I’ve come to conclusion recently about something that isn’t astounding nor necessarily unexpected, but nonetheless still interesting, at least from my perspective:

I’m a pretty likable guy.

I mean, I get along with most people, or at least that large segment of the population that doesn’t fall into the category “massive douche-bag.” I’m easy-going, pretty funny if you ask me and can converse on many levels. I’m no genius, but I can hold my own in an intellectual conversation.

Another way I know I must be pretty likable?

This one Twitter page, @asbestosaffects, really wants to be my friend and I don’t know why.

I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever eaten any asbestos or lived in an asbestos-filled house in the past 15 years.Well, not recently anyway. No, actually I’m pretty confident I never have been around it.

Oh, there’s that one place I lived in college. But honestly, I’m sure I didn’t live in the part that had asbestos, if any of it did.  It was only for a year and the room I had on the first floor was more of an addition.

And by addition, I don’t mean like a nicely built, strong, settled, sturdy room. No, I mean it was a lean-to. It was pretty much a porch built on the side of a house. It was about 9-foot long and roughly 5-foot wide. Just the right price for the $73 a month I paid in rent.

Now, I’m sure there was no asbestos in that lean-to because there was nothing in the walls. It was straight paneling on 2×4 or whatever cheap lumber they threw on there. There was no insulation either. I distinctly remember a couple winter mornings where I woke up and went to turn off my alarm clock to try to make my 10:30 a.m. class and the clock was frosted. As in, the room felt cold enough to be around 32 degrees. I shit you not.

So this @asbestosaffects has no reason to track me down from that.

On the Twitter page, it describes itself as a site for: “What effect has asbestos on your health, what diseases can you get.” I don’t know about the grammar, but, I’m pretty sure I don’t have any diseases, or at least ones caused from asbestos. Maybe it just has me confused with someone else. I haven’t been to a doctor lately but maybe my name, as common as it is, was listed on some doctor roll call sheet or something that its going by to get new followers.

Anyway, I’m not sure why it wants to follow me on Twitter. It’s tried twice and I’ve declined both times. Now it’s back for No. 3 and I just left it in my cue.

I don’t think I’m going to allow it, but I will say it’s nice to be liked.