# There was something different in my letterbox...advice please. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 19, 2004, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636 "2004-11-19T10:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![grayhairedmomma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@grayhairedmomma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grayhairedmomma)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/181 "2004-12-03T15:02:42Z")
Maybe she had The Stranger come over to her house instead of meeting him elsewhere and is too embarrassed to tell us after all the admonitions not to do that? ---
**Author:** ![RitzyRae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@RitzyRae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitzyRae)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/182 "2004-12-03T15:10:24Z")
She is prolly too busy making sweet love and her world no longer includes SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/183 "2004-12-03T19:33:17Z")
It’s been more than a week, I demand to know what happened! 😉 um, er, I meant get well soon **calmkiwi** Hope you’re back on line soon. ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/184 "2004-12-03T20:48:48Z")
I have been lurking in this thread all this time, too. I am glad she is alive, I hope she gets better soon, but I am dying for an update! I had to post so I would get emails about this thread instead of trying to locate it all the time. Which makes me wonder, maybe now she justs wants to see how many pages of replies this thread will get until it is no longer on the front page? It must fast be approaching the most viewed thread of 2004 that isn’t a game thread… ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/185 "2004-12-03T21:30:41Z")
**Thinks2Much** - at the top of the page in a thread, under “post reply” there is a blue bar with **View First Unread, Thread Tools , Search this Thread,** & \*\*Display Modes \*\* If you click **Thread Tools** you can choose to subscribe without having to post. 🙂 If we can’t get an update on all the hot steamy love note’n going on, how about one on the cold? Is she doing any better or has anyone spoken with her? ☹ I’ll send soup! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/186 "2004-12-03T21:32:59Z")
[QUOTE=harmless] **Thinks2Much** - at the top of the page in a thread, under “post reply” there is a blue bar with **View First Unread, Thread Tools , Search this Thread,** & \*\*Display Modes \*\* If you click **Thread Tools** you can choose to subscribe without having to post. 🙂 QUOTE] Doh! :smack: I have only been a member for how long now? Oh well - I know for next time. Thanks!!! ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/187 "2004-12-03T21:44:52Z")
> [@Thinks2Much](#): > > Doh! :smack: I have only been a member for how long now? Oh well - I know for next time. Thanks!!! Pssst! It’s ok…I just found it last month myself. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/188 "2004-12-05T16:45:17Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > Pssst! It’s ok…I just found it last month myself. 😃 Hey, I took the short bus. I just figured it out this year. After 9000+ posts. ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/189 "2004-12-05T16:51:35Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I just figured it out this year. After 9000+ posts. I don’t feel so bad then. (although it still doesn’t excuse my messed up coding…) What was that one thread about less than stellar dopers uniting? 😉 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/190 "2004-12-05T16:58:44Z")
> [@Thinks2Much](#): > > I don’t feel so bad then. (although it still doesn’t excuse my messed up coding…) What was that one thread about less than stellar dopers uniting? 😉 Thanks! There is nothing like a potention DREAM LOVER-POSSIBLE AXE MURDERER-WHERE THE HELL IS SHE?- OH SHE HAS THE FLU-WHY ARE WE WAIIIITNING? story to bring out the best in people. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/191 "2004-12-06T02:32:10Z")
Hi everyone! I don’t have much time! Its me, **calm\_kiwi**. I have been kidnapped by another Doper. Quick, send the police. \*\*Keapon \*\* has me trapped in the basement, but I managed to sneak out and use his PC. Also, thanks for the brownies… oh no! he’s coming back. Quick! Get help… I… ARGHGHH… leggo… oww… hey!.. HEL… ouch! _CRASH_ _BIFF_ _ZOINKS_ You’ll never get away with this! … … … Uhh, hi everyone. Disregard all that please. 🙂 Nothing to see here. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/192 "2004-12-06T02:45:56Z")
> [@Keapon Laffin](#): > > Nothing to see here. Phew! Am I glad to hear that. I mean, it sure looked like there was something to see. That reassuring message that there is, in fact, nothing to see, calms me considerably. Calm as…well…a kiwi! ---
**Author:** ![ridealong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@ridealong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ridealong)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/193 "2004-12-06T03:41:18Z")
I just discovered this thread, and now I’m curious too. Kiwi, what happened? (Actually, I was wondering whether the original note was a friend’s practical joke, but apparently not.) ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/194 "2004-12-06T22:17:03Z")
