Afraid of Me, but not Myself

Why are people afraid of me?

I mean "me," not me.

Nobody wants to sound uneducated. There must be something about the word "me" that strikes people as grammatically incorrect. "The meeting on Tuesday is just between Sheryl and myself."

Not true. It's "Sheryl and ME." Not...you know, *me* me. You get the point.

The intern's goodbye email made the rounds. "You were all such lovely co-workers to myself." There it was in writing, from the pen of a college graduate.

(Granted, it was a u$c graduate. Still. It bugged me. It did not bug myself.)

Why do people not understand the reflexive? You don't say to someone, "Call Bill or myself." You can only perform an action TO yourself as the object. I fed myself. I dressed myself. I dialed the wrong number and accidentally called myself. I flung myself off a cliff. You can fling yourself off a cliff, and I can fling myself off a cliff, but you can't tell me to fling yourself off a cliff. I can only fling MYself, and you can fling YOURself.

At the meeting, the cliff-flinging will be discussed by you and me. If you don't show up for the meeting, I will vindicate myself by flinging you off a cliff.

And do NOT tell me that before I fling you off that cliff, you'd like a photo of "you and I."