Friend Stealers!

Guys are such friend stealers! The thing is, they don't even mean to do it, but it happens anyways! Life is going along as usual, you work, study, read, clean, watch tv, hang out with your friends...until one day a friend stops hanging out with you as much. She doesn't call you anymore, doesn't chat with you online, and is missing from all your group hangouts.

Is she sick? Missing? On vacation? Working a lot lately?

Uhhhh...no. Shes got a "guy" (boyfriend, fiancee, etc)

THEN when she does start hanging out with you again all she can talk about is him. It no longer matters what she thinks, or says, or believes, its allll about him!

How fucking annoying!

The worst thing is that usually these guys have nothing really going for them. They don't have jobs, aren't successful, not that good looking, and treat their significant others like crap half the time.

But of course, my friends would rather have ANY guy than be without one.

I wish women could be happy living the single life until they meet the right guy, but alas...that rarely happens.

Cheap Friends

I'm in a little bit of a dilemma.

I have a friend of mine who called me up today and wanted to hang out. She had just finished cleaning out her closet and (me being the book freak I am) wanted to give me some books she no longer wanted. Of course I said yes, but I wasn't sure what to suggest for where to hang out.

You see, the thing is this friend is cheap. Very, very cheap. Just to give you an example, one time she went out with me and a couple of friends to a park. After hanging out we walked the short distance to a nearby Wahoos fish taco place to get dinner. First of all, the prices at Wahoo's are pretty reasonable in my opinion. If memory serves me right I think a burrito (a big, tasty, burrito) was a little over $5.00. Now this burrito was HUGE it was so big that several of us girls ended up sharing plates.

Anyways, despite this she absolutely INSISTED on going to a nearby McDonalds and buying her dinner from there. I wasn't embarresed or anything but just annoyed; she had enough money to buy from Wahoo's! But just because it was a little "fancier" than McDonalds (and er..what isn't?) she insisted on not getting her food from there.

So today she emails me and suggests getting Subway (I'm alright on this, its healthy) and catching a movie...but at the dollar theater (doh!).

The dollar theater....what can I say. If I was on the marketing team for the dollar theater this would be my slogan: "Hey! Do you want AIDS?! Well come one down to the dollar theater!! You might even catch some hepatitis on the side!!"

This place is sooo nasty and dirty and small and cramped that I went there ONCE years ago and vowed to never ever go there again.

So thats my dilemma. How do I suggest that we go somewhere else since I basically gave her the chose to decide where we go? I don't want to have her say to me "Oh I can't afford that place" and basically put here in an embarresing situation. (Just to clarify, its because her family is really big and doesn't have a lot of money....BUT the Wahoo's situation is still ridonkulus)

On the other hand I've considered buying the tickets and telling her I got them for free or at a deal...or I don't know. Gah!