Easy, since you took this person to your parents house, I would assume this was a friend.
I would say this friend made you look like an idiot for having her as a friend.
If someone can't respect your parents.. IN THEIR HOME.
They also have no respect for you.

I agree.

Unfortunetly, it gets worse.

The day after our return, the rental car (that I paid for) needed to be back. I got a text at 2:30pm.... "just woke up".

My neigbors helped me out.

Two hours later I locked my keys in my car. I sent her a message... 40 minutes later I got a reply, "That sucks. What are you going to do?"


It was my birthday.

Stop making friends with people that you meet in front of pawn shops

And Happy belated!!

Ha, thanks. Actually we'd been friends for four years.

I told her I was upset, she never called. She texted.... and most of what she had to say was mean.

It's hard to lose a friend. Very, very hard.

Oh Lilith, people sure do suck, what hurts is when we have befriended them and they act as such.

Happy Belated B'day

Thats just my point, Are you in fact losing a friend??
That just depends on what you call a friend.
And to me, her mean response shows that she wasn't a real friend to start with.
I remember being told many times "a friend in need is a friend in deed"

So few know what a true friend is.

She told me I was a baby, that my examples were minute, that she did nothing wrong, that I had no basis for my feelings, and that she was offended I did not tell her during my family vacation that I was displeased with her behavior. It was my fault and my standards are too high.


I have to wonder....

I have integrity. I'd rather be construed as rigid by those that don't than be treated badly or my family disrepected.

Not to mention my poor son. He loves her. Even after she treated him so badly.

Yeah.... I know she wasn't my friend now. But the sense of loss is still there.

And thanks, Fran. I'm 35 now....

Don't shed tears, women do get better with age

You are still young, beautiful, and intelligent.

Boy do I remember my 30's

Don't play with peoples feelings and don't allow others to play with yours!

As for the sense of loss, Don't really know what to say except.. it will pass and you will make more friends, But know you have a better idea of what bad traits to watch for.

The sad thing is, Few have any common sense these days!!
Myself, Just a fairly hard person,
I refuse to grieve the loss of a friendship of anyone who is a user or abuser.
And in time.. she will wake up and realize how badly she stupidly screwed up a great friendship.

Then put up some current pictures girlfriend!!
Not these pictures of when you were 28!!!

The only way I can afford to travel is to be someone's house guest. I am always polite. I always clean up after myself. I ask before I use anything of theirs. I never expect them to entertain me.

In a couple weeks I'm staying with a cousin for a week and a half in Denver. I was there a few months ago and she offered to let me stay at anytime because I was a good guest. Good manners are not hard to have.

I recently had a house guest for two weeks, & I was ready to commit murder by day 2.

Whenever I stay at someone's house, I make sure that I clean up after myself, ask permission before using anything not expressly stated as being available to me (ie food, beverages, etc.) and make sure that I am not monopolizing their time. If it's more than two days, I offer to bring/buy groceries or beverages of their choice, and help with the cooking if they let me. I know how much I hate it when my houseguests don't use basic courtesy, so make darn sure that I practice what I preach (so to speak).

a few years ago some friends and i cruised down to the beach for memorial day weekend. one guy knew a couple who said we could crash at their place. cool. when we got there, we found out it was their new house that they hadn't even moved into and they were staying at the old house for a few more weeks. man that is seriously generous and trusting . one day i woke up and REALLY needed to go but both bathrooms were in use. i got a little desperate and walked across the street to some new homes being built to give a toilet a test run. a few minutes later my friend showed up in the exact same situation as me . great minds think alike....except for one thing; on my way i grabbed a box of kleenex and some liquid soap. he had...his hands .

HAHAHA

What a night that was eh?!

At least you didnt have a drunk driver getting you lost in the middle of toronto, and getting you to your hotel room at 4am, when you had to check out by 11am, and then leaving you 20 dollars and 35 CENTS!! as help towards the 140 dollar charge, for using the spare bed in the room, after already having let you pay the bar bill of a couple hundred dollars.


You gotta laugh!

haha yes i agree; you did get the worse end of that stick.

i explained to the guy - about 4 times - how to get where he was going, and even left a map and directions in the car. i guess in his drunken stupor, he stopped listening.

yet he had the nerve to phone my house at about 3:00 to tell me he was lost (he'd gone in a complete different direction by at least an hour and was even in a different city!)