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More Ways to be Passive Aggressive

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Great. Just what the people of my generation need. Not only can we be passively involved in each other’s lives via social networking and completely avoid direct communication by being able to send people to voicemail (is there anything more infuriating) and text messaging, now we can avoid telling people if we’ve possibly given them an STD with a new site called InSpot, a site that allows you to send someone an anonymous message telling them that you caught a little something and that they should go go get tested. They even link the person to local resources. So Yeah. You can tell someone you may have given them herpes. Or chlamdyia. Or gonorrhea. Or whatever. By an e-card. Extremely adult, right?

This site is of particular interest to me since the last communication I had with Married Dude (ie, the last person I swapped any kind of bodily fluids with. Is that TMI? Sorry.) was an email he sent to me from a dummy account fa-reaking the fuck out about me, dirty diseased wanton seductress that I am, potentially giving him HIV (I did not give him HIV since one would have to actually have HIV to be able to give it to someone else. I may have ruined Christmas, but I didn’t give him HIV).

In other words, I Done Fucked Up and now I can barely look my wife in the face, aka Guilt Fest 2K7. I understood his genuine concern about STDs, but I felt that having to include me in it was just his guilt talking and wanting to find someone to blame. As in, he could have just gotten tested for STDs and then freaked out if anything came back positive, and then you know, blame me. Perhaps by using inspot to let me know?

So anyway, now this site exists and you can tell people that you have tested positive for STD via e-card and completely avoid any unpleasant conversation, which appears to be what everyone I know consistently aspires to.

I think this may replace someecards as my new e-card directory of choice. Guess what, friends!? Check your inboxes - you all have STDs now!

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I mean, I definitely aspire to eliminate audible communication from my life entirely. But you are the queen of straight to voicemail, okay?

i would like to let you know that i have never sent you to voicemail!!!

but yes, i include myself in this.

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