While I’m not unfamilar with the stalker — the weird, middle-aged guy who lurks around the card shop you work at, somehow manages to get your phone number and begins calling your house, prompting your father to start threatening to take the shotgun off the wall; or the professor who remarks how much he likes your freckles and starts showing up outside every class you have asking you to have coffee with him; or the ex-boyfriend who was mildy abusive and extremely prone to philandering, who moves into your neighborhood and drops by on occasion with tomatoes as a “reconciliation gift” (which is nice but, dude, three years of torture was enough…) — I had always assumed the “psycho ex-girlfriend” variety was a way for men to be dismissive of some girl they no longer wanted a relationship with.
I have, of late, changed my mind. I’m sad to say, the psycho ex-girlfriend does exist, and apparently does not require much of a prior relationship to be vengeful. Gentlemen, I apologize for doubting you…