LARP Stalker
I keep entering photos into Drs. Foster and Smith's anniversary contest in hopes that I will win a big gift certificate to their online store. Then I can buy all kinds of awesome stuff for my cats, like "Salmon Fishies", "Da Bird" toy with "da bee" add on, and some cozy cushions. The newest catalog has a blanket you can customize with a photo of your cat. It looks totally sweet and is really something an old woman would buy, but I fucking want it. It's like $140 dollars, though, so I seriously need that gift certificate! Maybe my photo choice for this month, Squeek snuggling a stuffed monkey, will win it for me. =)
So here's a weird story that I'd like people to weigh in on. David did this LARP (live action role-playing) thing called "Mystical Journeys", where people dressed as orcs and such and bopped each other with foam swords, a long time ago with his friends. At this event, they met a 36 year-old woman whose character name was Pearl. She took a liking to David and has never been very subtle about it. He hasn't seen her in quite a while and probably will never see her again, but she persists in trying to contact him via messages on Facebook, Myspace, etc, even repeatedly asking for his phone number from his friends. David cooked up some lie about hating to talk on the phone, so luckily she has never gotten access to his number. But recently, she decided to friend me on both Myspace and Facebook, and has sent me a few messages which I have ignored up til this point. She asked me to have David call her "because she had some things to get off her chest" (??). I debated sending a response, but didn't.
A day or so ago, I found a new message in my Facebook inbox from her, saying she didn't know if I had gotten her Myspace message, and she had this housewarming gift she had wanted to give to David, and that she hoped to come visit us soon. She also wrote, "And David still hasn't called me, don't know why, unless he just really hates talking on the phone." Gee, I don't know why either, it couldn't be because you're a middle-aged, uncomfortably persistent creep who pretends to be an elven princess on weekends and cannot seem to take a HINT. I wish I were a bastard and could just tell her to get a freakin' clue, because she is annoying me at this point, for real real.
So my question to you...what would you do in this situation? I started to write a response on Facebook, in my typical "I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings" tone (meaning "hi, sorry for the belated response, don't know why David hasn't called you, hope you're doing well!") but then I backed out of it because I imagined a civil response leading to her asking for my phone number. I don't know if I should politely tell her to take a hike, ignore her completely, or what. Ideally, I should not have accepted her friend requests in the first place, but I guess my morbid curiosity about her got the better of me.
Thoughts?
So here's a weird story that I'd like people to weigh in on. David did this LARP (live action role-playing) thing called "Mystical Journeys", where people dressed as orcs and such and bopped each other with foam swords, a long time ago with his friends. At this event, they met a 36 year-old woman whose character name was Pearl. She took a liking to David and has never been very subtle about it. He hasn't seen her in quite a while and probably will never see her again, but she persists in trying to contact him via messages on Facebook, Myspace, etc, even repeatedly asking for his phone number from his friends. David cooked up some lie about hating to talk on the phone, so luckily she has never gotten access to his number. But recently, she decided to friend me on both Myspace and Facebook, and has sent me a few messages which I have ignored up til this point. She asked me to have David call her "because she had some things to get off her chest" (??). I debated sending a response, but didn't.
A day or so ago, I found a new message in my Facebook inbox from her, saying she didn't know if I had gotten her Myspace message, and she had this housewarming gift she had wanted to give to David, and that she hoped to come visit us soon. She also wrote, "And David still hasn't called me, don't know why, unless he just really hates talking on the phone." Gee, I don't know why either, it couldn't be because you're a middle-aged, uncomfortably persistent creep who pretends to be an elven princess on weekends and cannot seem to take a HINT. I wish I were a bastard and could just tell her to get a freakin' clue, because she is annoying me at this point, for real real.
So my question to you...what would you do in this situation? I started to write a response on Facebook, in my typical "I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings" tone (meaning "hi, sorry for the belated response, don't know why David hasn't called you, hope you're doing well!") but then I backed out of it because I imagined a civil response leading to her asking for my phone number. I don't know if I should politely tell her to take a hike, ignore her completely, or what. Ideally, I should not have accepted her friend requests in the first place, but I guess my morbid curiosity about her got the better of me.
Thoughts?