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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Confucius - You're Wise If You Give in When You're Wrong
Monday, July 11, 2022
A Woman (Girl) Did This - Always The Ones You Least Expect
If you read this, or listened to it in the audiobook, would you guess it was a woman (19 year old)?
They smashed a hole through a locked closet door, and found the passport, cash, credit card and grandmother's jewelry I had hidden inside. They took my camera, my iPod, an old laptop, and my external backup drive filled with photos, journals... my entire life. They found my birth certificate and social security card, which I believe they photocopied - using the printer/copier I kindly left out for my guests’ use. They rifled through all my drawers, wore my shoes and clothes, and left my clothing crumpled up in a pile of wet, mildewing towels on the closet floor. They found my coupons for Bed Bath & Beyond and used the discount, along with my Mastercard, to shop online. Despite the heat wave, they used my fireplace and multiple Duraflame logs to reduce mounds of stuff (my stuff??) to ash – including, I believe, the missing set of guest sheets I left carefully folded for their comfort. Yet they were stupid and careless enough to leave the flue closed; dirty gray ash now covered every surface inside.
https://vator.tv/news/2011-07-29-airbnb-customer-service-fail-the-story-of-ej
EJ is Emily. And the perpetrator? Faith Clifton, who was doing meth, I believe..