Re: Reading other people's mail.


I can finally get this one off my chest.


A former girlfriend of mine was several years older than me. I knew she'd been in a long-term relationship in another country prior to us getting together.

Several times she had to go off on week-long seminars or training courses so I'd pop round to hers and feed the cat & change its litter.

Anyways, as is always the way, I got curious as to her former life - about which she was very reticent to say anything. So, I decided to go through her correspondence to see what I could discover.

Bloody hell.

I found letters from some nutter who'd been stalking her* (this was the late '80's when stalking hadn't even been invented) not only did she not report the loon, she fucking moved in with him! I was a bit taken aback by this but carried on in an "In for a penny, in for a pound" manner.

I discovered that, in her previous job, she'd been severely reprimanded over some very improper conduct and barely kept her job. The details were vague but she worked for an insurance group and I *think* she either facilitated a fraud committed by the Stalker Nutter or else turned a blind eye/destroyed evidence that he or his mates were up to no good.**

Of course, I couldn't let on that I knew any of this so would have to bite my tongue and not ask any of the umpteen questions I'd have loved to put to her. Not that the relationship went very far anyway as I was constantly coming second best to a dead man. You see, I also found a folder full of pictures of this bloke, rather dashing type with a devil-may-care manner. Turns out that they were in college together where she'd always carried a torch for him. The camera doesn't lie as could be seen from the adoring gaze she had when looking at him in the photos. Unfortunately, he drowned in a swimming accident (there was a newspaper clipping to this effect). If any more proof were needed, there was a small photo of the pair of them in an antique silver frame which was wrapped in tissue paper and kept in a little wooden cigar box.



* He'd seen her on the street, followed her home and to her workplace, arranged an interview with her at work and then charmed his way into her life. This was all laid out in a 'confession' letter he'd sent her.

** A colleague of hers once told me that Stalker Nutter had followed her here and turned up at her workplace. He wanted her assurance about something or other and was most concerned that she stayed away from her former employers at the insurance company and had nothing more to do with them. Her colleague said that she was very shaken after the conversation and very jumpy for several weeks afterwards saying that if Stalker Nutter showed up again tell him I'm out.
(Fanta Menace Is tall enough to see over the fence, Mon 3 Sep 2007, 11:48, Reply)