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Let me axe you something.
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3/8/2005
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I got an e-mail from someone with the following scenario and question-
A woman goes to her mother's funeral and meets this dude who she really likes, she's pretty sure he's the one for her and all of that crap, blah blah blah. Unfortunately he leaves before she gets a chance to get his phone number. The following week, she kills her sister.
What was her motive?
While most people I asked said, "Her sister must have been involved with him and she was jealous", my first thought was, "The dude'll probably show up at that funeral too, so she can get his number." Then I laughed for a second at the absurdity/sickness of it.
It turns out that that very question was asked by a psychiatrist to dozens of people back in the day, and only one kind of person gave the answer I did, and with alarming regularity. Psychopaths and serial killers. No, it couldn't have been geniuses or art prodigies. It had to be all of the depraved godless souls in the violent offender wing of the Morningwood Home for the criminally insane who think like I do.
The other weird thing was that it surprised me, but when I tell other people they act like I just told them that water is wet or something. No reaction at all.
Should I be worried or amused by this? Right now I am straddling the line between the two at "amurried".
Speaking of insane, a guy from my office is selling something on e-bay that will blow your mind. He even made up a quote from me, thinking that would help sell it. I told him that an item like that will sell no matter how you advertise it. If there is a better stocking stuffer, I don't want to know about it.
See for yourself.
Last night, my upstairs neighbor (I call them the VonHumpingtons because they enjoy a healthy sex life on my ceiling) came over and asked me how my weekend went. He did so in a rather eyebrow-lifty suggestive way, and alluded to having heard some loud, possibly sex related noises coming from below his floor. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about, but did so in an equally suggestive way (even if you never get laid, it doesn't hurt to have people think you do).
He then asked me if I used any drugs, which I instantly interpreted as whatever he thinks he heard this weekend was so amazing to him and his wife that they guessed I was on performance enhancing sex god drugs. So I'm all, "Nope, no drugs...but I did install gas shocks on the four corners of my bed to protect the foundation...haha" *punch on arm/high five thing that guys do when discussing what superstuds we wish we were*
Actually, his reason for asking me if I used drugs was something entirely different, and it wasn't because he had/wanted some.
What was his motive? If you answer correctly, you are a highly intelligent person, and not at all a psychopath.
 Dusty
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I would be a complete turd if I gave it away. Sonofabitch, doing the right thing is painful.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/sister.htm
While I do not rule out any of us being psychopaths, I also do not believe anything I receive via e-mail.
I have a totally different answer to the sister riddle: the woman's motive was that she was distraught over the loss of her mother and the potential love-of-her-life all at the same time, and her sister happened to get on the wrong side of her fury.
Where's that put me on the psycho-scale? (I'm thinking 'puts too much thought into things' or 'gets too emotionally involved').
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