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AIBU?

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To ask what is the most ridiculous reason someone has fallen out with you?

735 replies

Rainbowb · 04/08/2020 07:13

Need a bit of solidarity right now!

OP posts:
StarlightLady · 05/08/2020 03:46

‘Went to the beach with a (female) friend and went topless. She was so disgusted with me, that was it!

Happynow001 · 05/08/2020 06:05

@TellerTuesday4EVA

BIL and my DH's entire family fell out with me because I told BIL he was a horrible cunt after he threw DH over the bonnet of a car and hit him with a fire extinguisher when he said he didn't want to drive him to work as he had a migraine. Apparently I took it too far 😳
Wow! Load of weirdos! 😳
Kazziek · 05/08/2020 06:35

Lost 1 friend because my DD chose not to go to university.

Lost another because my DF was terminally ill and she didn't want to hear about it.

alwaysthinkingofsleep · 05/08/2020 06:59

My friend was punched because they said they didn't like Wensleydale cheese & cranberries. The puncher was livid.

Kahlua4me · 05/08/2020 07:12

I lost one friend because I asked her when she was going to give back the money I had loaned her so she could to go on holiday.

Lost another after I had a bad car crash because she didn’t want to spend time time worrying about me as she had a new boyfriend.

luzzbightyear · 05/08/2020 07:21

I did a Clare's Law request on the atrociously abusive bloke she was seeing and it transpired he'd done time for assaulting previous partners (note the plural), there was a significant risk to her kids
and she was advised by the police to end the relationship.

Apparently this was all my fault as he was hung like a donkey and she was prepared to overlook the huge risks to her and her kids for the sake of a good shag.

She hasn't spoken to me since despite eventually leaving him and moving onto a new relationship with someone else. I suspect it's because she doesn't want me to 'interfere' with that one which is why she's not talking to me and we've never been introduced.

For context, we're both mid-40s professionals.

Happynow001 · 05/08/2020 08:35

@alwaysthinkingofsleep

My friend was punched because they said they didn't like Wensleydale cheese & cranberries. The puncher was livid.
Can't imagine your friend was that happy about being punched either? BTW I Love Wensleydale with Cranberries!! 😋
Hoppinggreen · 05/08/2020 08:44

I lost a very good (I thought) friend because I didn’t send dd to the same school as her Dd. I didn’t comment negatively on the school at all but apparently the fact that I felt it was good enough for her daughter but not mine meant she didnt want anything to do with me anymore

Littlepond · 05/08/2020 10:08

A friend stopped speaking to me back in March because I said I thought I had Covid. When I told her she said “other illnesses are available you know” (this was all over text as I was isolating) and then told me if I could hold my breath for 10 seconds without coughing it wasn’t Covid. I kept saying obviously I don’t know if it is but I was isolating because it might be. I lost smell and taste which was the biggest indicator. She told me I was being ridiculous. She hasn’t spoken to me since.

I recently had a positive antibody test so it was Covid.

In her defence she has mental health difficulties and I think she felt really panicked at the thought that someone she knew had the virus (I hadn’t seen her for weeks) as it made it more real.

princesshollysmagicalwand · 05/08/2020 10:33

An acquaintance (girlfriend of one of DHs friends but someone who we only saw if we bumped into them in a pub by chance) very publicly and loudly fell out with me because we politely declined an invite to her child's baptism. Sent a card though.

Apparently the reason of me being a bridesmaid for my sister and DH being an usher the day before (wedding Saturday, baptism Sunday) 100 odd miles away wasn't good enough. We were rude and too lazy to make an effort. We should have not drunk, got up early and driven home for an 11am baptism. For a child who, to this day and she is about 6/7 now, I have never met!!

I must admit, I properly laughed in her face and told her to do one. I couldn't even bring myself to be polite or mature after the little display she put on Hmm

PotatoBasher · 05/08/2020 11:11

My first one was aged 11, when my best friend of 4 years, was told I was not suitable friend material by her mother. The reason? My parents were getting divorced, and as a Christian, her mother found this abhorrent (oh the irony)

Another- a friend who was a real party animal, and - I recognised- a user of people- dumped me by letter when my 2 year work visa to Australia was extended by a year. She wrote to me at work, rather than to my home address. Pat or Kate- whatever she wanted to be called- was a bloody psycho . I never missed her!

withadivinebeatlesbaseline · 05/08/2020 11:23

My school friend of 14+ years fell out with me, blocked me from all social media and sent me a long unpleasant email because...I didn’t formally invite her to my (Low key) 30Th birthday. Everyone else had been invited by text but this wasn’t good enough.
I should have been warned as she fell out (but made up) with another B because B was due to fly to Australia and visit her but had severe d and v so couldn’t. And another friend C because C’s husband didn’t greet her enthusiastically enough when she went round. As the four of us were a very close group I guess it was my turn!
The 3 of us have all been blocked and not heard from her for 7 years now.

