me. Then he wanted to know what a *snortle* was. So I said between a snort and a chortle. And he *then* wanted to know what a chortle was, aside from a chort (was that the word. I'm blocking now.) Now it was really weird, because IJS would know what a chortle was. You don't chair major academic boards without knowing what a chortle is. You don't aspire to apply to be the president of a university if you don't know what a chortle is. But I think he is teasing, and go ahead and define chortle. Then I asked him what a "chort" or whatever it was would be. And I really didn't want to hear the answer from my 65 year old fatherly former boss. Just didn't. Very much a slash term, if you know what I mean. I didn't even know how to reply. Then he just kept going, flirting with me in the most obscene way.
I finally broke down and said, "I can't believe you said that? Are you really IJS or somebody else?! I'm telling VVT (Irving's wife)!"
Whereupon the person said that he was in fact not IJS, that he had gotten IJS' aim name while IJS kept his hold AOL account.
I was totally creeped out. I blocked IJS from ever IM'ing me or e-mailing me and took him off my buddy list. I was not incognito, of course, because I thought it was IJS! So my real name was right out there. Totally, totally creeped out.
ewwwwwww
Though to be fair, the guy was relatively apologetic at the end and once we established I didn't have a clue what was going on, he did stop the creepy stuff. Finally.
But still.
eEwwwwwww
