Apparently, Paris is the City of Love, however, from where I stand, it’s the city of former lovers. No need to cue the violins, but of late I have run into not one, not two, but three dreaded exes when minding my own business in various watering holes across the city, including at my own birthday party! In one instance, I was collecting my friend’s son from his school in the Champ de Mars in the middle of the afternoon when I bumped into one—all backpacked, blandly dressed and BO. How is possible that one person can run into so many former flames in a city with a population of 2.2 million and 45 million tourists annually? Sacré bleu!
There might not be a way of removing exes from one’s real life, but there’s now a way to remove them from your virtual world. Block Your Ex is a free plug-in that allows you to enter the details of up to five of your long-since-extinguished flames to berid your browser of their bad energy. By entering their blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts, the plug-in prevents you from viewing their pictures and blocks them from your search engine results.
Despite its practical implications associated with the prevention of stalking your ex’s activity, it does lack that certain satisfaction that comes with looking hot when they’ve stacked on the pounds, invested in a ridiculous-looking nose ring or have aged poorly. Should curiosity get the better of you, there’s always the option to unlock the page in question, but we all know what happened to the cat.
Published on 28 September 2010 by Agony Uncle