Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

I am glad I remembered to post this story. Rob and I overheard this while my site was down and I said, "I have to remember to post this."

In any case, we were at the Wendy's in Copley Square having lunch. At the table next to us, were a young girl and a slightly older guy. Maybe she was 20 and he was 28 or so.

She was bemoaning the fact that some other guy stole her cell phone. Apparently, he's been harassing her with it by calling her at home and telling her he has her phone. He also seemingly told her she could have it back if she slept with him.

Apparently, her response to this is to cry to this other guy, "What other choice do I have? He won't give it back. I can't call the police because it will just be his word against mine. It will be word of mouth."

There are so many problems with this I don't even know where to begin. The biggest, obviously, being that she hasn't called her cell phone provider yet and told them to turn off the phone. The second being that she is actually considering sleeping with this guy to get her phone back. Next, I would like to point out that maybe she could set up an incredibly ingenius sting where she agrees to meet him to swap sex for phone only really she's waiting with a police officer so they can arrest him for theft and stalking. Lastly, she doesn't know how to use the phrase "word of mouth".

Her older and probably also creepy male friend then began to lecture her about how this kind of thing was bound to happen to her because she was a young pretty girl, and that it might even happen frequently, and she had to call the cops, or else he offered to kick the guy's ass.

Apparently this is average intelligence at work everybody. Of course, calling her provider and turning the phone off would mean that he could no longer use it to call and harass her, and that she could get a new phone without sleeping with him.

Isn't this story ridiculous? Can you believe these people exist?

Here's a fun quiz. I knew number 8 because of an Indigo Girls song! Oh, Smith.

I got an 80%.

Apparently, everyone in China spits in public. It's such a problem that the Chinese government is trying to "teach people" to stop doing it before the Olympics. Games organizers have also told China that people there need to "learn to stand in line". Now I don't know why that's coming up - nobody anywhere I've been in Europe knows how to do it either.