FRIENDS?

Yes, I am back on the facebook thing again only this time it is about people who send a friend request when you don't even know them.  Who does that?  When I get a friend request like that my oddball radar goes off loud and clear and I hear echoes from the robot of Lost In Space "Danger Will Robinson DANGER!" only saying "Danger Fionna....well you get what I 'm talking about unless you're too young to remember that show and have never seen the reruns. Oh wait a minute, surely you saw the Lost in Space movie because as we all know that movie was a major blockbuster. No?  Anyhoo, I got a friend request from someone just recently who I didn't recognize so I checked friends we had in common and emailed one to ask about this person just out of curiosity.  In the email I accused the person of being weird because clearly they would have to be, right?   I then hoped that the person sending the request wasn't related to the person I had just emailed because that would be awkward.  It reminded me of the time we had a couple over for dinner and I told story after story of a complete whacko I know (they are the funniest stories ever but alas, I think the whacko reads my blog so they will remain unwritten).  I didn't mention any names even though there was little to no chance the couple would know her.  Daniel was listening in on the conversation and kept begging to know who it was.  I told him it didn't matter but he wouldn't let it go so I finally just told him who it was (I would never make a good spy for that very reason).  The wife  spoke up and told me that the whacko was her cousin.  At first I though she was joking but no she was not.  Not good but not as bad I think as when Daniel carried on for 20 minutes about how ugly fake brick is on a house as we drove his friend home only to arrive at her home and yes you guessed it, it was covered in fake brick.  I guess  foot in mouth disease is hereditary.

UNFRIENDED

I was chatting with a friend the other day when she revealed to me that she had just recently been "unfriended" on facebook by a close family friend after a bit of drama between the two.  We laughed. I confessed that I too had been a victim of being unfriended three times in the past.  I am not talking about someone paring down their friend list by removing a person they don't know well but rather a purposeful removal of a name because they are mad at the person.

I am not quite sure what the desired result is when someone unfriends me but if they are hoping to hurt my feelings it has an entirely opposite effect.   It usually results in me calling a couple of friends to enjoy a good laugh together about it. I think it's hilarious because it's just so.... so.... juvenile I guess.  I get that the person doesn't want me knowing any of their business etc. but seriously if things are that bad between us, why would I even care to know their business?  Anyway I am a master facebook stalker, I could so totally find pictures, and updates of my unfriend if I wanted.  So if you get mad at me, go ahead and unfriend me, I either won't even notice or I'll have a good laugh.  Either way, I win.

LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG

If you did not read yesterday's post go here first or this will not make much sense at all!


So I get the feeling you are all dying to know what was in that lady's shopping bag and whether or not it was worth the 20 dollars she stole from me....

I opened the bag and there was the weirdest thing I have ever seen.  It was a stick about the length and width of a standard size ruler with an elastic cord on one end.  On the other end of the elastic was a plastic leg, yes leg, and apparently you pull on the leg in much the same way as I am pulling on your leg right now.  *smile*  Happy Belated April Fool's Day. I am wondering if I will have any friends left after this.  I know, I am evil.  I couldn't help myself and I just knew that if I had posted this on April first, too many of you would have guessed what I was up to.  Brittany says I'm lucky that no one can reach out and slap me over the internet.  When I saw how many hits I got on this post yesterday, I started to worry that it might go viral and I would end up on Ellen or something and that would just cause major problems in my family because which kid would I take as my guest without upsetting the others?

I really did believe that this was only going to be read by just a few people and I could feel it spiralling out of control when I realized others were reposting it.  Don't you think that's payback enough.. the worry it caused me...the fear of retribution?

Don't feel bad if you got sucked in, judging from all the comments I got, you're not the only one.

I have a feeling I'm in trouble.

MISREAD

I am sure we have all been guilty of quickly reading something and totally misunderstanding what was written.  This happened to a friend of mine last week when I sent her an email.

I wrote...

"Guess who unfriended me, Nathan, and Brittany?  I am crushed.  I hope I can get over it."
I placed a little smiley face at the end so that she could surmise that I was being sarcastic about the being crushed part.

This was all in reference to a post on her facebook page where someone went totally berserk over an innocent enough comment Brittany had made.

She read....

"Guess who unfriended me? Nathan and Brittany!"

She wrote and asked why and I wrote back to explain that I was sure it was all over the "controversial" post. Of course I thought she was referring to the person that had unfriended us all.
The next thing I know, I receive a very apologetic email from her telling me how sorry she was that I had been caught in the crossfire and that she hoped Brittany and Nathan would come to their senses.  She also hoped that Nathan worked out his jealousy toward his sister.   I realized at once that she had misunderstood what I had written (it is easy enough to understand why) and began to laugh.  I wrote her back immediately to set the record straight.  Nathan and Brittany are still my facebook friends, they love each other dearly, and we are so not crushed that a certain someone unfriended us.

I have since discovered that same certain someone also removed the rest of our family from her facebook friend list.  Really?  Are you that petty?  It just makes us laugh all the more at the perceived insult.