You may remember my message Friday about getting an "I agree with you" private message from a Facebook friend's sister-in-law after a heated discussion about Sheriff Arpaio. The sister-in-law said she'd never let Debbie know that she agreed with me or, for that matter, that she'd voted for Trump, but she did and she had. That message made my day after the outrage directed at me on the thread by about 100 percent of the respondents.
Well, the thread was popular and continued receiving messages from various liberals. Toward its end, early Saturday morning, one of Debbie's most vulgar friends made a post. Think of "Ann G." as sort of a female zzfart (but I repeat myself).
I don't know Ann, but she's offensive and obnoxious and doesn't miss an opportunity to scream at me on Debbie's threads. I don't usually acknowledge her . . . because she doesn't usually have anything to say. In the wee hours of Saturday, though, she showed up with this as her one and only post:
It made me laugh and I thought nothing of it. When i was going to bed, though, my wife mentioned that she coudn't believe the threat I'd received.
"What threat?" I asked. She pointed it out, so I re-read it and realized that there WAS a threat in it. I hadn't taken it at all seriously, of course, but there's nothing I like more than turning the tables on an idiot. ESPECIALLY when there's some irony to it.
I waited until Sunday night, about 36 hours, then reported Ann's post to Facebook. I doubt anything will come of it and don't really care if it does. Having a Facebook account suspended, which is the worst that might happen, isn't a big deal. But there was a little more to it:
I replied to Ann with the following then went out for dinner:
Did I actually call the police? Of course not. They have important things to do, and I have no intention of wasting their time.
Will Ann know that? Again, of course not. Just as she was bluffing about her "Italian goons," I'm bluffing about calling the cops. See my earlier reference to IRONY.
But reporting her to Facebook might result in her receiving a warning or even a suspension. My hope is that Ann will see that and conclude that I wasn't kidding about the other part either.
As I was enjoying dinner, my wife and I discussed whether Ann was likely to blink. I told my wife, "If she does, it won't be with an apology. She's much too self-righteous for that. She'll say that she was only kidding and call me an idiot for believing her. Or she may ask Debbie to sound me out as to whether I really called the police. But she won't apologize."
Both of the things I speculated about happened. I got home and found a private message from Debbie saying "I apologize for my friend who has gone over the line with her comments."
Ann, in turn, stuck a laughing emoji onto my post and added the following to the thread:
In my opinion, that constitutes a "blink." She tucked her tail between her legs and backed down from the threat. Then she tried to save face with more foulness. I'm used to that. It's what zzfart does.
I won't be responding to her. Maybe if she sweats a while wondering if the police are going to contact her, or if there really is a police report about what she'd written, she won't do it again. I like to help people, and teaching Ann that it's a huge mistake to threaten people would be helpful to her. That's my thinking, anyway.
I did write back to Debbie though, since I expect that Debbie is communicating with Ann tonight. "Sorry about your friend." I said. "She may be in more trouble now than she realizes." Let her pass THAT response Ann's way.
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