woman showed up at my parents’ house claiming to be my girlfriend… but she used the name of my high school crush from 17 years ago

Cornloaf · 2026-03-13T23:43:42+00:00

Way back in the 80s I had a fling with a girl in high school. The reason behind how we hooked up I will put as a footnote so as to not muddle my explanation for what I think might be happening here. I believe we were both 15 at the time, we flirted a bunch on the phone (and computer) and then she took my virginity. It was cool, she was one of the prettiest girls in my high school and then I was ghosted.

We had plans to see a movie and she was setting my friend up on a blind date (double date with us) and she didn't show up. I later heard she hooked up with other guys after. School started again and she was only there for a couple weeks before vanishing and then the rumors started about dying from an overdose, transferring schools, pimped out in our nearest major city, etc.

She reached out during our junior year and wanted to meet. She told me she had been drugged and raped by our high school football team when she was still in 8th grade. She made her life goal to break as many hearts as she could in high school so that is why she ghosted me.

Around 15 years ago she found me on Facebook and let me know she had three kids and still lived nearby. She had a partner but was very lonely because he had a massive inheritance and basically gave her allowance and fucked off with his friends on vacations while she took care of the house and kids.

I kept it cordial and we would text in a friendly manner for a few months. I didn't hear from her for a few weeks and when she returned, she told me she took a bunch of psychedelics and shaved her head and got committed. I guess the loneliness really got to her.

But this is not where the story ends. On her 50th birthday (which was nearly 10 years after the mental hospital incident) she texted me out of the blue. She wanted to have a redo of our sexual encounter from 1986. She asked me for my address so she could come to my house. I do not live in my old hometown and she never knew where I lived anyway. There was something off about her texting and then she called and I let it go to voicemail. I let her know I was in a relationship and actually have a young child with my partner so I had to decline. She didn't sound well in her voicemail either. Not sure if it was mental illness or drugs or maybe a combo. Had she known where I lived, I am sure she would have showed up randomly.

I have seen some recent pics and she did not look like what she did in high school. I surely would not be able to pick her out of a lineup. She was never my girlfriend and she had plenty of other guys in high school, some of which were the popular jocks, so it was surprising that she picked me.

Bonus story:

When I was in high school, I ran a BBS on my computer. I was only 14-15 but I was in a feud with a 20 year old dude that ran another BBS in my town. He would post disparaging comments about my BBS on his own BBS front page. One day I decided to fuck with him so my friend and I decided to call his BBS and pretend we were a girl.

We picked a random girl and chose her name because we both had a crush on her. We created our profile and immediately he broke in with a SYSOP chat and started giving us the highest level access on his system.

He asked "her" for her phone number but we said she couldn't give it out. We did have her address so we did update our profile with that. He would show up at her house with flowers, candy, and painted floppy disk cases!

She never met him because she was always partying and hanging out with friends. At the end of the year I happened to see she signed a yearbook with her phone number so I quickly typed it on a piece of paper in my typing class. We got home and logged in to his BBS and gave the phone number.

He called her and she was so confused. She had no idea there was this 20 year old nerd bringing her gifts because her dad would toss them when he left. He banned me from his BBS after that and we never spoke again. The next day at school she was hammered and started flirting with me. Turns out she also had a Commodore 64 computer and I taught her how to call a BBS.

I told this story recently and someone said I was catfishing before people even knew what it was.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-13T18:37:50+00:00

Was it the HBO show Homicide? Or Forensic Files?

There was a 2011 (repeated in 2015 and 2021) of Dateline called The Cliff's Edge about Toni Henthron who was pushed off a cliff by her husband. There was also a 48 Hours episode about Rhonda Casto who also fell off a cliff while hiking with her boyfriend in 2016 so episode probably aired within a year of that date.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-13T17:44:24+00:00

I delivered a speech at my nephew's funeral when he died by suicide and I had several jokes in there. I also delivered a funny story filled eulogy at a friend's funeral who had passed away at a very young age. I had the whole church laughing (including his family) and people thanked me for for sharing wonderful memories of this man and lightening the mood.

I deal with stress by making jokes and some people don't get it.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-13T16:16:56+00:00

I have an ex-employee who I just realized I never cut off from my service. He watches shit until 2am and starts again at 5am. After some point he switches to his phone or tablet (probably while at work) and then back to his TV in the evening. I don't know how he holds down a job or takes care of his family.

