I have a friend who has been there since kindergarten. And I am a tremendous bastard when it comes to this poor friend of mine.
I'd like to think of myself as someone other than a tremendous bastard in the other relationships and duties of my life. But it seems that I'm locked in the cell of never ending bastardry with this friend. We'll call him Parker. (actually that's his real name but we'll still call him that).
You see we couldn't be more different, Parker and I. He came from a single parent home where his mom would work 3 jobs to support him, and I had a comfy cushy childhood. We did live two houses from each other and that was the basis of our early childhood relationship.
I'm now 23 and so is Parker. We've kept up our relationship through all these years, but as I've mentioned above, I am a total ass. Let me list for you only a few of my deeds of deplorable behaviour.
1. Even though Parker has named me the Godfather of his children I haven't seen them in over a year.
2. When I switched cell phone service I purposely didn't give Parker my number so he'd stop calling me.
3. During this time I got engaged and married and didn't send Parker and invitation. Even though I was the best man at his wedding.
4. I constantly reject his phone calls.
5. It seems that whenever I do call him I need his help lifting something or fixing my car.
6. I just don't enjoy his company.
Now you may say, why on earth is this man still friends with you? I don't honestly know. Parker is very demanding and clingy. Almost to the point of suffocation. This perhaps explains my behaviour. He has no sense of when to leave. Last time when I invited him over to my house for lunch, he stayed for 12 freaking hours!!! He calls at 5:30 in the morning on Saturday. When I took his family out to dinner once, the waiter asked Parker to leave, his children were destroying the restaurant. So there are reasons. But nevertheless, this catharsis helps my scathing conscious.
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3 comments:
I think you did a great job explaing Parker. It kind of made me dislike him too! I loved the list that you put in the blog. It made the reading interesting. However, it was a bit wordy. Try not using the word bastard so much, but don't cut it out all together, because I like the way you emphasize it.
I would lay more background information regarding how you met Parker, why you became friends, and where you see your future with Parker. This is a humorous entry, yet I might suggest/show conclusive reasoning behind your "bastardly ways". This is something that I was entertained enough to read more, and you could expand upon this blog. Nice job.
Whether you meant to be funny or not, I found it very funny. It was easy to follow and everything made sense on format. To me though it seemed you were putting too much blame on yourself. I would like more justification for why you would not call him back etc...The paragraph summed it up at the end but not enough I guess. What else did this guy do? The writing was overall good just too one sided.
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