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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!

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BenjiCat · 04/08/2020 09:50

I eloped. My sister has given me the silent treatment ever since. Does that count?

JudgeRindersMinder · 04/08/2020 09:50

A “mum” friend, who I’d got to know when I was married for the second time, and had kids (this is important) because the guy I’d previously been married to and divorced was someone she’d fancied when younger!! She was an utter psycho

MrsKin90 · 04/08/2020 09:51

I 'fell out' with my longest ever friend who I have known since I was 4 and spent every other weekend with because she text me and I didn't reply for four hours? I suppose because she knew I was friends with someone she didn't like and was busy with them. She deleted me on Facebook and that was that. She's literally not spoken to me since. Saying that maybe she expected me to fight for our friendship but life's too short.

Anon778833 · 04/08/2020 09:54

My (male) friend who I’ve known for 14 years has blocked me and we haven’t even had an argument. He has done stuff like this in the past and nearly always comes back later.

Iwantacookie · 04/08/2020 09:58

Ex friend fell out with me because I wanted to do things with my children on the weekend not stick drugs up my nose. I actually feel sorry for her now. Last I heard shes lost all her children and is living in a hostle Sad

Finkelbraun · 04/08/2020 09:59

Because I went on holiday and didn't invite her.

To be fair, this would be a ridiculous reason in any case. But what makes it particularly great is that I did very specifically invite her and she said no. Her mum and brother were there for this conversation and both of them remember it clearly.

So grateful to have this person out of my life.

MoreListeningLessChatting · 04/08/2020 10:09

Mine's the other way around. I fell out with someone who ran up huge debts and then went bankrupt to avoid paying any of them back.

Others of us at the time were more careful with money and she would spend spend spend. Good hard working people lose jobs because of people like her. No cares at all. Fiddled benefits too.

Move house changed name to maiden name and somehow got a small credit card and started to do the same thing again despite not supposedly being allowed credit for the few short years of bankruptcy.

I didn't want to be around her any more. Anyway that's one from the other way.

Rubychard · 04/08/2020 10:11

Because I didn't want to do yoga anymore.

Batshit

Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese · 04/08/2020 10:15

One of my closest friends fell out with me 15 years ago because I refused to take sides when she fell out with another friend... She still avoids me to this day and we live 3 streets apart

MrsSchadenfreude · 04/08/2020 10:19

Unfriended and blocked on Facebook, also blocked my phone number and wouldn’t respond to emails. Completely out of the blue - we had been really close friends for years. A mutual friend told me that she “didn’t like that I was funnier than her on FB and all of her other friends wanted to know who I was as I seemed fun and interesting, and they were her friends and not mine.”

I think she is a bit fucked up as she has pretty much dumped our entire friendship group now.

tinseltitsandlittlegits · 04/08/2020 10:21

Because my son got a diagnosis of severe autism! If they had just said autism that's different but he would put their children at risk of getting hurt with being severe! He's great with kids and never hurt anyone !
There loss we don't need arseholes in our lives 😍

Todaythiscouldbe · 04/08/2020 10:24

Because her son wasn't in a photo. For clarity it was one photo out of over 100, some kids chose to have friendship group photos and her son wasn't in one, he was in the other 99 though......

JimandWilson · 04/08/2020 10:25

Age 13- I asked on my Christmas list for a particular CD album by an R & B artist. Word got around and person in group who was the only one allowed to like R & B music confronted me 'it's my thing. You don't even like it properly- you have no idea' etc, dismissed me for 6 months, then decided I could be spoken to again so long as I never did anything like that again. (I did- what a rebel I was.....)

RigaBalsam · 04/08/2020 10:26

@RonnieBob

A friend fell out with me because I said how much she looked like her Dad who’d recently died. Literally took huge offence and was outraged I’d said she looked like her Dad 🤷‍♀️
I had this too but he was alive. Had a right go at me. Must have been issues there.
HouchinBawbags · 04/08/2020 10:27

Friend did me an emergency favour and I paid her for it. Gave her fuel money before we set off.

While she was giving me a lift she asked to borrow money for more fuel and she'd give it me back when we got to a cash machine. It was every penny I had that week (break up and emergency accommodation and £25 to last me the next 8 days) and I said okay as long as I got it back at the end of our journey. She knew that it was all I had and how desperate a situation I was in.

You know where this is going.

I asked for it back, she got mad and stormed off. With every single penny of my money. Thing is, she had plenty of money. I know why now.

I spent a week with no heating or hot water and only a bag of potatoes to eat. That was it. She never spoke to me again as if I were in the wrong for needing my money back.

