Don’t Fear the Reaper
A few years back, there was a spate of celebrity deaths, and I noticed that a particular friend of mine seemed to make a point of emailing me to inform me of each death. This struck me as a bit odd – she is not really a celebrity watcher…As this practice continued, she came to be known (by me) as “the Grim Reaper”.
As the years have passed, she has seemed to delight in being the first to report the latest celebrity casualties. Yesterday, however, she went too far. I awoke the morning of June 25th to find an email from her telling me that Farrah Fawcett had died. I pulled up yahoo! and found it odd that this would not be their lead story. I quickly investigated, and found that, although my friend had posted her message to me at 1:30 am, Farrah had only just received last rites at 6:30 am. I had her dead to rights (so to speak) and fired off an email with the proof, accused her of wanting to get a jump on things, and redubbed her “the Ghoul”. It turns out that the Grim Reaper (aka the Ghoul) has a massively competitive streak that compels her to be the first to break this sort of news. And as her friend, I am (semi) outing her here (no names – this time) to help her overcome her morbid mania and mend her ghoulish ways.
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