Chatrooms are for weirdos
Lots of people think that the people who spend a large part of their lives in internet chatrooms are weirdos, right? Renee sent me this tale about a bottle of vodka, a chatroom and a new houseguest....
--------"I once lived with my bestfriend and her mum in Perth, Australia. Everything was fine until I noticed my friends mum would come home after work everyday grab a bottle of vodka and sit at the computer talking in chatrooms for hours on end. Then one day I found out that my friends mum had found a guy on the net and he was coming from Victoria, Australia to live with her. The man arrived and he was nice enough a bit wierd but ok.....until he used to sit around all day while my friends mum went to work. He refused to clean or cook and made me and my friend do it. Then when my friends mum came home they would both grab a bottle of vodka and sit on the net and chat to people together! Not only that but when they talked to people on the net sometimes it would be my friends mum talking dirty to other men while her new "boyfriend" watched! Needless to say I moved back home two days later."
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I'm pretty liberal with my attitudes to lots of things in life - live and let live and all that. But where do you draw the line before things cross over into weird territory? Have you ever roomed with someone who lived on the internet? What were they like to share a house with? Let me know!
