Back in March, there was a guy on the local Facebook page that I go to sometimes to talk to people in the town and see what’s going on. One day, a guy posted a picture from his computer. It was a meme he had saved making fun of a local politician. It wasn't a good one or anything, but it wasn't malicious either. Kind of middle of the road boomer humor. Anyway, I'm assuming he's on the older side because rather than post the picture from the folder it was saved in, he took a screenshot of it opened in his camera roll and posted that. Me being me, I got nosy and wanted to see if he was gonna keep posting stupid memes. So I looked at the bottom of the screenshot which had a bunch of other pictures from his camera roll. I found one which was a full body shot of a woman roughly his age who was completely naked. I assumed it was his wife and felt bad that she had been exposed in such a way, so I messaged the guy to let him know that he had inadvertently posted that image and I wanted him to be aware in case I was right and it was his wife. He responded that I had the wrong person, which I clearly didn't as I clicked his name and hit "message" to send it, but I apologized for bothering him and left it at that. I figured that would be the end of it, but in April, he messaged me a link. I don't remember what it was, but I don't open links from strangers online, since I've had my identity stolen once and don't need that headache again. So I ignored the message and moved on thinking it was a mistake and this time will definitely be the end of it. Flash forward to today, he massages me again. I just opened it and it's a gif. Of a woman. From behind. Elbow deep in her own asshole. That's not an exaggeration. Elbow. Deep. I'm still trying to process how someone can bend like that, let alone expand their asshole wide enough to accommodate a full hand and forearm, but beyond that, I don't inderstand why. Is this some kind of message? Is he telling me to go fuck myself? Did he intend to send that to someone else? If so, who? And why? How did she not tickle her own lungs? Are lungs ticklish? This opened my mind to questions I wish I didn’t have the mind to even ask. I feel that this is a burden I will carry for some time, at the very least til the weekend. I guess what I’m trying to say in all this is never try to help strangers, and thank you for coming to my TED talk.









