our anonymous submitter has held on to this email for more than five years now, but she still has no idea what she did to offend the sender. she barely knew him at the time, she says, “and needless to say, i don’t know him any better now, except i have a better handle on his mental state.”
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#1 Marcelo
This will offend some people, but I find it amazing how most religious(bordering fanaticism) people I know are completely arrogant and have no respect to people that don’t go to the same church as they do. Also amazing how they choose which parts of the teachings they want to follow and ignore all the rest.
Team anonymous submitter.
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:07 pm rating: +3
#2 Kat
LOL. Mailer DEMON!!!
If I hadn’t read the blurb before the note, I would never have guessed that a guy had written this.
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:07 pm rating: 0
#3 Dave9
Agree with Marcelo.
Gotta love the imacinations of some folk.
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:22 pm rating: 0
#4 skye
He says “if you would like to remain friends”
Sorry bubba, you weren’t her friend in the first place. The writer reminds me of several members of my extended family. I stay far far away from them. Marcelo made a great point about the fanatics only following the rules they want to follow. Guess they missed “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” “Judge not, lest ye be judged” and “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” and of course “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us”
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:26 pm rating: 0
#5 eh
team mailer hell daemon
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:28 pm rating: 0
#6 Anna-banana
Who really cares about some innocuous religious implication.
What’s really cool is that the writer uses all different points, fonts, and even underlines to differentiate each thought.
THAT’S what is really bizarre!!!
Go Team “You”
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:30 pm rating: 0
#7 Wry Exchange
I could tell he was crazy before reading the words. A different font for each paragraph, some with underlines, different sizes, bolds, and in italics. He only missed a big yellow un-smiley face. Putz.
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:38 pm rating: 0
#8 stephanie
wow that guy is bat shit crazy
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:40 pm rating: 0
#9 GVI
Someone needs a hug from Jesus.
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:48 pm rating: +1
#10 jess
wtf??
here’s what i love most about this email. the different font sizes. the creative use of italics, bold font and underlining.
and, hey dude..it’s mailer DAEMON…just thought you’d like to know…
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:55 pm rating: 0
#11 T-Bone
This note reminds me of the stalker I had when I lived in L.A. Good times!
Stephanie, you’re right– that guy is most certainly bat shit crazy.
Sep 5, 2007 at 11:23 pm rating: 0
#12 Mr DeBakey
Holy Fuck!
Nothing Passive There
Sep 5, 2007 at 11:26 pm rating: 0
#13 Zsa
Ye gads~ this could have been written by my mother.
I dont want to be mad at you so after you think about what you might have done to to make me mad (but I’m not mad now) you can talk to me about it and apologize.
The logic makes my head hurt. I’d say Bat Shit crazy, but what exactly is so crazy about bat shit?
Sep 5, 2007 at 11:43 pm rating: 0
#14 Katy
I love how some people always use the “if you wanna continue being my friend” line. Look at what an asshole this letter-writer is! Who the hell would WANT to be this guy’s friend?
Craaazzyyyy!!
Sep 5, 2007 at 11:44 pm rating: 0
#15 Anna-banana
I don’t want to be his friend.
Wait a minute…what if he already IS my friend and I just don’t know it….?
Hmmm……?
Sep 5, 2007 at 11:46 pm rating: 0
#16 Zsa
Whoo~ I just checked out the email address– GO Oregon State! I told you Oregon was hell- we have Mailer Deamons!
Sep 5, 2007 at 11:47 pm rating: 0
#17 Andy
Wow. Crazy, patronizing, hypocritical, crazy.
See, that’s great. Go to church, learn about tolerance and the Golden Rule, then ignore someone’s existance.
The writer didn’t even apologize about being crazy pissed for two Sundays because of a stupid MAILER-DAEMON error.
That’s why I’ll never tell my kids that college is a great place to meet new people. I’ll probably say that it’s perfect place to prepare for work, since you have to put up with crazy douchebags all of the time. The only difference is that at work you get paid.
Bleah.
Sep 5, 2007 at 11:51 pm rating: 0
#18 Team Cassandra
That guy goes to CHURCH!?!
I bet Sundays are CHOCK FULL of righteous indignation for that guy! yeesh!
And not even a hint??? If he already doesn’t get the “inner imacinations” of the posters mind then how does he figure she’ll “guess” what she did wrong.
I guess if she kept the note for five years she must be pretty curious, but obviously smart enough to know who she wants for a friend.
Good on you, girlie!
