Ontopic Stupid fight with someone you thought was over "nothing"

the year was 2000. I was in 9th grade, and met a boy that I liked and for some reason like me back. he had dated my friend, but they broke up several months prior, which is like years to a 9th grader. still, I asked my friend if she was ok with it, and she said she was, so I asked him out & we started dating. this was, apparently, the wrong call, and she flipped her absolute shit at me over it. I'm still friends with both of them to this day and we still laugh about it. there was an "anonymous" note she wrote to me, like I wasn't gonna figure out it was the person who was really mad at me who wrote it, and I don't remember the whole thing anymore but key points involved the writer's desire for me to die choking on monkey balls :lol:
 
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I could tell you about a period of time when I met my (now) wife and we were dating and then my cousin got offended because she hadn't yet met her and it had been like three months and I was like my cousin and I hadn't spent time outside of normal family time in like 3 years why is this such a big deal now and then shit just went off the rails and I ended up going to a therapist to deal with the shit stress that came along with this retarded situation... but I won't.

Clearly your cousin wanted you all to herself
#flickthebean
 
OMG I KNEW IT!
I remember you telling me something vague about a family
Member but I had no idea Cousin Tricia Lynn had the hawts for you.
I don’t blame her #rawr
Granted, she was once, about 20 years ago, diagnosed with a learning disability, which as we learn more about mental health, is turning into something that's more along the lines of high functioning autism. Almost to the point that you'd never know until she starts talking, and even then you're like... ok... is she just a little socially awkward?
 
Granted, she was once, about 20 years ago, diagnosed with a learning disability, which as we learn more about mental health, is turning into something that's more along the lines of high functioning autism. Almost to the point that you'd never know until she starts talking, and even then you're like... ok... is she just a little socially awkward?

Whoa whoa whoa whoa.. how is her having a learning disability have anything to do with her crushing on her cousin
I don’t see the correlation
 
Whoa whoa whoa whoa.. how is her having a learning disability have anything to do with her crushing on her cousin
I don’t see the correlation
misdiagnosed as a learning disability at an early age... her actions have been more towards high functioning autism.

There's an entire story about use growing up together, her getting picked on by everyone at school except me, us two spending nearly every weekend playing together when we were kids and me being looked at like a brother by her... fast forward 20 years and her lack of social skills can allow her to perceive a familial relationship as something else. A lack of understanding the difference in relationships. IDK... kind of a super ultra abbreviated version of my thoughts on this wildly complicated topic.
 
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I generally dont do that shit IRL, sometimes people decide that I did something, though.

Got home from the military, moved in with a friend close enough to me that we consider each other brothers, literally known each other since birth.

A coworker of his had moved in with him a couple months before I had, let's call him Pete, I knew him from visits home on leave. Wasn't real impressed by him, but whatever.

A couple months into me living there we went out. Pete had a bit of a man-crush on my brother, so was always going out of his way to try and do shit or impress him, so he volunteered to DD. Brother and I didnt mind, so we got pretty well faced.

Night progresses, Ann, a girl that Pete was trying to hook up with despite her being well out of his league shows up and hangs out, it's a good time.

Pete, Ann, my brother and I are heading out and this girl that my brother and I had both tried to chase after in high school is heading in. We spend a bit talking, I get her number to call her next time we go out, then we get to the truck.

Brother and I are in the back seat fucking with each other about what it meant that I asked for her number considering that she had been a good friend's gf for 4 years or so. Pete tries to interject something and both of us stop and I look at him through the rearview mirror and say something like "why are you interrupting us? Who are you?"

Truck gets quiet, light turns green, we drive off. Stop to get a case of beer on the way home (35 minute drive without the beer stop)

We get home, park, and Pete loses his shit at me. Angry as hell at what I said and he starts getting in my face. I can tell he is talking himself into a fight* so I swig my beer down, toss the empty to the side and swing my noggin straight into his stupid face. Fight pretty much started and ended there.

There was always a simmering anger from him, but he never had the balls to do shit but talk behind my back after.



