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Quiky (unusaul)friend Confuses me and I don't know why.😕

48 replies

thosetalesofunexpected · 06/02/2021 16:20

I have a friend,i have known for some time now, i just put my finger on it, why she confuses me so much.
For e.g amongst many examples
I used to before lockdowns started happening, vist a local community centre place,one of the the regular activities held there,I used to enjoy doing,
the community centre were giving away particular items away,so I had a couple of these popular items,to give to a couple of friends as gifts,as i know both my friends are really into this kind of popular hobby,
so i did just that,one of my friend appreciated this,(but my other friend sort of appreciated the gift,but she said to me,that she prefer, wished she had our mutual friend gift instead as she liked the colour a lot better,(does not like the colour gift i gave her.
(It was exactly same kind of gifts for mural friend aswell.

Another example my friend ,a former school friend of mine sadly died a couple of years ago,and my friend said I wonder why she died?was it cause she was doing drugs?
(My school friend moved away a long time ago from the area I live with my friend, and my friend does not know my school friend,(never met her.
(so why on earth did my friend come out with a random insensitive comment such as this?
just cause she was not old dying,i am in my late 4oyrs age.

Another example my friend mentioned a friend of hers wanted to give up her partime job,and my friend asked if I was interested in taking up this job,as it was similar kind of job I was doing already at that time.
(My friend asked me if I was interested in this job?and she said if I was intetested?
My friend said she would have to tell the woman,whom her friend worked for.
My friend said she would first have to tell her my cultural ethnicity,before she took me on.
(I wasn't interested in this job,as I was fed up with the job already had,and fancied a change of job to do.

Another example my friend mentioned why are you not interested in this job,?is it cause they have to check your/people job references then?
What a weird questions to ask/say isn't it !

My friend is one of those types of people, who is ultra sensitive but when it comes to other people,she often puts her foot in it,is outspoken,tells it as it is !
(But people and friends of hers have to walk on egg shells with her.
She gets worked up,very sensitive about almost anything a lot of things.

Another example my friend has aoften ongoing issues with people she works with/and for,to such a extant that she has had discipliary actions against.
Her job,career is extremely responsible role,it has to be as society depends on this.

Another example when we were amongst a small group of friends at at a large Prestige community event,
(local councillors,and local MPs present etc,my friend had one of her outbursts whilst we were talking about a very well known infamous famous person from uk,who has notorious reputation, my friend mentioned her ex Partner ,with whom she had had a very messy,very bad break up.
My friend compared her ex,to this infamous person and said her ex partner should not work with very venerable members of the community too.

Another example is whilst we were waiting at a queue, at a store in our town,someone annoying to her queue jumped before her,
Obviously she was naturally bit pissed off,(but my friend saw this queue jumper person whilst walking around this store, and my friend walked past her and pretended to have a fake coughing fit (as she told me later it was too get back at her, and she knew this would obviously be a very effective way to annoy the queue jumper with the current Covid times we are living at.
Has anybody else had a quiky(unausaul friend as this?
she is very Lucky Nobody at work knows about this side of her personality,what she did.
As she would be having her P45 form in the Post,her line of work,her action at that store,but be far too Controversial thing to do,
My friend can be a loose canon at times
I can not say her line of work as it be far too outing on here.!
And she would really be in the shit with her reputation job/career wise !
She has enough of problematic issues going on already at work.

OP posts:
Ludo19 · 06/02/2021 21:09

@DayBath agreed, I gave up as I couldn't follow it at all.

Redredwhineeee · 06/02/2021 21:11

The way this has been written gives me a headache

slashlover · 06/02/2021 21:29

OP used to do a hobby at the community centre, they were giving something away. OP got a couple for her friends and the friend she preferred the colour of the gift given to the other friend.

OPs former friend died, friend asked if it was because she was doing drugs. Friends had never met.

Friend offered to get OP a job, friend said employer wanted to know OP culture/ethnicity.

Friend has had disciplinaries at work due to not getting along with people. Friend has a responsible job.

Friend compared her expartner to someone bad and said he should not work with vulnerable people.

While waiting in a queue, someone queue jumped. Friend saw the person in the shop and pretended to have a coughing fit while not wearing a mask. Friend has an important job where this would get her in trouble.

