| Heh. I have a RL parallel to this one.
My smug, supposedly morally superior (just ask her) 19-year old Mormon step-daughter moved away to live with relatives in Florida. While living with her mother and I, she was hitting ICQ hard every night. Little did I know at the time how hard...
After a phone conversation with her regarding the forwarding of e-mail, what to do with files she left behind, etc. I decided to clean up her ICQ message archives to get rid of the stuff she had done while she was here (she already downloaded a copy onto a Zip disc before she left). Naturally curiousity got the better of me, and evoking a little known step-father pseudo sys admin statute (ok, I'm a nosy bastard who rationalized), I decided to glance over what she said to some of the people she corresponded with.
Most of what I saw was pretty boring routine type conversations (the kind you would expect a supposedly morally superior 19-year old Mormon female to have), until I stumbled across the cybersex. Lots of cybersex. With probably over a dozen guys.
Not wishing to delete what could be valuable correspondence (well on the blackmail market anyway...) without first making a proper back-up locally, I saved what I found as text files. Later, I thought it might be a good idea if I sent copies of the text files as attachments to an e-mail, in which I asked if she cared to give me any specific handling instructions for the files and indicated that I hadn't told her mother about them yet...
She is a much more pleasant person to me on the phone these days. It's nice when you can get along so well with your step daughter.... :-)
--h |
