Carissa Conti (@Carissa_Conti)

More noteworthy "Oracle Scrabble" So our building has a nutjob older dude named Skip, originally from Staten Island (that's what you get when you live in south Florida....) who looks like a "demented Papa Smurf" as Tom describes him due to the white hair and facial hair. He lives alone and has nothing to do, so his whole thing is lurking/creeping around. He's "THAT GUY" getting up in everybody's business - looking in people's cars, peeping in apartment windows, pestering people with nosy questions and forcing people to try to engage with him, where every "conversation" is him just talking *at* people, as many NY'ers tend to do, and where anything you can say he tries to outdo/one up, like a pissing contest....again....as many NY'ers tend to do; staring at females (and I mean staring....when you look directly back at him he won't look away....he just locks eyes and staaarreeesssss.....) forcing "helpfulness" onto people who didn't ask and don't want it, 'cause nobody wants to be engaging with him. And yet another favorite pastime of his has been abusing/hurting the stray/abandoned cats in the complex when he thinks nobody's looking. So....p.o.s. Not just a harmless creeper. There were two friendly cats that we and many of our other neighbors in the building have helped feed and look after over the years, and he was caught red handed kicking one of them (nicknamed "Sweetie" by our neighbor Claudia) as well as kicking their food dishes off the hallway balcony that were left out by neighbors; he was also suspected of breaking a wine glass into one of the food dishes out of anger/spite. Sweetie was absolutely terrified of him. Then both of those cats mysteriously disappeared one day. We suspect he killed them. But then he turns around trying to be all fake friendly/innocent/nosy busybody with everybody like he's everybody's friend. Nobody likes him though. Last week things finally came to a head as I knew they eventually would - I've bit my tongue for years w/ him, but he crossed a boundary when I was trying to do my laundry. Long story. During the confrontation he pulled every nutjob "argument tactic" that one can pull - lying, denying, projecting, chaotically diverting/distracting/changing the subject, making delusional self aggrandizing statements. Just everything. Afterwards I decided for fun to do the old oracle Scrabble thing, see if I had any luck. Asked what the deal is with Skip and what just happened, while pulling tiles. The first three were V, E, D, so I knew....it's gonna be the word devil, watch. :D And sure enough I got the "I" and the "L." Then O, O, Z, S, and a couple of other tiles that didn't go with anything. Devils Zoo. Yup. That sounds about right. The more advanced, incarnated alongside p.o.s.'s like Skip, in this loosh farm zoo serving negative forces.