Social Media

I no longer do social media. It's got DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN written all over it in blinking neon letters the size of the Hollywood sign.

When I was a teenager, my mother had a good friend. She was a divorced single mom and when I was like sixteen or seventeen, she was in a car wreck.

So she and her boyfriend come to the house and she's having memory issues because of the car wreck and a head injury from it and she is just torn up emotionally about her inability to remember seeing her son off at the airport. 

And talking happens. A lot of other stuff gets talked about and thirty minutes or an hour later she is digging through her purse and says "Oh, I don't HAVE any postage stamps. I gave them to (son's name) at the airport."

And I interrupted her to point out if she gave him the postage stamps at the airport, she had to have seen him off. But I'm like sixteen or whatever and it happened so quick and I'm saying something like "You said you didn't remember..." And her boyfriend gets defensive like I'm calling her a liar and starts explaining head injuries and memory problems to me.

And I don't remember what happened next. I was just trying to point it out in the moment so she would remember having just SAID it. And if she just said it, she MUST have been there and MUST remember it to some degree, so you can stop being eaten up by this while trying to recover from your car accident.

And I feel like 99 percent of my online experiences are me trying to say "Look! You just SAID! So you can feel okay about that." And people shouting me down with "Bitch! She's NOT lying! Don't you know ANYTHING about how head injuries work???!"

Yeah, I do. Sorry your problems run vastly deeper than splatting your brains on a sidewalk in a recent car wreck. Sorry I tried to help. Sorry I Internet met you.

I don't really want to be unbanned from the asshole forums that unjustly shafted me. I just want to win the lottery and wallow in bitterness as a wealthy old woman.