im sorry if this turns out to be a long one... need to get it off my chest though...
when i was in high school i knew of a girl in the year above me that was always teased for being needy and not really listening to people...
in about 2005 i ran into her in town one night and we started to become friends... for the first few years it was great! it was a two way street... then it came time that she got a boyfriend. id been in a long term relationship at this point for about 2 years and was about to move to Darwin to follw said boy..
a week before i leave, the eve of what was supposed to be my good bye party she called and said that her man had broken it off and she needed somone. so being the friend that i am, i do the "right"thing and called off the party to instead stay in with my friend and console her.
12 months pass where we were still in daily contact and i had been dumped by my boyfriend and was returning home. upon calling her in tears asking for someone to talk to, she promptly hung up on me then sent me a txt saying that she had her own problems to deal with.. what a mate right?i gave her the benefit of the doubt though and didnt hear from her for a month.
between then and now i have been her agony aunt wheneer she gets dumped(she seems to think that as soon as a guy says yes to becoming her boyfriend she should immediately start acting like his wife and becomes VERY overbearing) i have given her money when she whinges shes broke, ive helped her friends, ive let her stay under my roof for weeks on time for nothing... all so i know shes ok...
i call her today and got hung up on.. fair enough i think to myself, shes probably busy...
i got a txt an hour ago..
"i have a problem jess, my rego is nxt week and i spent the money on alcohol for T* (T= current boyfriend)
to which i replied that i wished i could help but had only just registered my partners bike so wasnt very flush with money...
I was appalled with the response i got.....
'"well a good friend you are, you never help me when i need it, useless bitch"
I promptly deleted her number and gave up on her as a human being...
whatever happened to manners and supporting yourself. ffs, this girl lives with her parents, has a full time job and has no dependants, yet IM the bad person...???
This day and age i dont understand... take me back to the 70's! :D
I think you are an amazing friend.
ReplyDeleteI personally, love my mates, but as I don't ask for financial assistance, I know my friends will never ask me for it. Sure, if they need $10 for some basic groceries and I can spare it, sure, but to register a vehicle... well that is a LOT of money.
You have two kids that money could be better spent on, and if she didn't care about her rego enough to buy booze for her current boyfriend, then you shouldn't care about it, or her either.
You are doing what's best for yourself, and that makes YOU a great mother, and your kids are more important than needy loafers :)
Thanks Tara! i was really starting to worry about my sanity there for a minute! :P
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