picklehammer

Dear OceanSkys, everyone else is posting a question with this morbid curiousity that we all share. It is making me so sad. And I know that doesn't matter, with you dying soon and all, but what's your favourite Pokemon and why?

Just in case you're up for another story, I was once stalked by someone who I never expected to stalk me. I did a radio show on a university radio station - nothing much, an hour a week. A woman who seemed extremely well-versed in manipulation/communication tactics (the opposite of your stalker?) visited the station and implied to them that she was a friend of mine and implied to me that she was involved with the station. She mentioned some moments about my show that proved that she was a regular listener too. So yes, this woman sat in the studio while I was confusedly doing my radio show. It's normal to have off-mic guests so I didn't think too much of it. I don't know if a physical description is necessary but she was middle-aged, large-chested and moderately attractive.

But her behaviour was confusing. She discussed her son at length and the similarities I had to him but she used provocative language and body motions and kept talking about "us" and trying to make plans for "the two of us". I found the whole situation to be kind of off-putting and stressful but my show was soon over and I said some quick "yeah, yeah, have a good night" to get out of there as she bombarded me with questions. I kind of hoped it would be the last I saw of her and I wasn't very direct with her that the whole thing was weird. I was scared.

She was there next week. With her son. I told her that "this is the last time" since apparently she promised to her son that he would be able to check things out. She proceed to flirt with me and said how the three of us should go to a specific concert while her son remained silent. Some people speculate that she was trying to make friends for her son but I think she used him as a tool to relate to me.

Then she started calling and emailing. I never gave her my email. Saying she was buying me tickets to do things with her. And the radio station manager contacted me saying a strange woman was asking a lot of questions about me. I started getting terrified and told her to not contact me anymore. She got hostile and accused me of becoming a jerk and a bad person and insensitive and stuff. Then she got me a shirt from a metal concert (still have it!) and left it for me at the station as a weird present-of-guilt. Like "look what you missed out on". I sat down with the station manager and had to explain that I accidentally seem to have acquired a stalker and she was subsequently banned from the station. Luckily, that was the last I heard of her.

It's funny. Sometimes I wonder if I passed up an opportunity, but the feeling at the time was way more confusion and terror than interest in this woman, even though I confess that she was physically attractive. The whole thing was too weird and I'm glad it didn't get any more threatening than the brief burst of attacks on my character.

PICARD (V.O.)

Captain's log: Stardate 44429.6.

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This is pretty much what I gathered from her fairly blatant advances. She wanted something between a lover and a copy of her son and she was big on offering things of monetary value to achieve this.