Oh man, I was out of town and had an email from a psycho high school buddy of mine waiting for me on my work email when I returned. I haven't talked to this cat in 15 years, when it had probably been five+ years (end of high school/early college) since I had last talked to him. It didn't go well back then. I had to drop this guy because he was a psychotic manipulative sociopathic alcoholic. I started to try to avoid him second semester senior year of hs after a couple of incidents, but then at the end he still ended up fucking me over, by taking my mom's car keys I had given to a sober friend to run an errand, and promptly blacking out or having a seizure something (he was hammered) and crashing into the back of a parked pickup across from a crowded frat party, then coming to, getting out of the car, and loudly claiming in front of a group from the house that had gathered that my friend needed to take the blame because he (psycho) had been hammered. Sober friend was super rich and had some connections, so cleaned it all up for them and my mom got stuck with the bill.
Anyway, one weird myspace interaction happened when I got a message that just said something like "hey" from this account with no real name (some Latin phrase) and no pictures. I didn't respond and then a couple of days later got another thing that was like "well, FUCK YOU then, asshole." I later figured out it was him, but there was no clue at all in the message or profile.
A few years later we ended up talking on the phone and had a decent catch up session, but made no plans other than that. I had heard that he had gotten into some shit (legal, substance, booze -- including barricading himself in a house with a bunch of guns and maybe a hostage), and didn't really want to engage. A week later he called again and I let it go to voicemail. He then proceeded to call like 7 more times once or twice an hour, leaving increasingly deranged screaming voicemails. I forget what I did in response to that.
This is the first contact since then. I just ignore it, right? Or what. Fuck. Like, nothing will happen, but there is a non-zero chance he tracks me down and shows up with guns. I would ask his sister about it, with whom I am friends on facebook, but she's into some weird pro-gun, border control anti-immigrant shit, and I'd heard the family blamed me for dropping him as a friend for a while, and I'd just prefer not to. The other friend from whom I could possibly get info is MIA. Maybe there's one other dude I could ask, but I'm convinced he is a Russian troll bot half the time (even though I feel him on some of these conspiracies), and could be somewhat unhinged, too.
This shit all happened in Arizona mostly, but he has a 703 area code, so I think he's in NoVa at the moment. The email was like "hello Chupe, this is your old high school chum -weird abbreviation of his first name.- If you would like to chat, here is my number."
How about just a normal email man? Maybe he is in a program and is apologizing for all the wrongs he's done?