HearingMyOwnVoice · 04/08/2020 10:31

At college there was a big group of girls who all got on really well. One was a shy, quiet girl. All ok for the first few months or so then I started to notice her behaving oddly towards me. It went on for a while but I didn't take a huge amount of notice of it. Just kept on being me (I get on with pretty much everyone)
It escalated massively over a couple of weeks where she started telling the others that I was being mean to her behind their backs. That when they weren't there I was bullying her and then pretending not too. It was bizarre. I just kept on being me. We were in the same classroom one day doing some studying (separately) no one else in there. Then three or four of the group come in looking for us at which point the other girl bursts into tears and starts proclaiming that I've just said the worst thing yet to her and they don't know what she's been going through with me and my bullying.
I got upset and left the room and one of them followed me out to have it out with me. I told her everything including 'evidence' that I couldn't have done x at y time because I wasn't there etc. She was stunned. It trickled back through to the others but some of them struggled to see how this quiet shy girl could be making stuff up and therefore assumed it was true. It was awful.

MsAwesomeDragon · 04/08/2020 10:32

Because I didn't "find God" at the same time as her. So basically, I stayed the same person I'd always been ("living in sin" with one man, having had a child with another man previously), but now she couldn't be friends with me because of my immoral behaviour. Funny thing is, she'd been a bit promiscuous when we met at uni, so her past is way more "immoral" than mine, but it never stopped me being friends with her.

I looked her up on Facebook a few years later and she was sharing posts about gay conversion centres and "pray away the gay" as being a good thing, and we should "love the sinner, hate the sin", etc. So I'm very definitely better off without her and her intolerant views.

Iverunoutofnames · 04/08/2020 10:37

DHs lifelong friend dumped him because he wouldn’t drive 5 hours to see another friend off at the airport for an extended holiday, and then drive home through the night and go to straight to work. Friend who was going didn’t even want him to go.

I had a friend who lost several friends for leaving her useless alcoholic husband. One of them told her she should just ‘put up with it’.

Theusualsuspex · 04/08/2020 10:40

I had a friend fall out with me after I cancelled lunch with her at the last minute because of work. Except she works in the same department as me and could literally see I was dealing with an unexpected and urgent issue. She told me I wasn't being cool. If I'd been a braver sort of person I'd have told her I wasn't trying to be cool, I was trying to be employed.

Whitelisbon · 04/08/2020 10:41

Because I had the cheek to "book" dc5s c-section on the same day as her sons 2nd birthday party. I stole her thunder by all accounts.
She messaged me that night, so in between all the congratulations messages, there was this one full of poison and nastiness, telling me what a bitch I was, and how I couldn't let anyone else have a day of attention just for them, and how dare I, and loads of other shit.
It was really upsetting at the time, but I think its just pathetic now. I'm annoyed that she did that when I was so vulnerable, but it says a lot more about her than me. I blocked her the same day, and shes never spoken to me since!

Lsquiggles · 04/08/2020 10:44

At secondary school my best friend of 10 years fell out with me because I sat next to someone else in class, didn't talk to me for 2 years!

fairydustandpixies · 04/08/2020 10:44

Because ex friend of 20yrs came on to me, I refused to spend the night with her and the next day she text me to say she wanted nothing more to do with me because I was obsessed with sex. I'm a straight female and she always had a different bloke every weekend 🤷‍♀️

IamMaz · 04/08/2020 10:45

A close friend of MINE who used to be a neighbour, decided to support my DH during a problem time in our marriage. Not me!!!

She regularly texted him, inviting HIM to her garden for a glass of wine and sent HIM 'advice' suggesting my DH just lets me stew for a few days etc etc. I saw all the messages and once she knew, she blocked ME!!!

The funny thing is though that before she split from her DH several years earlier, we had been invited to a meal at their house and her DH was trying to get his foot up my skirt!!! He was so drunk, he was almost falling off his dining chair. And my friend commented to him about nearly falling off his chair too!!! I never told her at the time but bloody wished I had now!!!

BoggledBudgie · 04/08/2020 10:50

I said there was a difference between black cabs and black coloured taxis. We argued for weeks.

LegoMaus · 04/08/2020 10:57

I had an extremely close friend for several years whilst I was in a relationship. Broke up with my partner and literally the second I told my friend, he declared that he was in love with me and we could be together now. I was overwhelmed and said no this is too much, I only broke up with my boyfriend last night. So he stomped off and never spoke to me again. He obviously wasn’t a real friend, he didn’t even have the decency to wait awhile. Obviously not real love either because ten seconds after declaring his lifelong devotion he stomped off and never spoke to me again! Very odd.