What We've Got Heah, is Failure to Communicate

 Ever see that guy that guy on those Facebook REELS that offers quick tip how-to's about fixin' stuff, usually with WD-40? He sounds like he's from Tennnesse and when he's done with the fix, he tosses whatever he was using to fix whatever over his shoulder and calls out "NEEEXXTTT". That guy. 

It took me a while, but I started to warm to him. I even thought of following him. I even read the comments on one clip. You should never read the comments. 

I was fairly impressed that he interacted with folks in the comments. Maybe not always, but on this one he did. Evidently some evil doers were hijacking his clips and offering them up as their own, for fun and profit. I would hate it if someone would hijack these posts of mine and started buying yachts and mansions by impersonating a Ferrerman! I don't make a nickel off of this. I do it for the love of the game. I'm not, as Ralph Cifaretto would say: "A whuuure". I'm more of a wordslut in that I give it away. Love of the game.

This guy and other commenters were going on about his imitators and he was assuring people that HE was the real deal. So, I posted: "Or so the dang gubmint would have you believe..."

He took that serious. He even kinda chastised me, called me "bro" and told me to look at his page He's the real deal, bro. 

I had really thought that "dang gubmint" kinda highlighted my post as silly and non-provocative. I lived in the south for 15 years. I walked amongst them. I know the lingo. I thought my folksiness would be a tip off. 

Oh well, I had thought of following, but I don't think so now. I dunno. Maybe he's Canadian and that's how they talk in Winnepeg but they don't get "dang gubmint" up there. I read him wrong, or he read me wrong. That does happen from time to time. No harm, no foul, no follow.

NEEEXXTT! 

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