I Don't Think that Utility Means What You Think It Means

[bcholmes]

So I went to LiveJournal today, and noticed that someone removed me from their friends list. Always curious about such things, I scanned through the remaining list and figured out that it was someone that I'll call R. (even though his real name is Jason, and his LiveJournal id is the_other_j.

R. happens to be someone that I work with. So when we happened to be in the same room, I asked, "So what are you trying to communicate by removing me from your friends list?"

R. looked flustered and finally said, "You were never intended to be added permanently. While you were off work, I got so many people asking me how you were recovering, I added you to find out how you were doing."

Uh. What? That doesn't make any sense. Okay, I can buy an argument that maybe he wanted to check up on me without ever leaving his friends page, but that seems like an odd process.

Personally, I think he deleted me 'cause I called him passive/aggressive the other day. R. has more odd social rules than any twelve people I know.

Oh, well. I'll just mock him.