Portal II Free

So this ad was placed on Craigslist this last Saturday. You'd think I'd be excited about a free video game, right? Well, I found out about it when someone texted me about it:

"I would love to have you Portal 2. Can I come pick it up from you?"

This confused me since not only was it from an unknown number and there was a grammatical error but I also had yet to have seen the ad, but I soon informed myself. I responded:

"I think you texted the wrong person, for I sadly do not own portal 2"

She then indignantly responded: "Hmm, I copied the number correctly off of Craig's List. Sorry about that."

"It's ok. Sorry it wasn't real."

I then thought to myself, "Someone's pulled a prank on me with my phone number". After a few more ill-placed text messages from random strangers eager to see if I still had the free $50 video game (one who begged me to text them back asap and another who actually quoted the link to the ad), I decided to find it for myself. I was, unfortunately, at work. I flagged down my boss, who has an iPad, and proceeded to search for it. Sure enough, the ad above had my phone number on it and I dutifully began to flag the post. However, until it was removed, I decided to have some fun with the already gullible text-ee's. I started to respond such things as various forms of apologies for not owning the game. My favorite was "What's a portal?", for that would certainly tick off any true gamer fan. :)

But now I've got it removed. Ta-da!

Of course, I tried to figure out who did it. I still don't know, so I only have my conjectures to console me. However, I did try to figure it out. A friend suggested that the post-ee might have encouraged their friends to text me about it as part of the prank (no need mind you, plenty of random text's received), so I used my handy stalking skills (i.e. googling the phone numbers who texted me then matching the unblocked names to facebook/myspace searches), but to no avail.

Now I'm just afraid that my identity will be stolen while I'm abroad @_@