1000 natural shocks

So one sunny day in September, Tingle is surprised by an invite from the all-knowing Lokster. The invitation was to join hi5 this strange friends network thing that I had cunningly managed to evade for months despite getting between two and three invites from less_respected acquaintances.
But one rarely associates email and invites from the Hobbit with regular infuriating missives from the masses, and Tingle, obligingly and much against her better judgement, gave in.

suffice to say, five minutes later I regretted it. This making friends online thing has never really been my thing and hi5 seriously jeopardises my thrived upon anonymity factor. Apparently, now my adolescent cousin’s schoolmates want to “be my friend.” To add insult to injury, someone I particularly dislike and would rather not be reminded of is on my *buddy* list. It also, annoyingly sends off invitations on my behalf to all my yahoo contacts urging them to buy into the evil_network.

Tingle was not amused.

Later that evening in the Loki_Tingle homestead:

Tingle: So like what possessed you to send me that hi5 invite anyway? What were you thinking?

Tingle: Indeed. I had been successfully avoiding all the invites thus far. But then I saw one from you and I thought reluctantly, well if she’s advocating it….I mean, you’re not known for promoting spam inducing web_widgets afterall….but nooooOOoooo….it sends me an invite, I am lulled into a sense of security and BAM! it’s all over.

Loki: Same thing happened to me. *Insert name of highly respected individual here* sent me one and I threw caution to the winds.

Both: *collective sigh*

And two days later, sweet revenge:

*Tingle receives email from irate loki*

“Why the f*** is your goddamn cousin trying to get on my hi5 buddy list? I don’t even know him!!”