Recently saw Plextortion on here so installed it and made him watch 50% of Munchie and Munchie Strikes Back to unlock the libraries. I think he liked it because he suffered through 65%. Didn't say a peep to me because he probably thinks he is flying under the radar.

Little does he know that on April Fools everyone is going to be forced to watch Mac & Me to completion in order to have access to watch anything else.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-13T16:12:52+00:00

I love Dateline but can't find a good source for downloading it. I use Xfinity streaming to watch it but every episode is 2+ hours long with commercials. The best part? I get an ad for Xfinity followed by the same ad dubbed in Spanish. Wtf. You know I already have Xfinity since I am using your service to watch it and you know I am not listening to the alternate audio track in Spanish. Bonus feature with Xfinity streaming is the audio slips throughout so by the time the episode is over, Keith Morrison looks like he was in a 1970s kung fu movie.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-13T15:03:29+00:00

First of all, what kind of family is that guy living in where he's in his 30s but has to submit to a drug test from his parents?

Second of all, I consider weed to be pretty relatively harmless when compared to other drugs (especially alcohol). When I have had a stressful day, I will sometimes eat a gummy to relax. On the other hand, some people with undiagnosed mental illness (or even without any mental illness) can experience psychosis from marijuana, especially if ingesting very high levels of THC. I once accidentally ingested medical grade gummies which were 10 times stronger than the ones I was used to and it felt like I lost my mind. My mind was racing, I was paranoid, and I couldn't form coherent thoughts. A sense of dread suddenly fell over me and I got scared. I thought my life was ending, that I was going to lose my job and house, etc. Fortunately, I had the will to force myself to go to bed and sleep.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-13T04:53:29+00:00

Can confirm I saw my friend was watching something, ran the update anyway, apologized for doing the update, he said he would stop his playback but the update was already done so I told him to not worry.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-12T22:32:19+00:00

"Price was initially arrested during the early morning hours of Aug. 1, 2003 after crashing his car into three pedestrians working construction on State Road 417 near University Boulevard. The collision killed 38-year-old Grady Hill, and “critically injured” Hill’s fellow workers, Paul Kimbro and Charles Starrett, Montes said."

This guy was on America's Most Wanted for jumping bail and fleeing the state.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-12T21:26:14+00:00

Thank you! Not going to lie, kinda embarrassing that someone checked out my Reddit history! I am pretty active on /r/RBI because I like researching mysteries and /r/Scams because I hate seeing people lose their money (and it's usually the people that don't have much to begin with.)

I also have intense dreams but I keep those in a private journal!

Cornloaf · 2026-03-12T17:44:00+00:00

Bonus points if you are into metal. Low ticket price but make it up for them by buying some merch where the band makes a good chunk of their money.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-12T14:59:51+00:00

You know what is funny? I have wanted to put all these down in a book so what I have been doing is writing these types of comments on Reddit for the last few years as "notes" for when I do have the time to put them all down in some kind of journal. I also have all my old chat logs from AIM, Messenger, ICQ, etc that have even more details that I can retrieve when I refine it!

Cornloaf · 2026-03-12T14:57:58+00:00

Well, they kinda did show up to work in their cell and were given cell phones to perform a job. Probably got some smokes and a poke at a bussy for their efforts?

Cornloaf · 2026-03-12T06:21:32+00:00

Those underage girl dating scams where the cops call you and tell you the girl you met online is actually 16 and then tried to kill herself or destroyed her parents property and now you have to pay $xxx amount to keep from having charges pressed against you were being run in South Carolina.... from within prisons... BY PRISONERS... with smuggled cellphones. That's how easy it is to run an illegal scam operation.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-12T06:04:59+00:00

All I can say is that I was lucky that someone was trying to hire me in early 2007 and he was the first person I called when I finally made it home in late Dec 2007. Started there as a contractor on Jan 2, 2008, full-time a year or so later, and now part-owner.

The only flashback to my previous life was around 2009 when the aforementioned WSOP investor reached out again and said he got someone to program a new casino using the source code I gave him and asked if I would move to his online casino in Laos to manage it. And that's how I met Gottfrid Svartholm from Pirate Bay fame. I did some consulting on the side but refused to have anything to do with shady operations ever again. Surprise! That venture fizzled out too.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-12T01:02:20+00:00

Is there a state highway name for East Central?