* never understood this. If you're gonna fight, fight. Why talk yourself into it? All it does it telegraph what you're planning.
 
misdiagnosed as a learning disability at an early age... her actions have been more towards high functioning autism.

There's an entire story about use growing up together, her getting picked on by everyone at school except me, us two spending nearly every weekend playing together when we were kids and me being looked at like a brother by her... fast forward 20 years and her lack of social skills can allow her to perceive a familial relationship as something else. A lack of understanding the difference in relationships. IDK... kind of a super ultra abbreviated version of my thoughts on this wildly complicated topic.
You're an angel. The adults in the situation likely knew she was "a little off" but you saved her from the bullies.
You're one of the good ones, bud.
 
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Come on, someone HAS to have something juicy. Fine.
One of my female co-workers is having an issue with our boss - she accused him of dumping the remainder of the coffee pot down the toilet in the women's bathroom routinely, making a mess, just because it's closer to the break room. I'm not BY the bathroom but I have a direct visual of it down the hall from my desk. HE SO is doing this.:lol: He's written her 3 emails on this issue, bitterly denying his actions and telling her about past issues with other employees regarding the men's bathroom that aren't even here any more.
 
misdiagnosed as a learning disability at an early age... her actions have been more towards high functioning autism.

There's an entire story about use growing up together, her getting picked on by everyone at school except me, us two spending nearly every weekend playing together when we were kids and me being looked at like a brother by her... fast forward 20 years and her lack of social skills can allow her to perceive a familial relationship as something else. A lack of understanding the difference in relationships. IDK... kind of a super ultra abbreviated version of my thoughts on this wildly complicated topic.
Seems like a normal enough mistake for someone on the spectrum to make. Shit, plenty of people who allegedly aren't on the spectrum do that. :)
 
I generally dont do that shit IRL, sometimes people decide that I did something, though.

Got home from the military, moved in with a friend close enough to me that we consider each other brothers, literally known each other since birth.

A coworker of his had moved in with him a couple months before I had, let's call him Pete, I knew him from visits home on leave. Wasn't real impressed by him, but whatever.

A couple months into me living there we went out. Pete had a bit of a man-crush on my brother, so was always going out of his way to try and do shit or impress him, so he volunteered to DD. Brother and I didnt mind, so we got pretty well faced.

Night progresses, Ann, a girl that Pete was trying to hook up with despite her being well out of his league shows up and hangs out, it's a good time.

Pete, Ann, my brother and I are heading out and this girl that my brother and I had both tried to chase after in high school is heading in. We spend a bit talking, I get her number to call her next time we go out, then we get to the truck.

Brother and I are in the back seat fucking with each other about what it meant that I asked for her number considering that she had been a good friend's gf for 4 years or so. Pete tries to interject something and both of us stop and I look at him through the rearview mirror and say something like "why are you interrupting us? Who are you?"

Truck gets quiet, light turns green, we drive off. Stop to get a case of beer on the way home (35 minute drive without the beer stop)

We get home, park, and Pete loses his shit at me. Angry as hell at what I said and he starts getting in my face. I can tell he is talking himself into a fight* so I swig my beer down, toss the empty to the side and swing my noggin straight into his stupid face. Fight pretty much started and ended there.

There was always a simmering anger from him, but he never had the balls to do shit but talk behind my back after.



* never understood this. If you're gonna fight, fight. Why talk yourself into it? All it does it telegraph what you're planning.
Oh, and Ann slept with my brother, not Pete.
 
Come on, someone HAS to have something juicy. Fine.
One of my female co-workers is having an issue with our boss - she accused him of dumping the remainder of the coffee pot down the toilet in the women's bathroom routinely, making a mess, just because it's closer to the break room. I'm not BY the bathroom but I have a direct visual of it down the hall from my desk. HE SO is doing this.:lol: He's written her 3 emails on this issue, bitterly denying his actions and telling her about past issues with other employees regarding the men's bathroom that aren't even here any more.
If you take a pic with your camera phone, I'll email it to her so there is no link to you.