in which a good person is kind

My son Ryan was home from college all week for Spring Break, and I kept expecting him to grab one of my logged-into-Twitter devices to tell the world how awesome I think he is. (I pretend to get all mad, but I secretly love it when he does this.)

Today, he went back to school, and I went out to meet a friend for lunch. We left the house at the same time, and when I got back and logged into Twitter, I saw this:

Who's the greatest? Ryan. He's the greatest. Someone should make a website named RyanWheatonEqualsGreatest.com. 

My first thought was, "I'm so glad he did that." My second thought was, "Oh fuck. Some dick is going to buy that domain and do something horrible with it."

Ryan is tremendously kind, and isn't the sort who would think "I better not do this, because someone may do something really terrible with it," but I've been around the block and through the wringer a few times, so I put the URL into Chrome, and steeled myself for the worst … but instead I saw that someone had indeed bought it, and made it go to the post he made on Twitter from my account.

I'm really lucky for a lot of reasons, but I'm especially grateful to interact with people on the Internet who are, for the most part, good people. I don't know who bought RyanWheatonEqualsGreatest.com (whois is all protected and anonymized and locked and stuff), but whoever did it is a good person.

If you're reading this, Person Who Bought RyanWheatonEqualsGreatest.com And Didn't Do Something Cruel With It, please get in touch with me; I'd like to give you something awesome as a thank you.