They're Coming After Me

[ricevermicelli]

I've been dodging teenagers online because I have been no use to anyone's crisis lately, and that's what teenagers do online, when they're talking to me - have emergencies.

For reasons escaping my comprehension, information somehow hooked some poor kid looking for a hotline up to my phone number tonight. Twice.

Insert long dialogue here, wherein tearful kid tries not to break down and ask me about boys, and I try not to break down and ask her.

Child has been fobbed off with local youth crisis hotline. I'm turning the ringer off.

I am too nice, and I should be asleep.

Comments

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

Sounds way too much like my old camp counselor days, where I got to play Kindly Old Uncle Scott when I was only 19 or 20, and I was making it up as I went along. The kids thought I was older, and I wasn't going to ruin my credibility.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Oh the image.

Did you have the purple hair then too?

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

Nope, no purple hair in those days. The hair was dark brown and much shorter, above the collar even. The facial hair was present but shorter too. I'm told that I looked a bit like a werewolf.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

And of course, confessing one's troubles to werewolves just exactly suits so many teen sensibilities.

Or adult, for that matter. I'm sure that if I found a sufficiently sympathetic werewolf, I'd do some confessing myself.

"Forgive me werewolf, for I have sinned..."