Quote from nutmeg:
My mother was a troll. Yuppers, not an internet troll but an in person troll. Her favorite people to troll were lawyers. I'll give you an example.
I'd take her to some touristy area, just for the day, have lunch and spend time in shops. So one day we are in a gift shop, I look for her and she is gone. Not in the store, not anywhere outside, not in the bathroom...just gone.
I check a few neighboring shops on either side..no ma. I'm not worried, I know she;ll turn up so I sit on a bench outside and wait.
!/2 hour later here she comes out of a door between shops. I said "Where were you?" She hands me a card and it has a lawyers name on it. She went in and was talking to him about the time she got rear ended by a drunk driver in a mall parking lot 25 years before.
Ma has told this story to dozens of lawyers, the case was resolved 24 years ago (no one was drunk) but she keeps using up her "free consultation" with any lawyer who'll give her an appointment.
She has a bag full of important looking documents.
Part two......
When she gets bored with her DD case. She seeks out lawyers for a name change. this is usually a pretty cheap legal process and she has 4 names that I know about.
Ma is 80 now and sharp as a whip, not as mobile and she doesn't troll anymore..but those were the days....
Fyi..she has trolled financial planners and doctors. She would go see a doctor then go to the lawyer and tell him she wants to sue the doctor,,then tell the financial planner she is coming into big money.
Nothing wrong with good trolling. I've found that trolls tend to more energetic on average, less likely to take the world too seriously. I don't have that much experiences with the female variety, though I have heard stories like the one you just told.
They are the kind of persons who get a dopamine rush out of romantic rejection or insults rather then feelings of deep hurt. Its almost as if they are tripping on LSD until you find out that they are mentally sane. They are the opposite of neurotics. In many ways, I think that there are too few good trolls out there these days.
I've known one guy who wasn't particularly good looking or smart, but because he was approaching up to 300 random women each day, getting rejected by 99%, he got laid almost every single night. That was trolling and funny as hell. He was always laughing, never really depressed. He used a lot of cannabis, though. At some point he was spending most of his nights in the apartments of women. He got in trouble with the law once for attempting to seduce a jail-bait girl and spend a few days in jail, but didn't think much about it. People would attempt to get him angry but they just couldn't. On the other hand, his trolling did get people angry. All of it was fairly innocuous but it completely enraged some, amused most.
He had some college education, but never held a job. In the early days of the internet, I told him that he could make a fortune filming his daily pranks. He would have no one of it, though, as he was happy living the way he did. If you'd tell this guy that he got terminal cancer, he would just laugh about it. If ever he gets hit by a train he will still be laughing.
