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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I'm actually gonna go ahead and say that Springs1 is more than just one crazy woman.
It is an idea. You can't kill an idea. Springs1 has grown into a legend. Who knows if the real Springs1 is still alive. Maybe he/she retired long ago and his/her legacy has been carried on by another and another after that one and so on.
It's like the Dread Pirate Roberts from The Princess Bride.
Westley: Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. 'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts' he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.' |
That's my working theory at this point. In the past there probably was a real Springs1, an unreasonable customer who decided to take up an online crusade against the service industry/tipping culture. She may have even started one of the blogger/live journal/wordpress sites out there.
But she grew bored of this beast she had created and moved on with her life. But her pure, uncut crazy post were in tact. Waiting for a million copy/paste jobs into forums such as ours.
Eventually some one came across her long abandoned blog and realized they had struck internet troll gold. Armed only with the idea of "it's always the server's fault!" they created some google alerts to monitor chatter about servers/tipping, so that whenever the topic comes up Springs1 will be there. Spewing her twisted tails of forgotten ranch and specifically cooked fries.
Springs1, she's the troll the internet deserves, not the one it needs.