Me, Karla Faye Tucker and Best Buy

I created a stir at Best Buy today.....I'd like to say in a good way but as always I'm a disaster waiting to happen.  Now before I get to Karla Faye....let me just say that Best Buy gives me a panic attack....it's like a Junior WalMart.  Too many bright fluorescent lights and employees running around in man-cut polo shirts asking to help me.....merely walking thru the door brings me to a cold sweat.  But I was forced too because I had a little electronics issue....I always have electronic issues.

Things were going fine....fabulous, actually....until the Geek Squad decided to clear my browser history.  I was breathing fine...staying calm, cool and collected.  Now I know what you all are going to think- that boring, prudish Murph had porn or something of that nature on my browser because what else would make the Geek Squad suddenly call for assistance and look at me as if I were nuts but no.....it was Karla Faye Tucker. 

A couple of weeks ago when I was working at the bookstore I saw a DVD about Karla Faye...looked interesting, but I wasn't interested enough to buy it so I did what every red blooded American would do....I googled her.  Karla Faye Tucker was the first woman to be executed in the US since 1984 and the first woman in Texas since 1863....she killed several people with a pick axe.  She became a Christian and tried to get her sentence changed to life instead of the death penalty....and it was a huge deal...she even married the prison chaplain.  Pope John Paul II, Newt Gingrich and televangelist Pat Robertson even tried to help her......(now before people get all riled up I'm neither endorsing or not endorsing the above people....just telling my story).  The last words she said while she was getting her lethal injections were "i'll see you all in heaven one day"....

Well, I love a good murder mystery/serial killer drama.....I live for Snapped on Oxygen and 48 Hours Mystery and Nancy Grace.  I love reading True Crime novels and mysteries.  Lifetime is my friend.

So anyway as most googlers know....once you read about one thing they suggest other topics which led me to Betty Lou Beets.  The Black Widow.  Oddly enough she was also from Texas....she killed 3 out of 5 of her husbands and also died of lethal injection.  And then came Lynda Lyon Block from Alabama...she killed an Opelika police officer and was put to death for it.  And did you know that each person that goes to "the chair" gets a last meal request and gets to pick 5 people to view it.  Which led me to Rhonda Belle Martin, also from Alabama, who poisoned her 5th husband who was also her former son-in-law.  Then came me looking up stats on the electric chair and hangings and the Salem Witch Trials.  I admit it's a little strange....but I had some time on my hands.  I also bought a pair of shoes that night so my whole evening wasn't filled with serial killers. 

But sadly....all this happened right after the tragedy in Colorado....(which I am  in no way downplaying or trying to draw attention too)....so when I took my laptop, covered in Vera Bradley adhesive polka dots.....while wearing a big polka-dot bow in my hair...covered from head-to-toe in  a monogrammed necklace, ring and purse combo..wearing Converse sneakers with hot pink ribbon laces...the Geek Squad apparently decided I should be on the FBIs most wanted list.  Totally not kidding....the manager of the Geek Squad pulled me into the office to discuss my "browsing history"......so after I explained that I wasn't crazy (after going into a full-fledged panic attack in which the manager wanted to call for an ambulance)....well in a mass murder kind of way....just normal crazy....and that I really just got caught up in the world of Google all was right again.  So I narrowly escaped being the headline on WLOS....my computer has a cookie issue......I wish I had some cookies....and why does this stuff happen to me.

Clear your browsers people......moral of the story.