Today my mom, bored lover of games and mysteries, bragged about outsmarting scammers by burning all the post and gifts they have been sending her. For a special birthday / Christmas, I'd splurged on an expensive, interactive mystery game where you are mailed clues over the course of 6 months. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, as my wife loves games, she set me a series of clues leading to our date night, where she's waiting for me. WHY? She knows how bad a problem solver I am. By the time she realised I was going to be hopelessly late, and answered my 50 missed calls, I’d only solved the first 2 clues out of 18 total. FML
Today, my sisters and I pitched together nearly $500 to send my mom to the spa for Mother's Day. We put the printed sheet with her info into a little box with our card on top. When she opened it, she freaked out and started hugging my dad. Turns out he switched the cards and took all the credit. FML
Today, I received three big boxes from my mother in law, containing expensive cookware. I was puzzled, because I know that she hates me. Turns out she mailed them to us by mistake. Not only did she not get us anything, but I now have to pay to ship the boxes to her neighbor. FML
Today, I discovered my mom has been using my credit card to buy everyone's Christmas presents. FML
Today, my mom told me that I needed to manage my spending better. This is the same woman who will log onto Candy Crush Saga, play a level and not come remotely close to beating it, and then blow $20+ on it to complete it. She got just a tad angry when I pointed out this hypocrisy. FML
Today, my best friend excitedly told me all about this new video game she'd just discovered that she thought I'd love. It was her Xmas present from me 2 years ago. FML
Today, it's my husband's birthday. I tried to buy him a new computer game, to which he complained. I cooked him steak and his favorite cake, and got him another nice gift instead. Hours later, his online friends bought him a new game and it was the only time I saw him genuinely smile. FML
Today, it's my birthday. My mom and three other relatives each bought me a copy of Diablo 3 for my birthday. A video game that I didn't ask for, for a console I don't have. FML
Today, I received the 'special' present my mother had sent me for my 21st birthday. I opened the box and saw that my mother had picked out, accessorized and shipped to me, in college, a doll. FML
Today, I won a game of Monopoly against my girlfriend. She reacted by sweeping the board off the table, storming out the front door, and mowing down my mailbox driving away. FML
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Tripartita 45
Even if the gifts were items from scammers, I don't see how becoming the scammers' elaborate garbage collector would be "outsmarting" them. If she got hypothetical scammers to send /her/ money, then we'd have something… "A murder at the duchess' palace has left us in need of your help… if you could send—" "Sure, but I'll need about thirty bucks for supplies." "Uh… okay, but then we'll requir—" "And food."
kumarina 35
And now you solve the mystery of why she didn't mention anything about it so far...
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hey_micky 8
I'm sorry but YDI. why on earth would you buy something like that and not tell her it was coming? I highly doubt a warning that it was coming is going to ruin the mystery, otherwise I'm guessing the company would have a lot of complaints from people accidentally throwing it out
chosha_fml 27
Why on Earth didn't you tell her it was coming? Surely the clues are the mystery. She still needed to know it was happening.
rldostie 19
That really sucks, but may be fixable. You may be able to contact the company and ask them to resend the clues. You may be able to argue that she never got them (because did she? We don't know since she apparently was burning mail willy nilly). Hopefully, they can resend and she can get the experience proper this time.
caliguy08 17
You totally deserve that
AJSAngel 5
For those telling the OP they deserve it for not telling their mother, part of the mystery is figuring out who the sender is, or at least that is my understanding. (Source: I've been looking into doing one of these for my husband.)
TheLadyOpal 30
I'm sorry but some people just are going to be suspicious about getting mysterious packages in the mail. It sucks, but you should have made absolutely sure this was going to work the way you wanted it to.
GrumpyGrinch 23
I would have done the same as your mom did. Mystery mail goes to mystery bin. Give the person at least some kind of warning!
yerawizardlizzy 27
I like the idea of Mysterious Package Company, but I don't think I would like to be the recipient. My friend told me she almost did one for me, but decided against it because she figured I'd be freaked. And honestly, I would be. A few years ago another friend got me flowers for my birthday and the florist forgot her name and I totally freaked out. People generally don't give me gifts, and at the time I had had problems with unwanted advances from customers, so my anxiety went through the roof. But seriously, who the hell burns mail and packages?! You can just write "refused" on them and take them back to the post office.
kevinsagirl2323 8
Why would burning gifts outsmart scammers?
JasonThorn 23
To top it all off, if you receive something that you didn't ask for or order, then it is legally a "gift" and you can't be charged for it.
isquaredkeepingitreal 24
This is a great idea, my suggestion would have been for the son to be around his mother for the first clue, so he could help her start the "quest". I know my fiance would love something like this, but solving 'crimes'. He studied criminal justice in college and did case studies. He would always talk about forming a class for students where they worked with local police to solve real cold cases. Since that idea would take a lot of cooperation with police and confidential information to students, it was not the easiest request, even with a supportive faculty/college. Until then, I'm going to suggest to him creating a murder mystery game for college students as one of the research paper replacement and see what he says!