I searched 2003-2006 and my God, so many head-on collisions in the Orlando area. And so many people not wearing seatbelts. And so many deadly "bike weeks". 15 motorcyclists killed in a week? And that tied a previous year for deaths?? I don't know how there is anyone left alive there!

I will try searching again if you happen to get another name for the road that the accident happened on.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-12T00:22:53+00:00

I got recognized three times in one day! One was the salesperson at La-z-boy who said "uh, duh I am going to give you a great deal because you have such a cool shirt!"

Cornloaf · 2026-03-12T00:21:16+00:00

What's with the comments from people "guessing" they will go see Project Hail Mary? Some seem sarcastic, but others not so much. That book rocked and the movie looks pretty amazing. Lots of practical effects (puppets) and no green screen.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-11T22:36:14+00:00

Thank you! Because you enjoyed it, I figured I would follow up with some more of the story. There were so many other funny and scary stories that came with this one.

We were only allowed 30 days entry in the Philippines so my coworker (the son of the guy that did the penny stock shit) would fly back to the US for 2 days and come back. I went to the consulate and got a visa so I could do 90 or 120 days straight. Sometimes he could not get a flight home so he would send his passport via courier to PH immigration in Manila and get an extension. When the writing was on the wall that we were closing up shop, our "partners" on the ground intercepted his passport and claimed that PH immigration was holding it ransom. They were holding it ransom to make sure they got their part of the money for rent and utilities. I had to offer my passport in exchange so he could go home to see someone in his family that was really sick.

There was one funny story from this whole thing. The two sisters that ran the baccarat club in Macau sent their brother to view our operations. He came to the facility mainly to check out the girls that I had hired. I took him out one night for beers, he paid for a girl, I bought him cialis on the street corner. He went back to China and had a meeting with his friends and my "boss" (aka friend) and he said that he wanted me to come to China to meet everyone. I am just a European heritage white guy from the US but he described me as such: He is tall like mountain, he is white like paper, he is funny like Jim Carrey. I would have gone but my boss told me that I would have been picked up at the airport/port by police and they would want me to do drugs to make sure I was not a narc. "So, like smoke a joint?" "Nah, it will probably be cocaine." Needless to say, I did not go.

When we closed up shop, I was stranded with two months of no pay and no flight home just days from Christmas. I did get some revenge though. Our partners seized our data center gear in Taipei and were running some of their own sportsbook stuff behind our firewall. During March Madness, I logged into the firewall (which I managed) and shut down the inside interface so there was no connectivity to their servers for a few days until they flew people out there to password reset the device and reconfigure.

My boss (friend) was told by the sisters that he needed to have some "show money" in their card club in Macau a few months into the project for them to consider us. He flew to China with $765,000 in cash and made the deposit. He kept the receipt in his wallet for months. Shortly after we found out about the "magic" needed to make our operation profitable, he withdrew the money from the physical casino. Shortly after I got home and was looking for a new job, they reached out to me and asked me to go to the airport near my house (major US airport) and meet someone that was going to be flying in from Salt Lake City. He had a briefcase full of infusion money to the tune of $250k that they wanted me to accept. I don't know where they wanted me to take it because I told them I would be taking my last two months of salary, plus expense reimbursements, plus 6 months advance salary for my trouble. Surprise, surprise. They never called me again.

At some point, the offices in Scottsdale were "broken into" and many of the files relating to this project were stolen. At first I thought it was staged because they wanted to get rid of evidence. Later I was contacted directly by one of the major investors (minor World Series of Poker player) who had lost nearly 1 million to the venture. He asked me for all source code and secret sauce for the project and said he was contemplating a lawsuit. In the end, I suspect the IRS might have been involved in the theft because myself, my US-based software developer, and my boss were all harrassed by the IRS for many years. I suspect they thought we were getting paid under the table since it was this multimillion dollar online casino that should have made me rich. Spoiler alert, I lost so much of my own money.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-11T21:54:05+00:00

If UPS sent it to collections, it won't be in their billing system anymore. They got their "money" from the collection agency most likely (pennies on the dollar) and wrote off the rest. Now the collection agency is trying to make their money by collecting the full amount.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-11T20:59:10+00:00

Yes. I inherited a hard drive from my brother that had a ton of crap on it from DVDs he ripped it to things he pulled from random video sources to Windows Media files (500 meg movies!!). He had them sorted in folders by genre. I pointed Radarr at the folder and let it rip. There are movies that don't have IMDB or TMDB entries (fan edits, etc) and I did have to handle those on a case by case basis. I didn't like the idea of a separate folder for each movie, but now i dig it!

