More Tales of the City

From a couple weeks ago, well worth sharing

Okay, I'm pretty sure this didn't happen to you on your evening commute home tonight.

So I'm going home from work, and I come out of the subway to where I transfer to my bus to go up to Twin Peaks. I have my MP3 player blasting Celia Cruz to avoid any possible interaction with my fellow man and practicing my German flash cards on my PDA. Appropriately as "einigartig" pops up (it means "strange"), a woman comes running up to me. "Excuse me" she says as I dim Seniorita Cruz down to a low murmur. "Is this where you catch the 37 up to Parkridge and Burnett?" "Yes" I say. "Oh good. I'm a bit lost, so I'm gonna turn around and I'll be right back." As I'm wondering what in the hell she's talking about, I watch her run across Market Street to -a running Muni Bus, get in and start driving it-! I couldn't believe my eyes. Did they not even give this woman a route map? Is she just aimlessly driving an unsupervised city bus around San Francisco wondering where to go? Sure enough, a few minutes later she pulls up with the 37 and picks us all up. (You may wonder why I didn't wait for the next bus and braved it instead? It was half an hour until the next one!) I watched her as she had to have fellow passengers tell her where to go, as she barreled past requested stops and stopped in other places in undesignated areas. Finally she made it to my stop, and I ran out the door and up the stairs to tell the story while it was still fresh in my head.

This City never ceases to entertain me. :-)

My E-bay account has been hacked by Puritans!

So I was on e-bay today looking for some stuff I saw in Europe but didn't have a chance to buy when I was there. I had never actually bought anything on E-Bay. So when I went to register, it said I was already registered. Hmmm, I don't ever remember registering. So I requested, what's my username? It sends me back a message: wilandmari. What?!? So I did a google search on this mysterious character and it came back with one hit: The Puritan Board. As it turns out, there's a member on the Puritan Board with the same username, registered to a Joe and Mary Carlin of god knows where, who's email address is joeandmarycarlin@yahoo.com. What I'm thinking happened is forever ago they registered with Hotmail, registered with e-bay and then let the Hotmail account lapse. I then come along, register my name. Which is really odd, because I was wondering why I was getting spam within hours of registering with Hotmail. (Explains why they stopped using it too, because it was the "You need a big big penis" type spam too, which honestly I've been very, very happy with the size of penis.)

Anyways, so I was able to find a few posts on this wilandmari user on this Puritan board:

"I have been studying the issue of whether bith control is a sin for over 6 years now. I have read hundreds of books and articles from Catholic, Protestant, secular, ancient, contemporary, conservative and liberal authors. I started out to prove to a Catholic friend of mine that the pill does not cause abortions. We were on the pill at the time. We now have 6 kids and I grow more and more convinced the longer I study the issue that birth control is not only a sin, but among the worst if the the worst plagues on our society today. I will share my reasons for this belief one at a time for as long as anyone wishes to continue this discussion. One of the most convincing arguments has to be that jews, catholics and protestants universally condemned artificial birth control from the beginning of history until about 70 years ago. The modern acceptance of "birth control" (a term coined by Margret Sanger of Planned Parenthood) goes against thousands of years of church history. Why the change?"

*gag gag gag* Oh my freakin' God. I wonder if these Puritan people have any idea that their former email account is now being used by some heathenist homosexual living in wild abandonment in the Sodom by the Sea San Francisco? (In truth, I was actually going to use it for shopping for skinhead gear at that!)

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go clense myself from such purtianistic heathens according to my own beliefs and go commit sodomy right now with someone I've never met before and who's name I'll never know. (Extra points if I never see their face.) *lol* :-)

----Original Message Follows----
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Subject: eBay User ID Reminder
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:53:11 -0800


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