Recently, I expressed interest to a certain CERN engineer who was advertising a studio in St. Genis for a reasonable price.  I visited, and told him immediately that I would take the apartment.  After informing me that there was one other competitor in the queue to visit the unit, he said that he would contact me at the beginning of the following week with information about applying for the apartment.  It was CLEAR that day that both myself and my rival would be applying, and that it would be up to the rental agency as to which of us got to start a lease.  Needless to say, I was skeptical…

By Tuesday of the next week, I had not heard from said engineer, so I wrote him a message:

Engineer,
Is there any news about the apartment?  Will I still be able to submit an application?
Regards
lovehurts

…no response…

Wednesday, Thursday…no response…

On Friday, I received this e-mail from my engineer-friend:

Dear lovehurts,
the studio is renting now
have a good day
best regards
P

(NB: This was NOT in response to my follow-up e-mail.  Nay, he sent this e-mail as a response to my initial message to him, in which I expressed interest in visiting the studio…)

In case that’s not clear to the readers, allow me to translate:

Dear lovehurts,

Hey asshole,

the studio is renting now

Fuck you!

have a good day

Fuck you again!

best regards

Do not ever speak to me or attempt to contact me again,

P

–The Engineer