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Whats the most ridiculous reason for someone ignoring you?

69 replies

Tinaarena · 18/11/2019 14:21

I currently am being ignored by a good friend.

Im going through a very recent break up with my ex, I saw him Saturday and we got into a heated discussion. I met up with friend Saturday afternoon and told her I didnt want to go over it right there and then as it upsets me.

fast forward to yesterday, I received a text and forgot to reply immediately (was just getting served in a shop as I read it) it was 3/4 hours before she text again to tell me "I suck, as a friend I was there for you but you cant even reply to my texts, you made me feel like a good friend but then have left me hanging for 4 hours".

So now im being ignored... please tell me theres a worse reason out there than this because I cant quite believe my once sane lovely friend is behaving like this!

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slipperywhensparticus · 18/11/2019 14:27

Because someone said that they heard that I had told someone else that I wasnt talking to them (or something like that)

nevergotthehangofthursdays · 18/11/2019 14:41

This is definitely a problem encountered with females who've never progressed much beyond early adolescence. Grin

I once had a 'best friend' at this age who was good at randomly ignoring me. One time I got so pissed off with her turning her back on me and laughing with the group, I thumped her hard in the middle of the shoulder blades. (Well, I was 14.) When I asked her about it later, she claimed that I'd been in a mood all day and she wanted me to get angry enough to let it all out. Confused Still cant't believe I swallowed that one.

Meandyouandyouandme · 18/11/2019 14:44

My H once ignored me for 3 days because I’d had a fringe cut in my hair Confused

QforCucumber · 18/11/2019 14:44

I told a friend to leave my wedding because she was being a brat and telling everyone she was bored, somehow that was all my fault and she's not spoken to me since.

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Tinaarena · 18/11/2019 14:46

3 days over a fringe @meandyouandyouandme Shock was it one of those 1cm fringe things that some over priced fancy hairdressers do!

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fleapriest · 18/11/2019 14:48

Because I moved back into my parents home with 2 dc, after having to sell the family home with ex husband as he had an affair.
My dad hasn't spoke to me since, and that was 2 years ago

TheJoxter · 18/11/2019 14:50

An ex (when we were together) ignored me for

  • several days for cutting my hair ‘without asking permission’
  • a full week for no apparent reason, later told me it was because I ‘wasn’t happy enough’ Hmm
  • for several hours because I wouldn’t stop tidying the house and pay full attention to him instead
  • for several hours because I’d asked if he wanted to come swimming with me!
Morgan12 · 18/11/2019 14:51

Omg that's awful!
How can your Dad justify that?

elQuintoConyo · 18/11/2019 14:52

Mother didn't speak to me for three days as she was mad over something my dad had done. Like mow the grass the wrong way, or some such piffle. It was pathetic. I was 17 and still remember how shitty it was.

elQuintoConyo · 18/11/2019 14:53

Oh fleapriest what a spiteful man!
Flowers

SpoonBlender · 18/11/2019 14:54

I was unpleasant to her in a dream.
We do not speak any more.

Meandyouandyouandme · 18/11/2019 15:03

@Tinaarena no he just doesn’t like me with a fringe! I think I look better with one, took me 20 years to get one though.

ghostmouse · 18/11/2019 15:05

My ex never spoke to me for 2 days once because I cheated on him in a dream.

He also kept snarling at me if I dared asked him what is done..kept saying you know what you've done. Wtf Confused

He did and still does have issues with confusing reality with fantasy

custardbear · 18/11/2019 15:20

One girl at uni was obsessed with a mutual friend, they shared a house together with other friends and I lived with my boyfriend elsewhere but this mutual friend and I were closer than this other girl wanted, she went all out on a warpath for me, an absolutely bitxh trying to cut me off from the whole group of friends, lying about me, I tried once to ask her what her problem was and she snarled back 'you' ... everyone knew it was her being a jealous little cow .. sadly I don't see her any more, thank fuck! But I see all the others who sided with me eventually seeing through the lying cow

PlinkPlink · 18/11/2019 15:32

When I was 17, I went out into town with some mates. One them brought her boyfriend along.

He was a twat. Rude, arrogant and not accepting other peoples views. I was quite vocal about how twattish he was.

As the night went on, I had more drink and became more merry. We were stood outside a shop for refreshments and I started talking to the bloke and we got on alright. I thought I'd maybe made a rash judgement and apologised.

In my drunkenness, I held his hand, but more like in an apologetic way. Like I'm sorry I judged you to be a dick kind of way. I was deeply in love with the bloke I was seeing at the time so this was a purely platonic hand hold.

Next thing I know, I'm being ignored and blanked. She decided to suddenly not sit next to me in classes and totally blanked me in the common room. I had completely forgotten about the handhold in my drunken haze but she took such great offense to it.

If I'd been flirting with him I'd understand but I hadn't. She didnt even give me an explanation. Just blanked Confused

chatnicknameyousuggested · 18/11/2019 15:36

A friend of mine once emailed me a photo of his new pet rabbits. I ignored them for 2 days because I was so busy. He blocked me on our equivalent of whatsapp.

He is a criminal court judge.

EmmiJay · 18/11/2019 15:39

A 'friend' of mines ghosted me because of my ex being well known. I posted some huge news about a David Guetta meet up my ex was having and she blocked me! Haven't heard a peep since and that was a year ago.

Mrsjayy · 18/11/2019 15:40

Because i lifted the wrong bag at playgroup we took it back as soon as we realised the mum snatched it and has hardlt broke breath to me inTWENTY THREE years Shock

NormaBean · 18/11/2019 15:47

Because I didn’t get her a Christmas card. I had been sitting at my terminally ill mum’s bedside at the time, she passed away on Christmas Day.

Although she knew this, I still felt the need to explain myself to which she replied ‘yes your mum has gone but I’m still here, it’s only a fucking card’.

Hasn’t spoken to me since. Thank fuck.

Bobismyfriend · 18/11/2019 16:07

Holy shit Norma that is absolutely awful! What a crappy friend.

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Tinaarena · 18/11/2019 16:33

God some of these are just awful, they certainly do make you realise whose worth having in your life and who isn't dont they.

normabean im so sorry you went through that on Christmas Day of all days but to have your friend say that think is unforgivable.

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KurriKurri · 18/11/2019 16:58

A 'friend' once ignored me because I was waiting in a queue to use an ATM, and when it got to my turn she started shouting ' hurry up there's a queue behind you' before I;d even started putting my PIN in. I replied 'I'm sure they won't mind waiting their turn like I had to' and she stormed off. Didn't speak to me for days. I didn;t actually notice for quite a while (Thought she was just being a bit quiet Grin ) but I tried to show her some photos and she turned her head away and I said 'are you ignoring me?' and she said she was. And continued to do so for several days.
It was bizarre.
She is no longer a friend - she was way too high maintenance - I'm a simple straightforward type and I can;t be doing with drama llamas.

Fluffycloudland77 · 18/11/2019 17:00

Sil isn’t talking to us because I turned dh against her.

Except I didn’t.

And I know what she did.

It’s actually because she talks to everyone except her dad like shit and no one wants to be around her.

We don’t miss her.

Mamabear144 · 18/11/2019 17:20

Because I wouldn't put her before ds who was under 1 and haven't talked in over a year now, would walk straight past each other in public now. I wouldn't dump ds on my mother to go for a drink whenever she felt like it so she decided I was a crappy friend.

SpiderCharlotte · 18/11/2019 17:51

Ex flatmate. Wanted to borrow the pair of trousers that I was already wearing (they were mine!). She never spoke to me again. 😂