Friend Won't Go Away
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- designerror0
I got a career, wife, kid and a house.
http://www.brandens.net/files/So…
*Dumps wife, quits job, sells house.
- fooler0
I have a friend like that and I invited him and his lovely wife to my wedding. His wife is the only person that can keep him grounded and she's not coming. He's asked to stay at my crib for 5 days during the wedding. I have family coming and they're going to ask whos the drunk passed out in that pile of blow with the 2 dead hookers...I just know it's going to go down like that!
- designerror0
I have a friend like that and I invited him and his lovely wife to my wedding. His wife is the only person that can keep him grounded and she's not coming. He's asked to stay at my crib for 5 days during the wedding. I have family coming and they're going to ask whos the drunk passed out in that pile of blow with the 2 dead hookers...I just know it's going to go down like that!
fooler
(Sep 18 06, 10:07)Hang on to that buddy! You might wanna hang with him after you are hitched....
- TheBlueOne0
Reminds me of this guy we affectionately called "Joey Socks On His Arms."
Apparently in a bitte rbreakup with an ex-girlfriend I got him in the settlement, not quite sure how. Poor guy apparently got a bad sunburn and then showed up to one of then weekly softball games with tube socks on his arms from his wrists to his shoulders (with the stripey-end up top). We stared at him trying to figure out why he had socks on his arms, and he said "I got a bad sunburn so now I have socks on my arms."
Of course.
He also used to bring a small amplifier and a guitar to each solft ball game to play Van Halen's eruption on before he would bat. Good old Joey Socks On His Arms was a strange dude...
- Tara0
what's the big deal? 2-3 x a year is nothing. just say hi do the chit chat and go on with your life. he's not asking much of you.
- 305artist0
I wonder if he died, would you care?
- Jaline0
Everyone has a friend like that. If its only 2-3 times a year like you say then I wouldn't worry about it much.
nocomply
(Sep 18 06, 08:50)Very true. Also, I have a few ppl who periodically call me only when they want something. Usually for free, and I make up some story because there's no way I'm giving something to someone else when I paid for it and it doesn't cost that much.
- Jaline0
At the same time, I hate when I make a lot of effort to stay in touch with people and they don't make any effort whatsoever. And then one day they say, "So how come you never talk to me anymore?" or something similar, and I just want to slap them.
So...maybe you should just be glad that someone is trying to contact you and just dismiss the calls or talk to him for a bit. It's only a few times a year.
- _salisae_0
hi jaline :)
- Soler0
can you just not pick up?
- mrdobolina0
everyone has a few friends like that. part of life.
- _salisae_0
the issue here isn't the phone calls. he's asking for advice on how to handle the malcontent that has grown inside of him since the two split the difference in their lifestyles. he's slightly jealous as he stated.
the bigger thing to do would obviously be to take the kindness/abuse which the friend may or may not know he's inflicting.
but if you don't want to there isn't any real moral dilemma there. people change.
- Jaline0
heh, hi Shari :)
- barbtastic0
who in the hell would be jealous of 2 brats and a wife
- maky0
i am now wearing socks on my arms every Friday - just as soon as I find socks like that.
- coolosxapps0
Next time he calls ask him to borrow a relatively large sum of money. Tell him it's for a gambling debt.
Every call should get the same question but make the sum of money greater each time.
sound desperate.
after 5 calls you will never hear from him again.
- Teeuwen0
lol yeah good one.
- coolosxapps0
as soon as his wife finds out that you are asking to borrow money she will end the friendship immediately. No turning back.
- Teeuwen0
until you REALLY need to borrow money. then friends like these can all of a sudden come in pretty handy.
- peepingTom0
maybe he is jealous of you...
maybe he isn't happy with its life and you are the only contact point with something that for him is just his golden age...
If he calls you once or twice a year he's not that anoying...