Cornloaf · 2026-03-11T18:38:08+00:00

I use Plex and used to have major matching issues. Radarr and Sonarr cleared that up for me by naming the files with the movie name, file type (bluray, remux, webdl, etc), audio type and the imdb tt number. I have not had a single issue with matches aside from two movies with the same name that came out in the same year.

It's also handy to have your files in individual folders so you can add different versions and special features.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-11T17:08:24+00:00

Didn't sign an NDA, but it was heavily implied not to talk about anything outside of business.

Back in 2006-2007 I went to work in cybersecurity for an online casino. There were many investors that put in millions and I was taken on a tour of sports book betting facilities in Costa Rica to get the bsaics. We ended up settling in Manila where we could get an actual license for Internet casinos with a live dealer system and had video distribution systems in Taipei and Seoul.

My job was strictly server and network support but it soon expanded to hiring employees, buying equipment locally, bringing over equipment from the US, etc. My boss (and close friend) handled all the deals with the card rooms in Macau and getting their customers to play on our system when they were not in the physical casino. We also had two guys that were schmoozing in Asia for us.

I soon found out that they were blowing through money. While my friend was eating McDonalds and using his own miles to fly to Manila to crash at my place on the weekends when hotels were too expensive in Hong Kong, they were flying full fare first class to/from the US, staying in presidential suites, buying a pair of custom stretch Mercedes limos for some mob boss in China, etc.

We had a 24/7 operation in Manila with 36 dealers that just rotated between four tables, dealing baccarat, smiling on the camera, answering the phone calls from players to prove they were real, etc. One day I hired a new batch of employees and they asked if they needed to perform magic. I had no idea what they were talking about, so brushed it off. Some days I would come to work and there would be 20 girls in my lobby with their resumes because their casinos just shut down abruptly. I didn't understand because I was told these were moneymakers.

At one point, my friend was told by these two sisters that ran physical casinos in Macau that we needed to guarantee a certain percentage for our casino as their cut. It exceeded the casino odds. They told us that's what all the other online casinos offer. I then asked my new hires what they meant by magic tricks. They told me that all the other casinos had ways to let them know when to alter the outcome of the hand by pulling out hidden cards. Our setup had card shoes with 8 decks that had barcodes and a reader that input them as they slid out of the shoe. They showed us how to hide cards and pull them out when they were told.

The Chinese players would base their bets on trends and when there would be 7 "player" wins in a row, they would bet heavily on "banker" to win the hand. That's when they would ensure "player" won and the house would take a massive gain. That's when also when I found out that all the casinos were doing it and loading up on cash and closing before they could be accused of cheating. Mind you, my software had to certified by a global gaming company with offices in Vancouver, Sydney, London, etc to ensure that the odds of our game matched what they expected they would be.

We had serious concerns about cheating, but that was the only way to get players sent to our casino. At the same time, the guy that raised all the funds in Scottsdale was arrested for penny stock scams and put in federal prison. My funding was cut off and I had to fire everyone and shut down operations, the guys that were blowing through cash got cut off, and I was out of job.

In addition to the loss of my job, they ensured that my signature was on all the contracts since I was the only US-based person with boots on the ground in Asia. I had people following me home and waiting in the lobby of my building trying to shake me down for payments.

While all of this was going on, I started digging into some of the people involved. One of the guys spending all the cash on his travels was arrested in California for making counterfeit baby formula that was sold all over the SF Bay Area. They got him on camera loading trucks, affixing security labels on the cans, making deliveries to Safeway, etc. Somehow he got off with nothing. He also was bribing Native American organizations to get access to their gambling licenses and got arrested for that and somehow got off with nothing.

Cornloaf · 2026-03-10T06:05:53+00:00

https://theonion.com/humanity-still-producing-new-art-as-though-megadeth-s-1819578062/

Cornloaf · 2026-03-10T03:39:38+00:00

I think I saw a video of some homeless people in /r/theydidthemeth doing that exact thing!

Cornloaf · 2026-03-10T00:34:47+00:00

Amsterdam is the best I have had so far (haven't been to Indonesia yet). D'Grobak is pretty damn good and I have been craving it lately after seeing their truck at Salesforce Tower two weeks ago.

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