Because I totally spread a rumor faster than you would believe and it's only 10 a.m.
When I was in college sites like Friendster and Facebook became popular. At first it was really cool. You'd become "friends" with someone you know from college or you used to hang out with in high school. You can read their profiles and see what they're up to, look at their pictures and assess the person they're dating. Fun.
And until Myspace came along, it wasn't too stalker-ish. You could only see a profile of someone who chose to be "friends" with you. Now anyone can see what you put out there and it's pretty freaky. Anyway, rambling...
I still like to look at Facebook because you can choose your privacy settings and still see how everyone is doing. So that's what I was doing this morning when I noticed a family friend (background: the girl is the daughter of my aunt's close friend) had changed her relationship status from "single" to "engaged." I was so surprised! So I emailed my dad and asked him if he had heard anything.
Within minutes there were emails from my dad, my aunt and both my cousins.
"I just talked to her mother!" my aunt exclaimed. "All she said is that she had a sore throat!"
The emails came at rapid fire full of speculation and doubt. And maybe because I have a severe case of Wedding Brain, I wanted to think it might actually be true.
So I went right to the source. Because she's in college and I knew she'd be on IM. I signed on and sure enough, there she was.
Her response? (And this is an exact quote) "HAHHAHAHAHAHAH! NOOOOOOOO it's not true hahahah that is sooooooooooooooooooo funny though Omg I love you! hahah I am not engaged...I dont even have a boyfriend hahahah."
The writer in me cringed reading this. The punctuation! The capitalization! The....oh, wait. She's not engaged? Time for a little damage control.
Out went another email. This time from me saying oops! Just kidding!
And calmness once again resumed. I better start keeping my mouth shut.
Or my fingers quiet. However you want to look at it.
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HA! Too funny. I would do the same thing though. To say you're engaged is newsworhty, no?
I'm only telling you this because I think you would want to know (not because I care, got it?) - reread your header.
Thanks, Sass. And here I am complaining about grammar!
That's why I thought you would want to know =)
nothing like families to fuel the flame of gossip!
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