It is not a good idea to be young and stupid. It is an even worse idea to be young, stupid, and arrogant. And if you happen to be young, stupid, and arrogant, it is best to stay far, far away from email when breaking up with your girlfriend.
This is from an email that has been circulating in D.C. for the last week or so, which I received from a friend this afternoon. The story has hit both The Washington Post and Roll Call, which both report that it is legitimate. Snopes is also onboard. A couple searches don’t show it on the SDMB yet, and this is just too juicy a flame not to offer to the Pitizens.
As the story goes, this is an email from one intern in Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s office to another intern in the same office. It seems that all is not well with our young lovers. The entire message follows:
Yep. I saw that last week on Snopes. I would have assumed that an aspiring corrupt politician (:)) would, you know, make a better effort to write well. I would have assumed incorrectly.
The whole thing smacks me as something that someone would have written in middle school; but then again, some people have never quite gotten over middle school.
Well, as of this afternoon, I was planning on spending my afternoon working, but you have ruined that with your post about two seriously fucked up people. For that, I will be emailing all of my Doper friends and have you blackballed from the SDMB as well as every prestigous law school in the country, but then (lucky for you) I decided not to do that because it made me laugh and I will just let your life self destruct right before my eyes…
And don’t get me started about that huge crush you have on me…
This may be stupid and immature behavior from Mr. Tripplehorn, but it’s pretty inappropriate to have this in Roll Call or the Post. While I have no pity for Mr. Tripplehorn, it must be really embarrassing for Michele or Melissa Mahaffey to be named like this in a private e-mail that is now being broadcast everywhere.
Other than showing that the kid is an insufferable, self-absorbed jerk and reflecting badly on Senator Hutchinson’s selection of low level office help, I don’t understand why Minty’s post was (1) amusing or (2) rage provoking. I found it merely (3) annoying. What am I missing here?
Roll Call’s take on the story was pretty hilarious, too. The top headline on their webpage said something closely akin to, “forget all the legislative hijinks, the talk of the town this week is a serious relationship meltdown in a Senator’s office!”
Roll Call doesn’t get the chance to go tabloid very often, so they seem to have gone after that story with relish.
The “[redacted]” domains were my edits, wring. Those are indeed their actual email names, if the message at the end of the miles-long forwarding list I got today is accurate.
Spavined Gelding, there’s no accounting for taste, but that message struck me as so ridiculously, insufferably self-absorbed that I couldn’t stop laughing.
Neurotik, it appears that the girl herself forwarded the message to her friends. I would have too–it’s practically got “Can you believe this psycho?” written all over it.
Gelding, what struck me as funny was the contrast of an arrogant prick writing, “I was planning on ruining your career . . .” and “I will just let your life self destruct right before my eyes,” then possibly ruining his own career by self-destructing.
That’s just me, anyway. I know, I admit it, I’m sick.
well, that and w/all of his arrogance about how she was so like, totally, not worth his time and stuff, he went on and on and on and on, (complete w/misspellings and poor grammar and sentence structure that would probably make his 3rd grade teacher cry)
Yes, the writing is horrid. Discusting, one might say.
But why did this cause him to lose his job? Judging by the e-mail addresses, it appears that tripplehorny sent this from his personal e-mail account to cheezygrl at her person e-mail account. Yes, it proves that he is a jackass, but why fire him? He mentions what he could have done, but then says he won’t do it. Was he fired because of that “threat?” If I send someone a nasty e-mail from my home AOL account to theirs, can I be fired?
