icenine0
02-28-2004, 08:49 PM
Have you ever met someone who could absolutely not take a hint? If not, allow me to introduce you.
Our story begins in a moderately-sized junior high cafeteria where a certain greasy long haired guy with a severely grating personality moderately and consistently annoys me from day one. The kid has a fragile ego and not a whole lot of friends, so I tolerate talking with him day by day at lunch. Even so, I wouldn't really call him a "buddy" and I try my damnedest not to do anything with him. Often for weeks, I'll go without giving him a phone call and, nine times out of ten, make up a random excuse not to do something; you know, to severely discourage things.
This doesn't seem to phase him one bit. Meeting up with this guy in the halls and having him as an acquaintance is unavoidable throughout high school. He's okay in small doses, and I don't want to tell the poor guy off, so, again, I just try to restrict our meetings to within classes. He'll give me a call after school once in a while, I'll listen to him blather about his favorite game, and I'll sort of say "Yeah, uh-huh, yeah yeah" as he talks for 30 minutes. My friend's and I give him the cold shoulder on and off, but again, to no effect. He just won't go away.
Alright, fast forward to NOW. Somehow, the sum of all of my efforts to get rid of this guy has made him see me as the irreplaceable super-friend of his lifetime. You see, last I heard from him, he had a girlfriend and some buddies and whatnot, so I figured, "Yeah, now it's time to let things slide. " So, I don't answer his calls, figuring he'll move on. He's continued to phone me... for the past six months. He still dials my number. He's the type of person to whom you could say "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be your friend anymore, I have a highly contagious skin disease." And he'd reply "Let's hug!"
The last message he left was something to the effect of "Tyson, okay... either you're really busy, or you've just totally spaced it, or... you're avoiding me. I need to talk to you. I need closure, I need to move on with my life. It's been six or eight months now."
Yeah, no shit. I know if I contact this guy at all, it's just going to encourage him, unless I just tell him to go to teh fiery pits of hell.
So, should I:
(a) continue to ignore him.
(b) tell him the truth (i.e. "You know, I never really liked you, my buddies found you annoying, you smell like cheese.")
(c) make up some really unlikely-to-work excuse to completely and permanently part on good terms.
<P ID="signature">The more often you fail, the sweeter the taste of success!</p>
Our story begins in a moderately-sized junior high cafeteria where a certain greasy long haired guy with a severely grating personality moderately and consistently annoys me from day one. The kid has a fragile ego and not a whole lot of friends, so I tolerate talking with him day by day at lunch. Even so, I wouldn't really call him a "buddy" and I try my damnedest not to do anything with him. Often for weeks, I'll go without giving him a phone call and, nine times out of ten, make up a random excuse not to do something; you know, to severely discourage things.
This doesn't seem to phase him one bit. Meeting up with this guy in the halls and having him as an acquaintance is unavoidable throughout high school. He's okay in small doses, and I don't want to tell the poor guy off, so, again, I just try to restrict our meetings to within classes. He'll give me a call after school once in a while, I'll listen to him blather about his favorite game, and I'll sort of say "Yeah, uh-huh, yeah yeah" as he talks for 30 minutes. My friend's and I give him the cold shoulder on and off, but again, to no effect. He just won't go away.
Alright, fast forward to NOW. Somehow, the sum of all of my efforts to get rid of this guy has made him see me as the irreplaceable super-friend of his lifetime. You see, last I heard from him, he had a girlfriend and some buddies and whatnot, so I figured, "Yeah, now it's time to let things slide. " So, I don't answer his calls, figuring he'll move on. He's continued to phone me... for the past six months. He still dials my number. He's the type of person to whom you could say "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be your friend anymore, I have a highly contagious skin disease." And he'd reply "Let's hug!"
The last message he left was something to the effect of "Tyson, okay... either you're really busy, or you've just totally spaced it, or... you're avoiding me. I need to talk to you. I need closure, I need to move on with my life. It's been six or eight months now."
Yeah, no shit. I know if I contact this guy at all, it's just going to encourage him, unless I just tell him to go to teh fiery pits of hell.
So, should I:
(a) continue to ignore him.
(b) tell him the truth (i.e. "You know, I never really liked you, my buddies found you annoying, you smell like cheese.")
(c) make up some really unlikely-to-work excuse to completely and permanently part on good terms.
<P ID="signature">The more often you fail, the sweeter the taste of success!</p>