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Ok I know I am, but need to hear WHY I am unreasonable to be pissed off with ex friend who is now sending RELIGIOUS JUNK MAIL DAILY!

18 replies

StarryStarryNight · 01/11/2007 19:36

Ok,
I have not spoken to her for 4 years.

This is the story.
She used to live one street down from me, we had common friends, and were now and then hooking up. She moved to a bigger house outside a small town south of London.

She invited us to come see her new home when my oldest was 3 months old, so we drove down, one and a half hour drive. We were served a cup of tea. Then her dh went to work. She persuaded my husband to drive and look at a second hand dining room furniture nearby she wanted to buy, and as there was not room in our small car for tree adults and two child seats (she had a 15 month old), I had to stay behind. Never mind she said, it is just ten minutes away. They were gone 3 hours, leaving me with a 3 month old in a house that turned out to be totally empty of food and drink, all I had to refresh myself on was tap water. Baby screaming. My pacing the floors, they did not have much furniture yet. She had kept telling my husband, "is is around the corner", and "nearly there". I was really pissed off when they got back and just said, lets get out of here, I am starving. She made no attempt to get in touch.

Then, when my son was 1 year old, (and dont flame me for taking a one year old for a happy meal) I was in B&Q, it was a spontaneous visit and I spent longer than planned, and the nearest place to eat was the nearby McD. Her husband was the manager at that outlet. He came over to chat, his staff took my order standing next to him, a happy meal and a diet coke. When it became clear that I did not have cash, and they did not accept card, he moved away without a word, presumable so as not to offer to lend me the money. I left with a screaming child. (We eat in McDonalds maybe once a month, no big deal).

Here is a couple who invite somebody with a new baby to their home, serve ONE cup of tea, have my husband drive justabout to France and back to look at second hand dining furniture leaving me alone at their house with no food and drink, and are so bloody stingy they cant lend the money for a child to get something to eat!

And now this woman is sending me religious junk mail on a daily basis about "loving thy next" and yadda yadda, and I am reminded about my fury at their behaviour DAILY.

What can I say to politely make her stop?

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CountessDracula · 01/11/2007 19:40

block her email address
then you won't see it

3Ddonut · 01/11/2007 19:41

Mark all the envelopes NOT AT THIS ADDRESS and send them all back. What an awful situation, on her dh's behalf maybe he was too embarassed as he may have thought that you couldn't pay (as I write, I notice this is unlikely, but hey, he's a man!)

pinkteddy · 01/11/2007 19:41

Is it via the post? Can you just mark it 'return to sender'?!!

3Ddonut · 01/11/2007 19:42

Oh, is it email she's bothering you with?

tissy · 01/11/2007 19:42

just send her emails straight to your junk mail box and delete without reading

never go to McDonalds, but if I did, I wouldn't have the cash on me either, I always use my card. at that.

3Ddonut · 01/11/2007 19:42

btw, I don't think YABU. That's a shitty way to treat someone.

fireflyfairy2 · 01/11/2007 19:47

I don't think YABU to want no correspondance with a woman who treated you like nothing more than a stranger.

I think I would ask her to leave me alone if it were me.

StarryStarryNight · 01/11/2007 19:47

The thing is, I want to say something. But what is worse. Silence, she has also been sending E-cards, or a "please stop bothering me I am really not interested." ?

I am just so MAD still. Grrr...

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3Ddonut · 01/11/2007 19:52

If you want my oppinion, and this is not necessarily what is right, silence is strong, and then you can't regret anything that was said, if she ignores silence then say something. Maybe it's a case of let bygones be bygones?

CristinaTheAstonishing · 01/11/2007 19:55

Maybe her DH thought it was against the rules or something to show favouritism to customers. Just a thought.

I'd write to her and say you don't want her religious stuff. I get chain mails from a friend, new agey stuff, i just don't open them. I haven't said anything because she's my friend and i like her.

StarryStarryNight · 01/11/2007 19:59

Maybe Christina, but then as a manager, he would have been able to say to me. I am sorry, I cannot lend you money for your sons meal, it is against regulations, rather than just disappear slowly out of view. I it not like he would have given it to me. It was 1,99 at the time, not a lot of money.
Especially considering how I had given his wife all my pregnancy books for free when she was trying for her second, and our driving test books.

It is just getting to me.

But I agree, I shall say nothing at all, but block her address so it stops bothering me.

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Carmenere · 01/11/2007 19:59

I would email her and say that you don't like religious emails and please stop sending them. If she wants to persue it then you will have to be more direct. But a curt 'stop sending me religious junk' should do it.

StarryStarryNight · 01/11/2007 20:04

Should I include a "please", Carmenere.
Please stop sending me religious junk. Would that be more polite than just Stop sending me religious junk.

I think maybe without the please.

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SueBangBangBangOoo · 01/11/2007 20:05

Could you stop sending me this stuff, please? I don't find it helpful.

StarryStarryNight · 01/11/2007 20:06

oh you are too nice....

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Carmenere · 01/11/2007 20:06

Oh yes say 'please stop sending me religious junk mail'. Politeness is vital.

StarryStarryNight · 01/11/2007 20:08

And that is what I shall say. Thank you.

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Lauriefairycake · 03/11/2007 11:28

I think I would send her the link to this thread

why should you be the one who doesn't get to express her feelings?

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