do u want to be friends? good friends r hard to come by. we don’t know each other, but can get to know one another. no worries”
That’s a text message I received this morning. From a random somebody. Who maybe just decided to send such messages to phone numbers he makes up.
It might be a bit presumptious of me to assume that it’s a guy. But let’s face it, it’s a he. I can hardly imagine a girl resorting to such methods. In any case, if she does, she should be fired from the female race.
What motivates a person to send a random message like that? How does he know that the recipient of his message is not some crazed serial murderer? Or stalker? Ok, maybe that’s a bit far-fetched in our little mother island.
But what if the recipient is his aunt, cousin, uncle, primary school principle, ex-math tutor, ex-girlfriend’s mother, cousin twice-removed, mother’s colleague, father’s boss, sister’s friend, sargeant, recruit or platoon commander’s wife? In our little mother island, that is NOT too far-fetched.
What are the rates of response? And the rates of success? Success being that he does find a good friend, seeing as that is his agenda.
I should ask him.
But if I do, I will be a contributor to his rate of response. Which is something I don’t want to do.
No encouragement necessary.