Here’s a couple excerpts from a recent encounter:

brbhurtel: hiiiiiii
cary: Hi.
brbhurtel: how about u
cary: What about me?
brbhurtel: where u from
cary: The US.
brbhurtel: propar
brbhurtel: i wetting u from b 5 day
cary: propar? What’s that supposed to mean?
cary: wetting me?
cary: Please don’t, that’s nasty.

brbhurtel: yes

So, maybe I’m being harassed here. I can’t imagine what he meant by ‘wetting’ me. I think most people would agree it sounds nasty though. Maybe it’s code for ‘writing me from Babylon 5’.

A bit later in the conversation, using the term loosely, this exchange occurs after I point out that if he’d stop abbreviating every other work and start using some punctuation I might be able to make better sense out of what he’s typing:

brbhurtel: all are friends
cary: Well , maybe in John Lennon’s dreams…
brbhurtel: i joining now from lebonon
cary: You go, boy.
brbhurtel: u most weel come

I had no idea he’d use John Lennon as a segue into… whatever he’s doing in Lebanon. What a guy.

This is not an atypical converation, I have a couple of these a week.

Now, the people that message me and think I’m someone else, there’s a whole range of types of interaction there. Some think I’m kidding/lying and get pissed. Some think I’ve hijacked their friend/lover/relative’s account and threaten to report me (sometime to their ISP, and not Yahoo!, har). Some accept it quickly and apologize. Some go on and on talking to me, if I give vague or noncommital answers it takes them a while to figure it out (mean, and I can’t help it, it happens so much it becomes a game).

I have a few of these a week, no lie.

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