If it helps, I had a friend just straight up ghost me with no explanation too. I thought we were super close, my kid called her “auntie Beth”, etc. It was my birthday, we had plans, and she just... never showed up. Never answered my calls again. We were both in the same performance troupe and she quit without a word.…

I just wanted to point out the plus side, which is - you seem to recognize you learned some things from this woman about business and work life. In a way, by taking some of her time, you benefitted, even though it was not meant to be a long term friendship. I have a lot of people I think may go on to be good friends,…

She was one of my freshman year roommates. I adored her right off the bat, as did everyone else it seemed. She was effortlessly cool, yet relatable and kind. The type of person you instantly feel comfortable divulging secrets to. We hung out a lot the first few months of college. I felt more connected to her than I…

Respectfully disagree; the friend knows what she did. Laying out how somebody fucked up is good when the ex-friend has their head firmly up their ass, but here, BowlofCherries is probably best off just blocking this woman’s email and moving on. Ex-friend here is just looking to feel like a good person for not writing…

Dude most of the stories here are so childish and silly buy your is a real mystery. 

My former best friend and I met when we were 11. We were best friends for many years. I was the maid of honor at her first wedding and she was my maid of honor. She was in the room when my Daughter was born. I helped her move out in haste when she came out to her family, and they didn’t take it well. We were roommates…

Um, okay. Mine isn’t a fireworks blowout, but just sort of sad. Friend and I met as freshman roommates, and we remained roommates throughout college. Went to each other’s homes for vacations, etc. Really close friends. After college, friend moved overseas for a job, and I stayed for grad school, but we saw each other…

Oh, my God. A few years ago when Husband and I were buying a new couch we ordered one online from Sears. Sears, who literally invented the first iteration of remote shopping, the Sears Catalogue.

This is what I don’t get. The same department stores that are going bankrupt and closing are the ones responsible for driving people away from the stores and online. Service was better, staff was actually knowledgeable about the products, and if they didn’t have something they would order it for you. Now, you’re lucky…

I think it must have been actually pretty realistic training. I grew up in Southeast Texas, and if you’ve ever ween a harvested pine forest it looks a lot like the Ardennes after a few artillery barrages.

Enhance!

Great read. Thank you.

And its sequel —

“character pulls tarp off of something they thought they'd put away for good," be it car, motorcycle, or costume. 

(20 seconds of hyper accelerated keyboard clacking...)

I remember hearing stories of one restaurant (The Grill in Tucson, which will shock nobody) of a friend dropping his pen and looking under the table to see “two cockroaches fighting over a tater tot”. Also a horror story about a false wall panel that I shan’t even relay.

Not my story so I can’t enter it in the Pissing Contest, but a co-worker would NOPE right up whenever we suggested a particular local “country cookin’” restaurant for lunch.

GRRRR truck owners suck! No one should have any reason to buy a large truck!

Jalopnik: TOO MANY TRUCKS. TRUCKS TOO EXPENSIVE.  NO ONE USES TRUCKS FOR TRUCK STUFF