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Whats the most ridiculous reason for someone ignoring you?

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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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TrainspottingWelsh · 18/11/2019 23:01

A pony mad preteen asked if she could keep a pony here and work for its keep. Recognising a child that was clearly trying to convince their parents to let them have one, I gently explained why they couldn't and pointed them down more sensible affordable options to get more involvement. Silently wishing them good luck and with no hard feelings. Her mum's best friend still ignores me now for ruining her dreams

vampirethriller · 19/11/2019 02:36

Because I didn't give her a birthday card, even though she had never told me when her birthday was.
An ex wouldn't talk to me for two days because I wanted to hang a painting over my bed.

MammaToBe2019 · 19/11/2019 02:51

Took a picture of my ex holding our child, he didn't speak to me for a week
Made a comment about an actor i found attractive, resulted in me being ignored for 3 days.
A friend from work changed a tyre for me, my ex ignored me for 4 days as 'he was going to do it' even though I'd been waiting 3 weeks!
Didn't reply to his text straight away so he blanked me for 2 days.
There was many other occasions, just glad i dont have to deal with it anymore.

Sparklfairy · 19/11/2019 02:59

Because I didn't put the mandatory xxxxxxxxxx at the end of one of my texts apparently that made the tone of my message 'blunt' and he took offence

Now an ex.

Eslteacher06 · 19/11/2019 03:02

My dad ignored me for a month moving his newspapers and tidying the living room. Pretty hard when you're the only two people in the house.

He also ignored me because I 'tricked' him into telling me the grand surprise that my mum was coming over for the birth of my eldest, even though my mum had told me she was doing that anyway when I told her I was pregnant. I had asked my mum for dates but denied all knowledge. Apparently me being upset was emotional blackmail.

Tashtegotoo · 19/11/2019 03:17

My (now ex) husband didn't speak to me for 6 weeks (unless we were in public) and I never found out why.

JigsawsAreInPieces · 19/11/2019 03:25

A male work colleague ignored me for weeks because my ex started drinking in a pub that one of my friends occasionally liked to drink in.

I didn't even know where he lived, let alone where he drank! Quite what it had to do with either of them I never understood either.

Still don't know what the issue was. Some people are just... Odd.

PixieDustt · 19/11/2019 03:34

You're not alone OP!
My 'best friend' hasn't bothered with me since pregnancy. She ignored me for months until I reached out all because I changed a date of something we had planned for 2 weeks time to the next day 😂.

She's now very blunt and I've had a lot of time to think about it and she is just a massive bitch. Walks around like she's gods gift (she really isn't). Meant to be meeting up but I actually said to DP I actually want nothing to do with her. There is so many things she done I've just swept under the carpet. I won't meet up with her and she can take her and her fake horse platinum blonde hair off someone else.

FoamingAtTheUterus · 19/11/2019 07:55

Hacked into my dps soccer cards game on the Amiga 1200 and wasted all his money........didn't speak to me for a week.

He also owns a massive pig full of pound coins, I once hid it and left a random note with clues to find it. He had a full on temper tantrum when he couldn't find it and almost moved out 😂😂😂

wineisnecessary · 19/11/2019 07:56

Oh yeah my dad invented a reason to fall out with me apparently my dsil bad mouthed my dbrother years ago but was only told about this recently. Even if it was true which I doubt dsil has better things to do , what's it got to do with me .

TravellingSpoon · 19/11/2019 11:02

Because I went to the theatre with another friend and didnt invite her.

For the record, ignoring friend is a ditherer who if I had included we would never have gone because i could never join her down to anything.

Now I can organise anything without having to wait seven years for her to umm and ahh and then miss out on something.

Lobsterquadrille2 · 19/11/2019 11:15

My father didn't speak to me for six years for being a single parent when my DD's father left me.

MammaToBe2019 · 19/11/2019 11:19

A girl at work i was really really good friends with suddenly stopped talking to me when i started suffering with prenatal depression. Instead of being supportive she just stopped talking to me, that was 7 months ago.

CrackedIphone · 19/11/2019 14:20

I have a teenage student who is not talking to me. This is ongoing. Because I “picked on her” and am mean.

After I told her to turn up on time and to stop swigging from a giant bottle of Vimto in class...

She has scowled ever since and mutters and eye rolls constantly and complained to the head of dept of dept about my awful ways. Because it is just not FAIR.

BenevolentEzza · 19/11/2019 14:53

A group of mums at school are all ignoring me for no reason as far as I can work out. Some of them I was quite friendly with and our kids are friends. One of the mums crossed the road the other day to avoid passing me and my kids on the pavement and crossed back when she was safely past 😂

It's not too bad as I'm not doing the school run too much at the moment due to work commitments but an explanation would be quite nice, I guess.

eternallybaffled · 19/11/2019 15:10

My ex wouldn't speak to me for 3 days because I used prepacked supermarket sausages rather than sausages bought from the butcher. That was probably the most ridiculous of all his silent treatments- and there were many. Wanker.

LookToTreblesGoingTreblesGone · 19/11/2019 15:28

My mother ignored me for the whole of the Christmas period because we were meant to be at my MIL's house for Christmas dinner and my mum's breadmaker hadn't completed its 3 hour cycle.
I explained that we really couldn't be late for Christmas dinner just because we were waiting for her bread to rise.

TheSecretJeven · 19/11/2019 18:34

An ex ignored me for a few days as he said that he'd rung me and someone told him that I'd moved. He had my mobile phone number he could have tried. But he chose to believe a random person whom he had misdialled and to be defensive when I managed to get hold of him, saying that I hadn't told him that I was moving (even though I wasn't/hadn't) and he had been upset. Totally batshit.

Councilworker · 19/11/2019 18:53

A good friend of several years stopped talking to me when we were in our early 20s. He is also friends with my sister and I heard from her he got married about 10 years ago when we were mid 30s. I emailed to wish home congratulations and that I hoped he was well despite the long time without contact. He e-mailed back to say I had been so incredibly rude last time I saw him that he couldn't bring himself to ever any contact with me again. We had been at a gig and I couldn't find him in the queue as he had had his haircut from shoulder length to a buzz cut and I didn't initially recognise him I did find him and we hung out and had what I thought was a fun evening. The next time I texted him he didn't reply and then no response to emails or anything. I had no idea why until 10 years later when he told me it was because I didn't know him well enough to be a friend if I didn't recognize him with short hair.

I still find it baffling now.

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