A true What-are-you-wearing-Jake-from-State-Farm?-ish story
A while back, in pre-Covid times, when my daughter Marla was with her husband Glen, their adult daughter Kay and some friends at their neighborhood bar in Colorado, a guy from Nebraska named Al, whom Marla had known in high school in Nebraska, sent her a Facebook friend request. Marla remembered Al, even though they had been just casual friends as teenagers. She recalled that he'd been a good kid, so she thought why not and went ahead and friended him, as she'd friended other former classmates.
Within an hour Al's girlfriend logged onto Al's Facebook account and sent Marla a private Fb message, demanding to know how Marla knew him and what her intentions were, and on and on. Marla said the girlfriend came across like the "What are you wearing, Jake from State Farm?" woman in the TV commercial.
Marla explained to the girlfriend that she and Al had been casual friends in high school, had never dated and hadn't seen each other in decades, and that she was happily married to a great guy and wasn't looking for a boyfriend.
The girlfriend kept interrogating her, so Marla decided to have some fun and said, "OK, you got me. Al and I were steadies. Now I suppose you want me to send you his grandmother's wedding ring and the other things he gave me back then." The girlfriend said YES! and gave Marla her name (Brandy somebody) and address so Marla could send the ring and other things to her.
By then, the whole bar was in on it, giving Marla suggestions of what to say to her. Following one of the suggestions, Marla told Brandy, "OK, I'll send you the ring when he pays me all those years of back child support for our daughter Violet, who is now a single mom and could sure use the money." Kay posed for a picture of "Violet" to send to Brandy.
The Facebook discussion went back and forth for a while, with Marla and the other bar patrons playing Brandy like a fiddle, coming up with all kinds of things to say to get under her skin.
Finally, Marla admitted to Brandy that she was pulling her leg about having gone steady with Al in high school, about the ring, about "Violet" and the rest of the malarky she'd fed her, and said she hoped Brandy had learned a lesson.
Marla was not surprised that BrandyAl then up and unfriended her. 
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Boy, some people have NO sense of humor! 
(GREAT story - loved the plotting to really grind in the idiocy!) 
