The best laid plans often go haywire because of the human element. And Margie Taylor was no ordinary, passive human. She awoke the next morning from a nightmarish, xanax induced sleep to the stark memory of the previous night. She slowly began to replay the events in her mind, remembering that she would receive new instructions at 8 P.M. that night, and to not block that phone number.
Margie managed to shower, grab a coffee and get mad as she drove into work. By the time she unlocked her office, she had made up her mind. Whoever this creep was, she would call his bluff. Yes, he won the night before. Yes, she texted nude pics of herself to a stranger. But no more! Margie Taylor had built her insurance business on hard work and fight, and she would not entertain this pervert again.
Margie went into full social butterfly overdrive. She met with customers. She troubleshot insurance claims. She even had lunch with two ladies from her church small group Bible study. She had mentored one of them whose past involved drugs and prostitution.
Brian Webb woke the next morning to a mixture of guilt and elation. But any guilt he felt melted in the arousal he received looking at pictures of Margie Taylor naked. His plan was devious and simple. Brian spent the morning editing the pictures, with the intention of sending them back to Margie. He would force her to create a personal account on a large porn site that dealt with amateur submissions, and upload the pictures onto the website herself. He would continue his threat to text the pictures to her top male clients if she didn't go along.
As she left work late that afternoon, Margie noticed the billboard near her office featuring her bright smile and the Margie Taylor Insurance logo. She would lose her business if those pictures got out. Yet, she was determined that this little charade would go no further. Though she didn't drink often, this night she poured a glass of wine and resolutely blocked the number on her phone; the very number Brian Webb had instructed her not to block. Margie then turned her computer off. The wine calmed her nerves as 8 P.M. came and went.
As promised, Brian texted his next set of instructions at 8 P.M. He waited impatiently for five minutes...ten minutes...15 minutes. No response. It slowly dawned on him that Margie Taylor had called his bluff. Brian considered his options. He could walk away and delete the pictures. No harm done. He could post the pictures himself. He could carry out his threat to text the pictures. But Brian wanted to keep the game going and up the ante. Therefore, he decided on plan that would make Margie immediately and personally feel the effects of her rebellion.
The ding on her cellphone awoke Margie from a wine induced sleep. She gasped at the message. "Saw your ad on craigslist. You still looking?" "What the heck is going on", Margie cried out. Another text came in; "hey babe, love your ad. Can I call you?" Margie frantically turned on her computer to check her hometown Craigslist ads.
Margie scanned the page till she found the personals section and clicked on the "Women Seeking Men" heading. The very top ad read "Business woman looking for a partner tonight." When she clicked on the ad, there, for the entire world to see, was a picture of Margie smiling and topless. The ad read "A whore charges for it, but this slut gives it away for free. I'm for real, I'm drug free and disease free. You be too, because I love it bareback and hate condoms! If this ad is up, I'm still looking, send me a text and I'll pick a lucky winner." The ad included her cellphone number.
Margie was too tipsy and too clueless about Craigslist to know she could "flag" the ad, so she simply freaked out and froze up. Then the defiant Margie Taylor, who had said no more of this, picked up her phone with hands shaking, and unblocked the dreaded number from the previous night. The expected, fateful text soon came in.
It read, "You broke the rules. Breaking the rules has consequences. Do you understand this?" Margie meekly texted her reply, "yes, but please take that ad down. I'll do whatever you ask." At that moment, Brian knew that he had won. Margie knew she had lost.