Patrick Bateman
Footballguy
I'm pretty good at it. I don't try to be an #######, but I have a penchant for leaving people on read. How about you?
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Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
SInce I'm more than five years old, no.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Uh, what are we even talking about?
Is this when you poop but you look in the bowl afterwards and there is nothing there?
Is this when you poop but you look in the bowl afterwards and there is nothing there?
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rockaction
Footballguy
This is awesome. Very true. I think the OP is being sarcastic, though.
I ghosted someone once after years. We just couldn't talk without a fight, and I couldn't go through the two hundredth, so I just opted to not inform her we were through. My friend (who became a former friend) told her. This has always been a bit of a blight on my character, but I'm going to claim extenuating circumstances and forgive myself.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
The sad reality is that most friendships have expiration dates, and a great majority of those do not need "we are breaking up as friends" conversations. Sometimes they just end and you both move on.
rockaction
Footballguy
I agree, but this was dating. It had grown ugly, though. I remember getting kicked and stuff. Not good. Just tired of it. No more. No mas.
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
Patrick Swayze?
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
That has nothing to do with ghosting. If there is a next time, end it at once. Entities such as that deserve no consideration.
But ghosting is just juvenile.
rockaction
Footballguy
Yeah, you're right. I was twenty-two. It didn't phase me other than in retrospect. I think it was once, actually, that part. I was just sick of it. I'm forty-six now. I have no real esteem or issues of the ghosting/relationship type right now. Ghosting is often juvenile, stupid, and a power play for the emotionally stunted. Perhaps courtesy is outmoded, but I'd hesitate to think that.
Unfortunately, I also see the arguments for it. This has become the same culture where you can't tell or ask your neighbors to turn the stereo down for fear of escalation. Ghosting is a natural response to fear of physical or emotional reprisal for wanting to sever.
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Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Quint
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
My old friend James was the same way. You'd be out at a bar after hanging out all night, turn around, and James would have already pulled his exit. Didn't just do it to me. Did it to everybody.
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Terminalxylem
Footballguy
I've never done it to a romantic partner, but have with friends. This includes two people in the last six months, one of whom I've known since elementary school. My friend visited after not seeing him or communicating in years, and I realized we'd grown apart for a reason. After determining I'd cut ties with him, I decided I was wasting my time maintaining a friendship with a coworker as well.
Our time on this planet is brief. There's no reason to belabor any relationship that doesn't enrich your life in one way or another.
Our time on this planet is brief. There's no reason to belabor any relationship that doesn't enrich your life in one way or another.
ChiefD
Footballguy
Yep. The Irish Exit is my move too. My wife, on the other hand, is a master of the “keep asking open ended random questions right when we are trying to leave” move.
TheWinz
Footballguy
Only once, and it was just a friend, not a lover. I blame it on her though. Every time we would make plans to visit, she would cancel at the last minute. After about the 6th time, I gave up, and haven't replied to her since. The only thing I feel even a little bad about is I have 2 of her yearbooks. She ain't getting them back.
-OZ-
Footballguy
Agreed.
I find Facebook makes this different than it used to be, at least if you're both somewhat active on the site. You both keep seeing each other's posts, sometimes you even comment on the other's. Mostly because while I don't necessarily need to maintain a relationship with the person, I do generally genuinely want the person to be happy and do well.
D-Day
Footballguy
Is this some kind of trick to get me replying to your post again?
Dammit, it worked.
My GF is the same. She'll tell me we're ready to leave, then it's always another hour more because she ends up starting conversations with everyone as we try to leave. Super annoying.
Terminalxylem
Footballguy
You think that’s bad? My wife forces us to stay until the end of every party, when she’ll offer to help the hosts clean up.
One of the many silver linings to pandemic social restrictions.
Big League Chew
Footballguy
I usually have to kneel down and smell the bowl to determine whether I should flush.
#savetheplanet
Big League Chew
Footballguy
Couldn’t think of the name at the time
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JoeSteeler
Footballguy
Thought this was called phantasm poop?KarmaPolice said:
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Sounds like you need to get so drunk at these parties that she wants to get you out of there ASAP.Terminalxylem said:
bostonfred
Footballguy
This would be an epic way to end your fbg tenure, but dude, don't go. I am your number 3 fan.
-fish-
Footballguy
Zow
Footballguy
Zow
Footballguy
NREC34
Footballguy
I’ve only done it once. I dated this girl between my first and second marriage. She seemed into me but I guess I didn’t feel it. She had also said something about a lawsuit that was going on and she might be getting money out of it. She also had a nice house in a nice neighborhood. Anyway I ghosted her and forgot about her.
I took a second job for awhile and ended up talking to her on the phone a few months ago though she didn’t know it was me. I then looked her up later. First story popped up was she got the biggest judgment in a lawsuit in the history of my county. Man, I was depressed for a couple of days thinking about that.
I took a second job for awhile and ended up talking to her on the phone a few months ago though she didn’t know it was me. I then looked her up later. First story popped up was she got the biggest judgment in a lawsuit in the history of my county. Man, I was depressed for a couple of days thinking about that.
