So many of my friends are getting on my nerves right now and I am about to lose it!!
- friend A got me and BF tickets to the Atlanta symphony for xmas. All he did was hand us a printed receipt saying he bought them online as part of a groupon deal. He said he didn't have the date yet, but would have it soon. Well, we have been asking for the date for months and we finally got it yesterday. It is the Thursday before our anniversary at the end of April. I already got that Monday off, and there's no way I will be able to get Friday or Thursday off, so we said we aren't able to go. Now he is mad at us because he has to find other people to give the tickets to. I understand his frustration to a point, but it's not like we asked to be given a gift at all- let alone one that requires us to drive 5-6 hours away and take off days from work AND pay for a hotel/food for a weekend.
- friend B broke it off with a mutual friend of me and BF's last month and at first I was really happy for her because he didn't treat her very well- he had no job, no car, and when she stuck her neck out at her office to get him a job, he got fired from it within three weeks. Anyway, when they first broke up I reached out to her almost every day to see how she was doing/make plans, and she always either ignored me or bailed on our plans. She's gotten flakier and flakier. Last night she texted me while BF and I were at a movie asking if we were going out for karaoke later (our friends usually always get a group together on Sunday nights for it). She texted me at 8:40, but I didn't see it till the movie ended around 10. I replied saying that we weren't going to be there. She replied with a long rant about how I never make time for her and I always bail on her and called me a fake friend. It REALLY irked me. I haven't replied because every time I try to write something out I just get so mad!!!!
- As a whole, our friend group is very loud and very big. Any time we go out, there's usually a group of at least ten, and when someone throws a game night or get together at their house, that number easily triples. I have really bad anxiety in groups and loud environments, so I usually stay home if I feel like the group will be really rowdy. BF is great about it, and I am very open about why I don't go out. Well, Saturday night, a group of our friends went out to a bar and kept tagging me in pictures they were taking. They would caption them as "Ashley- you always miss the fun!" or "Ashley- where ARE you??" or "I guess you don't like us anymore!" Idk if any of you ladies have anxiety, but their pictures and comments make the situation SO MUCH WORSE. Like, do they not think I WANT to see my friends and have a good time?! I would love to- but I choose not to because I do not want to have anxiety attacks in public (it has happened multiple times in our group in the past). I don't want to be treated special or like a child, but it would be nice if they could be more accepting or at least polite about it.
/rant.