It’s embarrassing really, but it all started when I dropped my iPhone in the toilet. I was brushing my teeth in the restroom and had my phone playing music on the very edge of the sink. Apparently it was the VERY edge, because one wrong move later and my iPhone plopped right into the toilet.
I know what people say about putting it in rice, but I somehow screwed that up and was totally out of an iPhone. I didn’t have an upgrade, and none of my friends had an extra phone, so I decided to try my luck on Craigslist.
Luckily, I found an incredibly cheap offer online. It was apparently part of an estate sale from some old dude who had passed away.
I drove the forty minutes out of town to pick it up, and pushed a wad of twenties into the sandy-haired vendor before taking my bargain to the Verizon Store to activate.
The phone worked great! My phone before had actually been really old, it was a 5s I bought ages ago. This new one was the original iPhone 6 — still old, but a big step up for me.
I re-added all my apps and things went by perfectly normally. Until I got this request on Snapchat.
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I remember thinking it was kind of weird — which is why I took a screenshot of the request and sent it to my best friend Maxene. It had to be some kind of prank from one of my friends. So I added the account as a friend.
Nothing happened at first. A long time went by. Maybe weeks? I forgot about the bizarre friend request, and went about my life as normal.
A little about me. I’m an avid snapchat user. I love snapchat, I love Instagram, I love Twitter — I’m okay with Facebook even. Social media is fun, and it helps distract me from my college classes at night and my lame ass part time job as a fitness club front desk worker.
I was actually working an overnight shift at the gym when I got my first communication from the weird account:
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I had totally forgotten about the weird account until I got this snapchat message. It was weird, but at this point I was still totally convinced it was one of my friends. I decided to play along.
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I kept taking screenshots in order to text them around to my friends for laughs. I stayed awake in bed for hours, scrolling through my Facebook feed to see if I could figure out who had been recently awake and might be trying to fuck with me.
I eventually gave up, tossed my phone on my bedside table, and called it a night.
