Got one of those really complicated friendships where it's impossible to really explain why you're still friends at all, except that you've already gone through so much BS together? Ok.
I have one of those friend people. She just lost a sibling. It's pretty tragic. She was desperate to get over to see his family for the funeral, and they are out of state.
She also happens to have a birthday this month.
Anyways, very long story short, she and her husband get on ye olde Internet and start begging for donations so she could afford to see her relatives. She collects enough that she will be able to go. (I had considered donating but opted not to when I saw that she was
covered.)
And then I saw her next post.
Looking for somebody to chip in for gas and hotels and trade off driving. Because a week or two after this funeral trip she asked everyone she knows to help pay for, she's still going to Vegas, yo! Birthdays must be celebrated in style, after all. Yes, it's a couple states away.
I am all kinds of pissed at this one. No, I probably won't tell her. Which I guess is another real world warning to the lurkers out there that people can be extremely offended but still not tell you directly that you are being insanely rude.