No, not those ones. I mean clingy friends.
We've all got them.
One person in particular...if I make the mistake of sending her a text or speaking to her when I run into her on the bus or at the shops, I know - I just know - that she'll start with the phone calls, suggesting we hang out at the weekend, or "Hey, I could come round later if you fancied some company!" Shows how little she knows me, eh? Last minute self-issued invitations? I think not.
And she calls with inconsequential nonsense about her kids, her house, her family, whatever...and I know this sounds cruel but I'm just not interested. This is the same person who makes and breaks arrangements at the last minute, mucks people about and she's 'different with boys' - any viewers of The Fast Show will know what I'm talking about there. Especially if said boys are 'attached'.
But. Here's the most annoying thing. She calls. Four or five times a night. And I ignore her number. And she calls back straight away. Not thinking, "Oh, she must be busy, or asleep, or can't hear the phone. I'll wait an hour or so and try again." But five minutes later, my phone goes.
If I didn't answer five minutes ago, chances are I'm not going to answer now, mmmkay?
As if that's not clingy enough, she's taken to using another SIM card with a new number, thinking I won't recognise it so I'll answer...but I never pick up unless it's someone already in my phone book anyway.
In the past ten minutes I've had two calls. And one voicemail. No text, though, which I can't understand. Why not just text me if it's that important and I'll actually have the message on my phone to read as soon as I become available?
And I don't know how to tell her to just f*** off and leave me alone. We have nothing in common. She bores me. I've had to cope with her dramas too often to give a damn. She's the original girl who cried wolf.
You'd think she'd take the hint by now that I have my own life apart from her and if she has such a wonderful existence with loads of great pals, why doesn't she go hassle them instead of picking on me to be her audience?
Gah.
/rant off.
Tell me about your 'klingons' so I know I'm not the only one.
We've all got them.
One person in particular...if I make the mistake of sending her a text or speaking to her when I run into her on the bus or at the shops, I know - I just know - that she'll start with the phone calls, suggesting we hang out at the weekend, or "Hey, I could come round later if you fancied some company!" Shows how little she knows me, eh? Last minute self-issued invitations? I think not.
And she calls with inconsequential nonsense about her kids, her house, her family, whatever...and I know this sounds cruel but I'm just not interested. This is the same person who makes and breaks arrangements at the last minute, mucks people about and she's 'different with boys' - any viewers of The Fast Show will know what I'm talking about there. Especially if said boys are 'attached'.
But. Here's the most annoying thing. She calls. Four or five times a night. And I ignore her number. And she calls back straight away. Not thinking, "Oh, she must be busy, or asleep, or can't hear the phone. I'll wait an hour or so and try again." But five minutes later, my phone goes.
If I didn't answer five minutes ago, chances are I'm not going to answer now, mmmkay?
As if that's not clingy enough, she's taken to using another SIM card with a new number, thinking I won't recognise it so I'll answer...but I never pick up unless it's someone already in my phone book anyway.
In the past ten minutes I've had two calls. And one voicemail. No text, though, which I can't understand. Why not just text me if it's that important and I'll actually have the message on my phone to read as soon as I become available?
And I don't know how to tell her to just f*** off and leave me alone. We have nothing in common. She bores me. I've had to cope with her dramas too often to give a damn. She's the original girl who cried wolf.
You'd think she'd take the hint by now that I have my own life apart from her and if she has such a wonderful existence with loads of great pals, why doesn't she go hassle them instead of picking on me to be her audience?
Gah.
/rant off.
Tell me about your 'klingons' so I know I'm not the only one.