Currently this thread has 9,943 views. Perhaps **calm kiwi** is waiting for it to hit 10,000. Is that it, **calm kiwi**? Will you come back if we do that for you? ---
**Author:** ![Bin-Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@Bin-Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bin-Gay)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/195 "2004-12-07T21:49:08Z")
MAN!!! I thought SURE Calm Kiwi would have responded by now!!! I haven’t checked in the past few days, so I thought the end (another beginning?) would have developed by now. Calm Kiwi. . . Where are you??? (imagine that with lots of echo) 😃 Note to self: Patience Grasshopper. . .patience ---
**Author:** ![Optihut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@Optihut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optihut)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/196 "2004-12-07T21:54:52Z")
> [@ridealong](#): > > I just discovered this thread, and now I’m curious too. Kiwi, what happened? > (Actually, I was wondering whether the original note was a friend’s practical joke, but apparently not.) Well, I rather think **calm kiwi** is playing a practical joke on us, here 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Of\_Cabbages\_and\_Kings](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/49beb7/32.png) [@Of\_Cabbages\_and\_Kings](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Of_Cabbages_and_Kings)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/197 "2004-12-07T23:04:54Z")
_bump_ I can’t stand the suspense! ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/198 "2004-12-08T12:09:24Z")
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!! I knew I was deeply addicted to the dope but I didn’t know why…now I do. Firstly HUGE HUGE HUGE apologies! I sooooooooo didn’t mean to cause any concern to anyone. I had a letter that was wayyyyyyy outside of my experience and asked for advice. You guys are owed the whole story. He cancelled the Tuesday because of work commitments. That sounded like a line and I thought " hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmpf MEN" till a bunch of flowers was delivered later that day. Yes that was creepy and sweet! On the Thursday it became obvious I was not well (I could share details, but that would be NASTY, let us just say it was full on action from both the front and back end) I hit my bed and the loo with startingly regularity. As female type I have to say I lost about 8 pounds (the ONLY good point). I ralphed and …well put stuff out the other end (even though I wasn’t eating!) continously! While I was still feeling not-so-hunky-dory the child caught up. He has been way less then well for about a week but will be back to school tomorrow YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. I truly apologise for worrying anyone! The stalker turned out to be a guy who worked for the bloke across the road (I suspected as much after the bunch of flowers). He has arrived ON MY DOORSTEP uninvited twice in the last 5 days. I have been more interested in getting the child and I over the puking/shitting period, but he does seem sweet…he offered to do a run to the grocery shop the 2nd time he arrived at the door (and I said nooooooooooo you can’t come in!). Anyway I owe him a movie/dinner for the way he was when the child and I looked soooooooooooooooooo unpretty. I want to say something about the SDMB now. I have been deeply addicted for years but I felt like it was my own private addiction. It was verrrrrrrrrrrrry moving to see that some of you noticed that I was here. I have only just read the rest of his thread tonight. Thanks for that. 🙂 **Malinblack** You a Damn Good Mate. I love you heaps and am just as proud of you a you mum and Meg (his fiance) are. OK the IMPORTANT bit! Though I have felt like warmed up shit lately the “stalker” has visited (my house,though that wasn’t he first visit). He seems like a lovely bloke, possibly not oodles of chemistry…but if someone brings you a bunch of roses while you are making messes out of each end how can you not like them??? (well a bit) ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/199 "2004-12-08T12:12:15Z")
Well it’s about friggin time! Young lady, do you know how WORRIED we w-… \ Welcome back 🙂 Glad you weren’t axe murdered. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636/200 "2004-12-08T12:25:18Z")
SHE IS A-LIVE! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! You do realize this is your most successful thread evar! And if you went with the " I went on a date with an axe murdering sociopath and how I was held hostage for the last X days in his dank, dark dungeon like basement before I knawed off all my limbs to escape and post on the Dope every sordid detail using my nose to type this…" We would have rejoiced in your fortitude. But barfing and the quick-step. Girl, that is just so pedestrian. The fact that this prospective Axe Murderer has shown up twice with flowers and offered to help out…shows bloody promise. Bloody promise! YAY! Isn’t it nice to know that all your imaginary friends from all over the world were _worried_ about you? You have alot of typing to do to make up your lost post count. 🙂 Seriously, glad you are not in a bloody pile somewhere. That would be bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-was-something-different-in-my-letterbox-advice-please/275636.md?page=11)