Nextdoor makes me scared of my neighbors
I commented in a discussion about pets last week on the local Nextdoor. I don't go on there that much, so I'd pretty much forgotten about it. So, this morning, I have two messages from this older white woman, one sent after 11pm last night, and one sent around 7am this morning. I don't know her, but I've seen her posts before. She's one of those self-righteous busybodies constantly policing everyone and posting about every time someone has walked too close to her in public. (Her latest big thing is about people riding too fast on bicycles.) She thought I was rude to her in my comment, and she started writing about how her husband is an attorney (an obvious veiled threat to intimidate) and how I shouldn't be "bullying" women online. It ended with this strange comment about how they'd "like to meet me." WTF? I don't know her, and I certainly don't want to meet her. Since I hadn't responded by 7am, she let loose with a second, more angry one about how I probably hated women, talking about how many friends she had, what a community leader she is, how many comments she got on Nextdoor, etc...
Uh, yeah, lady. I am now backing slowly away.
I thought of replying and pointing out how crazy she sounded, but that's just what people like this want, so I just deleted the conversation and muted her. But, damn, there are some insane people on Nextdoor.