Occasionally I may think about it if I'm annoyed with them, but it's really just a fantasy: because I'd never really do it, I have no power to change them, so I am going to have to put up with their annoying quirks forever. Which is actually a good thing, of course, and I realize that the 95% of the time that I'm not annoyed with them.
Most of the fireable offenses that come to mind are the obvious things that I'm pretty sure I'd be aware of before we became what I consider real friends.
I've dropped acquaintances when it became obvious that they only seemed to call me when they wanted something, or when I realized that I was always the one making the effort.
I dropped someone I'd considered a friend (though not a close friend) when she continually implied that everything bad in her life happened because she didn't have a husband to take care of her. I could have accepted that she lived in a Disney fantasy world in which she didn't have to ever make an effort and everything she wanted would just be handed to her, except for the implied corallaries that 1) Prince Charmings Husbands are handed out randomly; it made no difference that I'd made an effort to go out and meet people while she'd expected one to knock on her door, and 2)the good things in my life happened by luck, not because I made an effort to achieve them.
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Date: 2008-03-04 03:45 am (UTC)Most of the fireable offenses that come to mind are the obvious things that I'm pretty sure I'd be aware of before we became what I consider real friends.
I've dropped acquaintances when it became obvious that they only seemed to call me when they wanted something, or when I realized that I was always the one making the effort.
I dropped someone I'd considered a friend (though not a close friend) when she continually implied that everything bad in her life happened because she didn't have a husband to take care of her. I could have accepted that she lived in a Disney fantasy world in which she didn't have to ever make an effort and everything she wanted would just be handed to her, except for the implied corallaries that 1)
Prince CharmingsHusbands are handed out randomly; it made no difference that I'd made an effort to go out and meet people while she'd expected one to knock on her door, and 2)the good things in my life happened by luck, not because I made an effort to achieve them.