I’m having a weird mini-dilemma. Social networking based, obviously. This is 2012, I had better be modern about it.
This morning I awoke to a new facebook friend request. When I clicked it, it was one of the last people I expected to see. It was an old housemate from 2005, who (whom?) I haven’t spoken to since then.
My mini-dilemma is about accepting that request or not. I’m pretty good at ignoring them and leaving people hanging for months and months. I currently have another request from a friend of my sister from about 6 months ago that I haven’t accepted or rejected yet. Mostly because I dislike her and want to annoy her.
Anyway, this guy made our lives a living hell while we were living with him. I’m sure he was totally oblivious to it too. The first two weeks were fine. The three of us living there hung out together, ate pizza, that sort of thing. Then one day he just locked himself away and made no attempt to integrate himself with us. He had what he wanted - someone to split the bills with - so he decided to just fuck off into his own little world with no consideration for us.
After 6 months of living with him we called a “house meeting” of sorts, and said we wanted to move out. He agreed and it happened.
I actually can’t really remember many, or any of the the things that happened involving him now. I haven’t exactly been thinking about him or it very much since then.
So anyway, the friend request:
I want to accept purely to be nosey, to see what he’s doing these days and to see if he’s changed at all, or if he’s still the same selfish prick that he was 6 years ago. I could do the “forgive and forget” thing, but how he made us feel living in that house, I don’t see why I should. I haven’t missed him being in my life in the slightest, and I don’t really see why I should let him back in. I’m fine without him.
A message first might have been nice. You know “How are you?” “Sorry for being a cuntrag.” “I’m still a tool, but at least you don’t have to live with me.”, anything like that. But no, instead I just get a request that prompts me to write a blog post.
Also, 5 mutual friends. We must know about 30 of the same people. The low number of mutual friends says a lot, I think.
