Inspired roughly by a couple of threads recently...
I used to have a friend (used to being the operative) who would come round to my house to smoke. Her reason being that she didn't want her house to smell like smoke and she didn't like smoking in the street as she thought it looked 'common' (her words)
The punchline being that I didn't smoke
That friendship ended when I saw the light and realised that she was using me! She was happy enough to make my house stink and I was too polite (at the time) to ask her not to as I thought I was being a welcoming host.
Has anyone encountered anyone with more brass neck than that?
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TastesLikePanda · 18/04/2013 17:30
Onautopilot1 · 23/01/2024 09:34
Bear in mind I was grieving when this happened.
My late sister passed away after many years of illness. In that time, she, her best friend and I planned her funeral, which was quite fun in a way.
She was a long serving member of a service organization, and held a position on the Committee and was active until the week before she passed.
So she was lying in her open coffin, wearing her favorite shirt and her service ribbons . Her friends were with me when the President asked me if I would take the officer badge off the ribbon, as it "would be a waste" otherwise.
I was quite stunned, but said, hopefully to put her off " do it yourself if a piece of plastic means that much". That's all I could think of.
She took it, my daughter burst into tears and others hustled her out.
The upshot was, at the next meeting a minutes silence was observed, and the vice president wanted it recorded in the minutes the disgust she felt; supported by the whole group. I still can't look at that woman without seething, and wishing I could have thought faster.
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