Good Luck / episode 4
My friend died laughing on the telephone. He laughed so hard his heart stopped.
It doesn’t sound real. It sounds like something a person puts in a short story and it bothers the reader because it’s so unbelievable. But this was real life. My friend died laughing on the telephone.
It was late in the evening. He was clicking around the internet. A lot of his friends lived in his computer. He was always saying hello.
A direct message came in to his Facebook from a person saying they were the dean of Harvard. Harvard needed money. Help Harvard. Go over to the Western Union right away and wire money to help save Harvard.
And every other word was misspelt. And the person pretending to be the dean of Harvard had no grasp of grammar. So my friend started playing around with the scammer and the messages from the scammer got threatening, and god, could anything be funnier?
He picked up the phone and called his girlfriend, and as he relayed in real time what was happening with the scam he laughed and laughed and laughed, it was all too much to take. While he was on the phone with her he died. She thought the call was disconnected, she said, “Hello?” She said, “Hello?”
And he didn’t say hello back anymore.
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