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My Package
My activities this morning took a sinister turn while at the local store shopping for some cleaner as pictured above. Obviously it’s toilet cleaner here in case you’re not familiar with the brand, and I’ll attempt to explain what went down…
The store had two options to choose from. This one above or “Spring Blossom” fragrance. Faced with such a choice, the Spring Blossom seemed appealing and images of flowers suspended through the air kind of appealed to me. Then I saw this fragrance of “Aqua Burst” and my mind just sunk into the gutter. I wondered what possible scent an “Aqua Burst” would have, and the obvious one lept into my mind straight away.
If you’re thinking the same thing, then you’re on the right blog…
“What on earth?” I thought to myself, followed by “How the heck did they capture that scent?” and “How would they even test it?” shortly afterwards. I sniggered. Loudly.
Then the lovely Duck image came into my mind and I was reminded of a funny post my friend Lisa wrote about Duck Porn. My sniggered rapidly deteriorated when I thought about the context of the word Flush in this situation.
A couple of loud nose shorts of laughter later, I managed to pull it together and finally buy the product. I have no doubt that the sales attendant thought I was up to something as I was stood there red teary-eyed with a Toilet Duck cleaner, some Headache pills and a bottle of Iced Tea at the checkout.
On the way home I pondered about my own packaging in respect to my author profile…
If you Google PJ Bayliss you get something like this…
Twisted Procreator of Short Stories, & Aspiring Erotica Writer . A Chemical Romance is a series of three Erotica stories…
Seems pretty obvious to me, and my Twitter profile is fairly obvious too, however, there’s still one thing that baffles me on a daily basis…
Followers
What, and why, and just ??? is it with people who follow your account one day, wait for you to follow back, and then unfollow? It’s rapidly becoming my little pet hate and just annoys me.
Would that kind of behavior be tolerated in real life?
I rounded the corner and stepped into the narrow alleyway. Cold corrugated iron fences gusseted the sides and the aging concrete was stained with old chewing gum, mildew, and other dreary looking substances of an unknown nature. It was getting dark and my mind wandered with my footsteps as I tried not to think of who, or what, made those stains in the first place. That was when I heard the strangers footsteps behind me, almost camouflaged in tune with my own steps. At first I though it was an echo, then I saw the broadening shadow behind me catch my own and continue to creep ahead of me. Whoever it was following was close. Almost too close for my comfort.I turned to face them, and they quickly turned and fled away from me…
“Eek!” doesn’t even cut the mustard in this situation…
Like other I use tools to monitor Followers and see what’s going on around me. I started to refer to this when I reached 2,000 followers because that when Twitter starts to lean on you a bit on Follower-Limits. Nowadays my limits seem to be a bit more relaxed and I’ve not been restricted so much.
Historically I wouldn’t really initiate following either. Part of this reasoning was I never felt like I had much to offer, but in addition to that I felt “My Package” was a bit provocative to the unsuspecting person. Some of my earlier followers stated that their accounts have Aunts & other relatives connected, so they can no longer connect in that manner without risk of judgement.
Whatever.
But that doesn’t explain why people follow -> unfollow -> follow… So I have a general rule: Do that, & I’m gone. Do that again, & I can’t be bothered. Just ‘read my package first’ before you click that Follow button.
One word of advice I do have though is always check your tools as I’ve found some basic errors do occur.
I use www.justunfollow.com which is nice & easy to use when it comes to Unfollowing those who’ve abandoned you. However, I have found many situations where I checked the real profile to find that the person is in fact still following me. The tool seems to be wrong & I have a real situation now where it is happening.
What I figure is that this person may have followed, then accidentally unfollowed by clicking that button on the phone. You know how it is, the App. isn’t responding fast enough, you’re unsure if it has clicked right, so you press the button again…
This would be enough to trigger a ‘Person who’s unfollowed you” status to the tool.
Sorry
I apologize to the ‘geek-speak’ outbreak, I’ll also apologize if I appear to have unfollowed ya because my tool is sending me the wrong message. All I’ll say is that for now, I’m trying to follow everyone back until such time as I think I have something decent here catching on.
You’d have to be an egg, or have the wrong package for me to not do so.