Sep 6, 2007 at 12:07 am rating: 0
#19 agirlie
I bet she had a beer and it pissed him off. Or danced or bought a lotto ticket. Those things are no-nos with my denomination…still I wonder what she did to make him go bitchcakes like that?
Sep 6, 2007 at 12:16 am rating: 0
#20 Amanda
lol @ at the commenters who think anyone going to church has anything to do with this letter.
“by church on Sunday” is a benchmark for time. If he doesn’t hear back from her by then, goodbye. Not, “if I don’t see you sitting in church on Sunday you’re dead to me.”
Sep 6, 2007 at 12:27 am rating: 0
#21 GVI
Well assumption is what we do best here Amanda, the same way you ASSUME[bold,underline,italic] that he used church as a benchmark for time.
Hey guess doesn’t his crazy writing remind you of Terry, or is it just me??
Sep 6, 2007 at 12:44 am rating: 0
#22 Angela Merkel
Speaking of Terry, I always saw Terry as Anthony Grosso’s nickname… don’t know if anyone else picked up on that, but I didn’t really want to read through 150 comments to find out…
Sep 6, 2007 at 12:54 am rating: 0
#23 BoggyWoggy
My mom was pretty mad at me lately…and her e-mail to me said, “You’re heading down a road that may lead you to a time when no one will even want to ride with you in a limo on the way to a funeral.” OK, it’s pretty clear she’s messed up, but this guy’s letter makes me feel like movin’ in with my mom. She’s NOTHING compared to him!
Sep 6, 2007 at 12:57 am rating: 0
#24 Tiffany
I’m no psychologist, but I’m pretty sure this person is crazy.
Sep 6, 2007 at 1:03 am rating: 0
#25 Potbelly
It always amazing how people always try to bet all these crazy notes MUST come from women, but then they’re usually revealed to be from dudes. It’s like women have this rep for being whiny PA nutcases, but this site is debunking that myth. Just another reason to love it!
Oh and this note is a contrarian delight. The guy is clearly deeply in love.
Sep 6, 2007 at 1:10 am rating: 0
#26 Zoob
It sounds strikingly like someone I know who just flies off the handle. Couldn’t be though, because the emails were OSU. The asshole I know didn’t go there.
Sep 6, 2007 at 1:32 am rating: 0
#27 eh
i need a hug from jesus
Sep 6, 2007 at 2:04 am rating: 0
#28 team terry
Okay…this guy seems like someone who will more than likely kill his wife when she asks to divorce his crazy ass all because he flipped out over some imaginary thing he thinks she did. Men like this make me scared for our daughters and sisters!!!
Ooh, this just in…can you imagine the letters we could devour if Rene Hall and this guy were roommates…Muahahahahahahaaaaa (insert evil grin here)
Sep 6, 2007 at 2:35 am rating: 0
#29 Nanna
If this note was handwritten, it would for sure have creepy serial killer handwriting. How the hell can you be angry at someone but not be angry, and that all in the same sentence.
Obviously Insane.
Sep 6, 2007 at 3:21 am rating: 0
#30 brie
I agree with Potbelly - the guy obviously had a crush on her. She probably looked at someone else and he lost his shit.
Where exactly are the ‘inner imacinations of [one's] mind’? Sounds need.
Team sender for keeping it all these years.
Sep 6, 2007 at 4:50 am rating: 0
#31 vib
This is just a hilarious mixture of technical ignorance and total crazyness. I love the part “i will continue to ignore your existence most likely till i die”.
Sep 6, 2007 at 5:00 am rating: 0
#32 Goopie
The osu.edu domain is Ohio State, not Oregon State. Think “crazy Midwestern bible boy” — not “deranged Wild West Mountain hick.”
Sep 6, 2007 at 6:12 am rating: 0
#33 ginger
after i finished thinking i doubt i’d be using church language. this confirms why i always feel uneasy around very churchy people.
Sep 6, 2007 at 6:21 am rating: 0
#34 claw71
I’m not kidding either.
That’s rich but the only reason a person would feel inclined to include such a disclaimer is if that person has a history of never living up to their threats.
The next message will include the statement: I really, really mean it this time.
Sep 6, 2007 at 7:14 am rating: 0
#35 claw71
You’re killing Anthony Grosso with your second hand self-righteousness. And you haven’t tithed in six months.
Sep 6, 2007 at 7:22 am rating: 0
#36 Andy
Amanda: You’re saying that “by church time” is a common benchmark for time?
Maybe if you’re Amish and watches are for heathens.
