Means comment this does what?
A while back I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post about an AARP card I received in the mail. Then the other day I got a really unusual comment on the post. Most of the time when a comment comes in on an old article it’s spam, but this time I wasn’t so sure. In fact, I didn’t know what to think. I deleted it anyway, but it was so puzzling my thoughts kept returning to it. I came across it in my deleted comments folder today and found it even more confusing than the first time I read it. Here it is, minus the IP addresses and such:
From a guy calling himself William Sumrall:
“it my card from aarp it yes it but lost I rember uh I need know the hotel it trvel it my name it of the H.C. for I am deaf .
thankyou for called giveing your leave a massge it . william s”
OK, let’s assume for a second that the post is legit. Sloppy grammar and typos are one thing. This looks like it may be from a parallel universe. I can’t for the life of me figure out what the poster is trying to say… Does he think that the picture is of his long-lost AARP card? He wants to come to my hotel and get it? He thinks I called and left a message? He wants to come over for a massage? What is an H.C. and what does it have to do with being deaf?
So many questions, and frankly I’m not entirely sure that I want to know the answers. Still, I’m intrigued by the sheer inscrutability of it all. A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma… So let’s hear it, what do you think William was trying to say? Post a comment and clue me in!
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