Last night, I was host to a heart attack.At 10 at night, I got a text.
A text from a number I did not know.
Within the text was a picture.
Do you want to know what the picture was of?
It was a picture of my son.
There was NO follow-up text from the mystery sender.
Just a picture.
Of MY kid walking around in a park.
You best believe I promptly texted back with,"um, who is this?"
The answer I received read, "Your little bumblebee was at the park today."
Aaaaaand, that was it. THAT all they said.
........OK, so NOW I'm PISSED.
I text back, "YO, WHO IS THIS" really trying to choke down the urge to get ignorant with this mystery stalker.
The answer I received was another picture of my kid walking in the park, but from a different angle.
Okay, so at this point, I'm like utterly FURIOUS.
My husband is in bed with me like, "who the hell are you angrily texting? Why are you out of breath? Who are you threatening to call the FBI on? I'm talking to you, ANSWER ME, DAMMIT."
But I can't hear him over the roar of me cursing at my phone and angrily doing a reverse phone number search on google. But THAT wasn't getting me anywhere. At this point I'm so enraged, I'm channeling Tony Montana, like YOU WANNA PLAY ROUGH? OKAY. So I do what I should've done several minutes earlier and simply called the mystery phone number. THAT would've saved us both a lot of grief, and restored the years that were taken off of my life with this unmitigated panic-attack.
My Step-Grandmother answers the phone, and she is laughing her ass off at my jackassery.
Relieved and shaken, I was like, "jesus woman, I WAS ABOUT TO RAIN A BARRAGE OF DEATH THREATS DOWN UPON YOU."
She says, "you still don't know who this is? why don't you have my cell number saved?"
I'm like, "you're 80-years-old, you're not supposed to have an iphone."
I only have the number to the crusty rotary phone she STILL has mounted to her kitchen wall since the 1970s. Then I text my mom the abridged version of the story, and she texts me back the "laughing so hard at your dumb-ass I'm crying" face. And she says, "you thought Chester the Molester was stalking Brandon at the park and taunting you with pictures, eh?"
I was like, "NOT ON MY WATCH, CHESTER. NOT TODAY."
