I never though...

Originally Posted by Gumby

that I would lose a friend over a difference in political views. She believes that illegals have a right to be here, I told her they were criminals, she called me a racist, I told her I wasn't even busted out my webster's dictionary unabridged edition and proved that my actions were not racist... now she doesn't want to be my friend anymore. Fucked up no?

So has anyone else ever lost a friend over something so utterly stupid that it boggles your mind? Please explain.

i agree with you. i believe that if tons of people can come over to the US legally, then it's doable. People who sneak across the border and such are rather lazy, and don't want to work for their citizenship. Almost my entire family came here legally, and i know the shit that they had to go through, but in the end, i believe they all thought it was worth it. It's not like they were rich or anything either. I'm lucky in that i was born here, and am automatically a citizen. i don't think ur being a racist. ^^;;

but yea, i've also lost a friend through some pretty stupid crap, and even till this day, i don't know why we stopped talking. (maybe if someone here knows or has any idea, enlighten me please).
i think it began when one of my friend's parents were getting a divorce. Of couse, she was extremely upset about it, and that's completely understandable. We all sympathized with her, and tried cheering her up. Except after four or five months, my friend was still moping every single day, and conversations would go something like this.
me: "so how are you today?"
her: "o...peeeeachy...." (sarcasm there)
me: "o my...what's wrong?"
her: "...stuff..."
me: "what...kind of stuff?"
her: "just....stuff..."
me: "..."

it doesn't really help if i try to help someone and they don't tell me squat. what can i do to help then? but surprisingly, tne problem wasn't her (i'll call her ann), it was another of my friends...i just call her sally for now...and there is another girl in our group, i'll say mandy.

so after 4-5 months of dragging stuff out, mandy and i start getting slightly annoyed with ann's mopeyness becuase it's EVERY SINGLE DAY that we have to deal with her. it was as though we were trying to help a drowning person and thowing them a rope, but instead of taking the rope, the person just said "no, let me drown". anyways, mandy and i find out later that ann has been telling sally EVERYTHING. so we're slightly upset about this because we want to help and ann won't let us. We as sally what she's been telling her, but sally just keeps answering as vaguely as possible...and then sally starts phasing us out and i don't know why. keeping a conversation going with her became near impossible cuz it would go something like this:

me: "how was your weekend?"
sally: "ok"
me: "read any cool books lately that i should borrow later?
sally: "not really"
me: "...well i'm up to this really suspensful part in (insert title of a book)...i think (w/e) is going to happen"
sally: "ok"
me: "...ok...did u play any more of (insert title of game)?"
sally: "not really"

OMGGGGG...i think there's tons of stuff that she could have said in that dialog up there, but i really got the feeling that she just didn't want to talk to me...and i dunno why. so after a while, i just stopped trying because most conversations would go like that.

anyways, this post has gone on way too long...but that's one experience where i lost a friend.

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