Team Get A Fucking Watch So You Can Say, “If I don’t get a response by 9 AM Sunday”, Asshat.
Dang, I shouldn’t get this worked up in the morning. Ah well.
Sep 6, 2007 at 7:28 am rating: 0
#37 Mrs L Carrot
A four star nut bar for sure but it does sound like the kind of attention seeking behaviour of a psycho in love…
You’re well out of it sister!
Cheers
LC
Sep 6, 2007 at 7:32 am rating: 0
#38 Garden Greenfinch
Yikes- PSYCHO!
If I were her, I’d move, change my name and have extensive plastic surgery.
Sep 6, 2007 at 8:17 am rating: 0
#39 claw71
Amanda, you’re an idiot. Of course he meant church as a religious service. I’ve traveled all around the country and I have never heard somebody use church as a benchmark for time. And don’t even try to say it’s an Ohio thing. I live in Columbus. We actually use clocks.
The author of this e-mail is one of those holier-than-thou bible thumpers who is probably pissed at this woman because she strayed from the path and blasphemed while they were out. I work with a yahoo who runs and tells on anybody who lets a minor curse word fly.
Sep 6, 2007 at 8:23 am rating: 0
#40 anon
imagination+machinations=imacinations
Sep 6, 2007 at 8:42 am rating: 0
#41 Anna-banana
Maybe I’ve seen too many Westerns, but something rings a bell in my mind about Amanda’s ‘by church on Sunday’ time limit. I didn’t pick up on it until she said something.
But, didn’t they say something to that effect? Not just ‘by noon’ someday, somewhere? And then they battled it out & settled the score in a duel.
Or am I just nuts, like Amanda?
Sep 6, 2007 at 8:55 am rating: 0
#42 Fraulein N
If this weren’t typed (in about 4 different fonts and such), I don’t think it would be handwritten. This has “ransom note cut & paste letters” all over it. Don’t kidnappers usually “hope to hear from you” too?
I really want to know what his “behavior for the last two sundays” was. I mean, besides going to church and being completely batshit.
Sep 6, 2007 at 8:55 am rating: 0
#43 Rfunk
Best part? He’s not kidding either.
Awesome.
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:00 am rating: 0
#44 claw71
Here’s a shorter and possibly more mature version of this note I found at the local playgorund scrawled in crayon:
“You made me very mad. Now I won’t be your friend. If you’re sorry you need to tell me before Thundar comes on this Saturday or I will never talk to you again. Maybe.”
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:01 am rating: 0
#45 claw71
Team Mailer Demon:
Dark Lord of the Inbox.
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:03 am rating: 0
#46 ShagNBag
I would really LOVE to know what it was that offended. Oh and what a loss to history that the (chuckle) DAEMON destroyed the original letter!
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:16 am rating: 0
#47 Jacinda
I’m seriously afraid for the chick that got this from the guy. In all actuality, this is how stalkers start. They assume power over others and make them aware of what the stalker thinks they did is wrong, and how they have to make up for it “or else”.
In my own opinion, what a fuckin’ psycho!
I love how he tells her she needs to think it over, and then get in contact with HIM.
Yeah, most people love mulling over their supposed “wrongs” to come crawling back to someone that didn’t even realize was PISSED.
People like Email Crazy here make me want to punch someone in the face.
Team ANTI-STALKER
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:22 am rating: 0
#48 The Fresh Cracker
Wow. Just… wow.
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:44 am rating: 0
#49 Max Roswell
Of course the guy’s a religious wacko. I think we all know about METHODISTS and their CRAZY FONTS.
Yeah, you heard me.
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:47 am rating: 0
#50 lauralaiwc
yeah, this is why people think anyone who has faith is a psycho nut ball, which really ruins it for those of us who are not.
but, in the defense of religious individuals who DON’T write crazy stalker notes, its like if we do one minor thing wrong, we get labeled as an ignorant bible-thumping nut, when in reality, we are just people too and we make normal people mistakes. ahh, ignorance of all. for both the crazy religious types and for the ones who look for little mistakes to pick on. find a PRODUCTIVE hobby.
on this note, it sounds like someone puts a little bit more value on their own self-worth than is really merrited. why anyone would want to continue to be a pal with someone like this, after a letter like this, is beyond me.
run, girl, run!!!!!!!!!!
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:50 am rating: 0
#51 Black Bellamy
It really drives me nuts that some people pronounce it DAH-EH-MON.
And yet Caesar comes out Ceasar, not Ca-eysar.
