miscommunication
I don’t spend a lot of time chatting with my opponents, especially when we’ve gotten to be heads up. Heads up, you pretty much have to always be thinking, and I’m not even comfortable with the customary "gl" before the dealing starts. (In a MTT, sure, "gl". Good luck coming in second, I mean, since I’m going to win this, and there’s plenty of prize money for the rest of you. Heads up, there’s one prize, and we’re both trying to get it, and there’s nothing nice about any of it.)
Anyway, it happened in a hand (as it sometimes does) that my opponent was seemingly making every move right before I would make, and answering every one of my moves with a careful call. At the showdown, we both had K8o. I’m getting kind of tired of this joke, but my opponent said "nh". Like, yeah, we had the same hand! Did you notice! I like that hand! So much that I, too, played it!
I meant to shrug it off with "huh" like, "oh, really? That happens once in a while." But when I typed "huh" it must have seemed like I was missing the joke, because he typed "I was joking". And I knew that, but I just didn’t think it was funny. I typed "ok" which basically summed up my feelings about the situation, and he answered with "wtf?" WTF, indeed.
I beat him about ten minutes later, all-in preflop with A5 vs. A7. I had him barely covered, and a five hit on the flop. Classic. That, apparently, made me a "pus sy", and worthy of the insult "u r garbage - really". Some people.