Pathetic vs. Dangerous

[Note: the following was first published on Cent here]

The world is a funny place. And it's full of funny people, not to mention people who are boring, important, inconsequential or pathetic.

There is another type of person too: the dangerous type.

The dangerous type is never quite as obvious as you'd expect, so you have to be extra vigilant in order to protect yourself.

Sometimes dangerous types are funny, or so they seem at first. Other times they may seem boring or inconsequential.

But often, or at least it seems like that to me, dangerous types first appear to be simply, utterly, pathetic.

You know the types. They get *super excited*. They @ all the famous people in the world. Then they @ you 40 times, in ten minutes, over two or three platforms.

Hmmm🤔

Private DMs flood in. It seems like they need help, but they don't let you help them. At all. And then they start to criticize you for not helping them.

All of a sudden you see they're trying to shame you on a public messenger channel.

The next thing you know you're put on blast for supposedly doing a poor job. But your DMs are blowing up simultaneously with them asking for help (again) as well as money. And then they start DM'ing co-workers, investors, your boss.

You'd thought they were pathetic, the zero likes and all that, but now you see they're dangerous. They're trying to get you fired.

And there is very little you can do other than continue *trying* to respond to them while keeping your cool; and praying their craziness latches on to someone else with the quickness. Hoping beyond hope that an encounter with a dangerous type doesn't happen to you again anytime soon. Sigh. At least it's Friday😅