Long lost Relative?!?
Posted 08-27-2009 at 10:19 PM by mrklixx
A while back, I set up a Myspace page, which I immediately abandoned, and never added any friends to, etc etc.
So today I get a message saying "Justine has sent you a message".
I open the message, and it reads:
"hello. I was wondering if you are (my full name). Son of (my mother's name) and (my father's name). I am asking because I believe I am a relative of yours and have been looking fo you. Please respond. This is not a joke."
I got one of these "are you(my name)" before, but it was from someone that I recognised that I went to high school with (and has no intention of "re-connecting" with)
This one, however, is different.
If she is related to me, I would have to guess it is via my father, who divorced my mom when I was like 2, and high tailed it to deadbeat dadtown.
I surfed her myspace page and it looks fairly legit as a personal page with pix of her family and lots of her kid, and no indication of "let me show you how to build personal wealth" kind of scammage.
So, on the one hand, I am mildly intrigued, but on the other hand if it turns out to be true, I don't really know what there would be to talk about concerning a father I know nothing about except he bailed on me for my whole life. For instance if she was to tell me he was dead or dying, I would be like "so?".
Sitting here writing this I'm getting kind of pissed at this stranger for making me think about it.
Freakin' internet.
So today I get a message saying "Justine has sent you a message".
I open the message, and it reads:
"hello. I was wondering if you are (my full name). Son of (my mother's name) and (my father's name). I am asking because I believe I am a relative of yours and have been looking fo you. Please respond. This is not a joke."
I got one of these "are you(my name)" before, but it was from someone that I recognised that I went to high school with (and has no intention of "re-connecting" with)
This one, however, is different.
If she is related to me, I would have to guess it is via my father, who divorced my mom when I was like 2, and high tailed it to deadbeat dadtown.
I surfed her myspace page and it looks fairly legit as a personal page with pix of her family and lots of her kid, and no indication of "let me show you how to build personal wealth" kind of scammage.
So, on the one hand, I am mildly intrigued, but on the other hand if it turns out to be true, I don't really know what there would be to talk about concerning a father I know nothing about except he bailed on me for my whole life. For instance if she was to tell me he was dead or dying, I would be like "so?".
Sitting here writing this I'm getting kind of pissed at this stranger for making me think about it.
Freakin' internet.
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You never know how valuable a connection with your father's family could be, even if you have no interest in your father.
Making people think often has that effect.Quote:Sitting here writing this I'm getting kind of pissed at this stranger for making me think about it.Posted 08-28-2009 at 03:54 PM by inBOIL
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^^ Only matters if he's rich.Posted 08-28-2009 at 05:19 PM by Xerxys
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