Justcallmebebes · 06/02/2021 21:41

Nope me neither. Couldn't make head nor tail of that

SuperCaliFragalistic · 06/02/2021 21:42

Your friend doesn't sound awful. A bit rude and/or possibly autistic.

boredwiththeoldname · 06/02/2021 21:44

@DayBath

If OPs post requires multiple readings to understand then it needs pointing out. I find it shocking that you immediately jumped to her having "educational issues" rather than just clumsy fingers on a small phone screen which was actually my assumption. I think that says a lot more about you than me.
Some posters have more difficulty in expressing themselves than others, and there might be any number of legitimate reasons for that.

Which is why, in some instances, it's probably better to not point it out.

Boardeduplife · 06/02/2021 21:50

I’m totally confused by your post, sorry.

Whatsapppussycat · 06/02/2021 21:57

You sound like you don’t like her. Leave her alone and stop pretending to be her friend.

FedUpAtHomeTroels · 06/02/2021 22:00

Your friend isn't quirly or unusual she's not very nice she is impolite and rude.

BillyIsMyBunny · 06/02/2021 22:02

I’m curious as to what your first language is as your writing style is unusual, I’ve never seen people use parenthesis (brackets) so often in a post but also it’s strange that you don’t close the parenthesis/ brackets but just carry on. Just wondering if that is a feature of grammar in some other languages?

Onjnmoeiejducwoapy · 06/02/2021 22:35

Your friend doesn’t sound quirky, she sounds a bit tactless and like someone who says things the way she thinks. I don’t really get what your question is?

Threeleaper · 06/02/2021 22:50

@slashlover

OP used to do a hobby at the community centre, they were giving something away. OP got a couple for her friends and the friend she preferred the colour of the gift given to the other friend.

OPs former friend died, friend asked if it was because she was doing drugs. Friends had never met.

Friend offered to get OP a job, friend said employer wanted to know OP culture/ethnicity.

Friend has had disciplinaries at work due to not getting along with people. Friend has a responsible job.

Friend compared her expartner to someone bad and said he should not work with vulnerable people.

While waiting in a queue, someone queue jumped. Friend saw the person in the shop and pretended to have a coughing fit while not wearing a mask. Friend has an important job where this would get her in trouble.

Thank you, @slashlover. Though, actually, it seems more rather than less weird when written in clear English.

OP, none of the examples you’ve given of your ‘friend’s behaviour are ‘quirky and unusual’. Some of them are childish — pretending to cough to get back at a queue jumper — some of them are unpleasant, some suggest she’s disturbed (outburst at work event), some of them are completely innocuous (preferring a different colour of the same item), and the fact that you don’t seem able to distinguish between them is the weirdest of all.

Lilyargin · 06/02/2021 22:58

What?

douliket · 06/02/2021 23:43

Sorry I can't follow this at all, too much 'my friend',I've a headache from trying to read that

Summerdayshaze · 06/02/2021 23:52

I have absolutely no idea what you’re on about.

Reinventinganna · 06/02/2021 23:56

I got bored reading that.

Stop being friends with her, it sounds like hard work.

She’s not quirky btw. She’s rude.

thosetalesofunexpected · 07/02/2021 11:45

@thosetalesofunexpected

OP posts:
thosetalesofunexpected · 07/02/2021 11:51

@thosetalesofunexpected

I appreciate the constructive criticism comments on the way i put this thread post together.

I will take on board in the future ,all your advice.

I just wanted to have a general census opinions, on my friendship.
(so thanks to the posters who gave me that kind of feedback.😀

Sorry it was such hard work,reading getting through my post thread. 😕

OP posts:
louderthan · 07/02/2021 11:58

Do you actually like her OP?
Do you enjoy spending time with her?
Do you feel you could ask her for help if you were in trouble?

She sounds quite hard work and very rude and domineering.

CorianderBee · 07/02/2021 14:36

Some of what she's done just sounds like she's a little blunt, not really an issue. The coughing thing is vile and I'd have told her so. Comparing her ex to I assume Jimmy Saville... well, he is her ex.

I wouldn't say she's quirky (which usually means different in a charming way) just rude/blunt.

Also, please try to close brackets ( after using them) as it makes the sentences difficult to follow.

Cornetttttto · 07/02/2021 14:42

Jesus. We all got the gist of her message, did it make some of us feel better to criticise the written language? There for the grace of God we go, my goodness #BeKind is wasted on some posters on this forum.

Threeleaper · 07/02/2021 14:59

There for the grace of God we go, my goodness #BeKind is wasted on some posters on this forum.

I'm sure the OP feels way better to know that he or she has elicited a pitying 'There but for the Grace of God we go' from you. Hmm

Cornetttttto · 08/02/2021 10:28

You have deliberately taken a phrase and twisted it. Stop it.

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