When phone number recycling goes bad

[Zuul]

Shortly after I got my cellphone, I discovered that the woman who had used my number before me didn't inform anyone that she had changed numbers. All of her friends kept trying to call her. This was mildly irritating, but I could tell them that I wasn't Aimee and they'd go on their merry way.

More obnoxious was the fact that this woman apparently signed up for every stupid text spamming thing out there. I get text messages every day advertising different things. She gets a lot of telemarketers, too. And debt collectors. Those are more fun than the text messages or friends, though. I can vent my frustration on them without feeling like an asshole. "NO. I am NOT Aimee. I don't even know WHO THE FUCK THAT IS."

But the best is that she didn't change her access to her Twitter account when she got rid of this number.

Yes, that's right. I can update somebody else's Twitter account. I tested it a few times, watching my text updates disappear into the ether, then tried posting specific turns of phrase to search the Twitter database for, so that eventually I was able to find my own tweets and the account they were associated with. I posted several times to her account saying to please, please change the phone number associated with that account so I could put it on my own. But, apparently she had abandoned that Twitter account.

So. I did a great deal of searching and finally found her MySpace account. I went on there and sent her a message, explaining the problem with the phone. She never responded.

My phone is still tied up with her account. I tried contacting Twitter, several times, and yet nothing was done. I don't own her account, you see. I can't change settings on it. Never mind that I can apparently post to it freely.

If I want mobile access, I would actually have to go and get a new phone number. :Shake:

[OneCentStamp]

I'm telling you: the only rational course of action here is to start putting up a litany of tweets so bizarre, so alarming, and so potentially incriminating, that Aimee's friends and family have no other recourse than to book her a surprise appearance on Intervention or The Dr. Phil Show.

[Zuul]

I'm telling you: the only rational course of action here is to start putting up a litany of tweets so bizarre, so alarming, and so potentially incriminating, that Aimee's friends and family have no other recourse than to book her a surprise appearance on Intervention or The Dr. Phil Show.

Alas, the problem with that is I already updated that Twitter account with something along the lines of, "This isn't my account. My username is Caerie." so that I could do a search for it and find out where the texts were going. It'd be incriminating toward me.

[OneCentStamp]

You're a great gal, and Aimee is lucky to have you.

[OtakuLoki]

I'd go the opposite direction than what OneCentStamp is suggesting: tweet about going for daily Eucharist services; tweet about volunteering at the soup kitchen; tweet about your 'adopted' Malaysian kid you send money for; tweet about every saccharine thing you can imagine - and end each tweet with the phrase: "What have you done for Christ today?"

I figure this may well be more annoying and frightening to Aimee's friends and family than any amount of bestiality or suicide pact tweeting might ever be.

[Cluricaun]

You just don't want us to have any fun. I've been thinking about this all day and I have some great, really blockbuster ideas to use on this. Cluricaun and Onecentstamp Ruin A Life would make great front page material you know.

[Zuul]

What do you suggest I do, Cluricaun? Particularly since I outted myself before hyjinks ever crossed my mind. Multiple personalities, mayhaps?

[OneCentStamp]

What do you suggest I do, Cluricaun? Particularly since I outted myself before hyjinks ever crossed my mind. Multiple personalities, mayhaps?

You could be the harbinger of a new meme/mental illness: twitzophrenia - a disorder characterized by multiple distinct personalities manifesting in the patient's real life and Twitter personae.

[Cluricaun]

What do you suggest I do, Cluricaun? Particularly since I outted myself before hyjinks ever crossed my mind. Multiple personalities, mayhaps?

"Sometimes cutting myself is the only way I can feel anything at all"

[OneCentStamp]

"Sometimes cutting myself is the only way I can feel anything at all"

"If Tony wants me to take that damn Valtrex then HE can pay for it, since it was HIS brother who gave me this shit in the first place."

[Zuul]

My RL friend's suggestion:

"Just slept with my husband's BFF. He's even smaller. "

[Cluricaun]

"If Tony wants me to take that damn Valtrex then HE can pay for it, since it was HIS brother who gave me this shit in the first place."

"Please contact city hall and demand that the Klan be allowed to march next month! We're protecting everyone's future."

[What Exit?]

You people are evil minded ...




but very funny.

[Zuul]

Or, I could use it to my financial advantage.

"Buy adspace here!"

[Cluricaun]

"Sorry neighbors, but I'm the reason that all your pets have been going missing. I warned you."

[OtakuLoki]

"Sorry neighbors, but I'm the reason that all your pets have been going missing. I warned you."

"Don't forget to join me for the potlach dinner this Friday!"

[Cluricaun]

"Today I found out that the dog really, really likes peanut butter..wink wink."

[Glazer]

More obnoxious was the fact that this woman apparently signed up for every stupid text spamming thing out there. I get text messages every day advertising different things. She gets a lot of telemarketers, too. And debt collectors.

Thus her need for a new number.

[Hatshepsut]

"Picked up a backpack someone left on the bus and it has like 100,000 dollars in it!"

Not nearly as hysterical as the excellent tweets above, but calculated to get a response.

[The Original An Gadaí]

I got the number 8675209, and it's been a nightmare.

[resigned]

Invite everyone over via text message and twitter for a "big party" with "free beer" at "Aimee's house" tonight at 8:00pm