Hi, I'm probably at the bottom of your I-need-to-call list. I'm the person you call when you're really bored, or you really can't find someone else to do something with. You let my calls go to voicemail, you go out and party, and in your down moments, in those times when you don't have money to go out and drink, that's when you call me.
Sure, you'll come over to my house and eat my food. You don't call me to extend any sort of invitation to me; no, no, this is a one-way street. I reach out to you, and in those times of benevolence, pity, or boredom, you choose to make plans with me.
We spend time in bunches together. Your close friends go away for a few days, so you've got time to kill with me. I'm your B-list friend. I get the part for a short run, and then the budget runs out. An A-list friend becomes available and is instead cast in the role that I had.
I can't put my finger on it. It doesn't seem to be my personality, since you like me just fine when we spend time together. Is it what I like to do? Or don't like to do? I don't want to go out and drink, and therefore I'm made to be the de facto pariah?
You're still here? Don't you have your A-list friend's blog to read instead?
4 comments:
Damn, dude. Move back down here. Sunday afternoon football isn't the same with you. :-)
You will never eat my food again, you ungrateful, self-pitying bastard. oh--let's play T2R this weekend if I don't go out drinking . . . ;)
Wow...it's been three years since this particular blog was created and I tell you it applies to me perfectly!! I was really starting to wonder why I am always the one people call when they are bored and have absolutely NO ONE else to call or hang out with. Whether it's at a long layover at an airport or all the other "cool" friends are unavailable, never fear, the best "B" list friend is here. At first you feel great that "hey, I'm finally hearing from someone who never returns my calls or better yet, never ANSWERS my calls...woo-hoo....lucky me!" and then you realize, oh yeah, they must be bored again. What gives with this? How come people do this to people? I can honestly say all my friends are on the same plan of lie with me. I have no A or B list friends but nevertheless, I always result in the "B" list friend. Ain't life grand?
Wow well said, I feel the exact same way. :(
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