Happynow001 · 05/08/2020 11:55

The 3 of us have all been blocked and not heard from her for 7 years now.
Result!

Candyflosscookie · 05/08/2020 12:05

Because I lost weight.

It wasn't a massive change either, not like I went rapidly from obese to supermodel. I was a mid 30s, couple of years post pregnancy size 16, yes overweight but dressed fairly well and carried it ok cause of my height. I did a year of low carbing and slowly went down to around a size 12. Very few people even noticed or commented as I wasn't a "diet bore", still went for meals and drinks, and it was a very gradual change. No biggie right?

Apparently I thought I was "better than her now", just wanted to "show her up" and was "so up myself". She was a size 14 and was absolutely furious I had "gone past her size" apparently according to a mutual friend.

Oh well. The weight wasn't the only useless flab I lost. GrinGrinGrin

EnjoyingTheSilence · 05/08/2020 16:00

Parents took me out of school for a term time holiday when I was about 13/14. Came back from the holiday and no one spoke to me. I found a few weeks later that one girl got the whole class to fall out with me as I’d be ‘up myself’ about it all, eventually they realised that she was the knob not me but it was so upsetting at the time

Mookie81 · 05/08/2020 16:18

@Doingtheboxerbeat

The DW of my EXH fell out with me because I said that according to astrology, she was incompatible with her DH Confused. It was at a party and I was talking shit about my childhood obsession with horoscopes and everyone wanted to know who was compatible with who - total drunken bollocks. She was very upset apparently.
You were rude.
RainbowFlowers · 05/08/2020 16:34

She offered to babysit. I asked her to babysit for 1 hour while I got my nails done before holidays.

Thats it!

She didn't want to do it and said I was a princess for wanting someone to look after my child to get my nails done. We haven't spoke since which was years ago.

Kelcat9494 · 05/08/2020 16:37

I renamed the cat they rehomed to me ..

LivingInTheBackOfBeyond · 05/08/2020 16:49

At university, my friend/flatmate - there was a guy that she liked and hoped to get together with at a party. She went to the party but someone else got together with him instead, who turned out to be another friend of mine who she didn’t know. I wasn’t at or even invited to the party and had no idea that my other friend was going but when my flatmate found out that I was friends with her, refused to speak to me for months until I eventually moved out and we never spoke to each other again!

somthinginthewoodshed · 05/08/2020 17:42

I took a breath.....

kimmsutt · 05/08/2020 17:43

An old school friend fell out with me after she tried to sell a $10M villa, in the Maldives, on her fbook profile. I made a polite, I-thought-funny, comment about may not appeal to some of her Fb friends (as the ones I knew, definitely would not be a target audience), but I got a long, sarky dm saying that I didn’t support her or her choices in life, and that some of her new friends could afford it! I’m off to North Berwick for my hols, so maybe it was for the best?!

MollyMinniesMum · 05/08/2020 17:46

My sisters, appeared to fall out with me because I escaped moved to Europe and started enjoying my life, for some reason that offended them 😳

abigailthespiderinthehat · 05/08/2020 17:49

I didn’t tell my friend that I was 5 weeks pregnant. I hadn’t even told my mum yet... She never spoke to me again. For context we’d been friends for 25 years and she already had a baby Confused

FinlandFlag · 05/08/2020 17:49

Because I wanted to book a b&b for staying in a different city when I went to my course instead of driving through at 6am. She said it was a waste of money and hung up on me.

She wasn't coming. We had no joint finances. I have no history of crazy spending behaviour that she was worried about and could perfectly afford it.

She was very controlling in general. We don't speak anymore.

csigeek · 05/08/2020 17:50

My SIL won't talk to me or my mom. She wouldn't allow us to attend my brother and her wedding because of how she feels about us.
I've met her 3 times in over 10 years, once was my grandmothers funeral.
It appears that once, when my brother and her had not long been together they broke up and I said something along the lines of "maybe it's for the best" to my brother. He apparently told her this and now she hates me!
They're currently separated. She's clearly a twat.