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:56 am rating: 0
#52 Anonymous
that made me laugh, I wonder if this may have been sent to the wrong email address (like the letter) >.> wouldnt surprise me; the deamons probably got to him.
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:02 am rating: 0
#53 Ben
Completely nuts. Oh, the perils of linguistically overreaching one’s self. To take a guess at the “inner imacinations” of the sender’s mind, he must have heard a really cool turn of phrase (inner machinations maybe?) and tried to employ it to add some moral and intellectual superiority– and came out looking like an illiterate fool.
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:19 am rating: 0
#54 the sos
This guy can stick this letter where it belongs - not that he cares not to know where that is - and I really mean it. If he doesn’t, I will probably continue ignoring his existence “till” the day I die. He should think about why I feel this way…
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:21 am rating: 0
#55 jm
If Mr Crazy fonts really had any desire to work it out he would have called. Yet another cas of one bad apple spoiling the whole “church” bunch.
I can’t believe she even kept the email. I would have burned on the church lawn (or maybe his car)
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:23 am rating: 0
#56 Lori
The inner imacinations of your mind? Pychedelic!
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:27 am rating: 0
#57 teamster
Team hugs from Jesus!
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:34 am rating: 0
#58 GhostWriter
I am willing to bet that no MAILER DAEMON ever destroyed an alleged “original” note. This whole thing had been stewing in his lunatic bean for over two weeks, and he started to realize that it’s way too long a time to remain angry at her, simply because she ate her seasoned curly fries without first saying Grace.
So he concocted the alleged “first note” story, insisted that he is “no longer angry” but all the while was planning to make a lampshade out of her skin unless she confessed and atoned by church on Sunday.
Man, I hope she did the right thing…
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:38 am rating: 0
#59 Marissa
I wonder if he drenched his computer in holy water after the Mailer Daemon ate his letter. What a nutjob.
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:40 am rating: 0
#60 Katzndogz
He’s either lying or leaving something out. First he says that his e-mail *promptly* returned to him by mailer daemon. Then he says that he assumed she got it and never responded - thus explaining his behavior for two weeks.
The mailer daemon wouldn’t have waited two weeks to send the error message.
This guy is about a dozen bricks short of a load.
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:45 am rating: 0
#61 e
Whoa.
I can see keeping the email for the fact that I would read it over and over again hoping I would find the joke somewhere.
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:46 am rating: 0
#62 Mel
The problem with the stalker types when they say they’ll never talk to you again is that they never mean it and they keep calling. Since this is several years ago (she said she held on to the note for a while), I’m assuming she’s successfully managed to dodge this dodgy fellow.
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:48 am rating: 0
#63 Becki
Wow. So many ways to go with this one. I wouldn’t be so quick to label him a “religious nut”. Going to church doesn’t make one a Christian any more than being in a garage makes you a car. Maybe church is just where he goes to pick up chicks? Not doing very well, obviously. If I were the sender, I wouldn’t be able to keep my mouth shut. I would just HAVE to know what my great sin is before I could let it go. Then I would probably be so sweet and contrite that he would look like an even bigger idiot (if that’s at all possible). Is he still ignoring her or is he dead?
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:48 am rating: 0
#64 Katzndogz
Also, I think that the “church on Sunday” thing is definitely talking about seeing her at church and not a colloquial way of defining a period of time. He mentions previous Sundays in his e-mail, so it seems pretty clear that these people know each other through church.
I’d further hypothesize that it’s probably a church frequented by a lot of college students who come from different backgrounds and have varying levels of adherence to the bible. Anonymous might have been drinking a beer and laughing about the latest episode of South Park - stuff that was okay in her church back home, but was considered blasphemous to this dude. She’d never know what got him bent out of shape because their beliefs are so different.
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:55 am rating: 0
#65 Spreggels
This one seems pretty cut and dried: the note writer is a nutbar. I wish we had a bit more context, though — there had to be _some_ kind of perceived slight for him to go off on such an unhinged diatribe, right?
Actually, maybe he’s just crazy.
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:57 am rating: 0
#66 Mishee
wow, I am not sure what to say about this note… although I am pretty sure OSU is Oregon State University. That’s what they call it there, so I guess this note once again goes to show that Oregon is not only a crazy place, but it makes people who live there crazy too…
I think it has something to do with the weather patterns… I swear it is on crack or something…
Sep 6, 2007 at 10:59 am rating: 0
#67 Mishee
ummm, yeah, I just went to the handy dandy http://www.m-w.com and I hate to say it but “imachinations” is NOT a word! Just thought I would let everyone know that, so they can all start picking on that one too…