No
Do you blame Randie? When you are climbing over one another just to get out of the living room… your place might be too small.
Do you blame Randie? When you are climbing over one another just to get out of the living room… your place might be too small.
Sometimes you just gotta say it.
You’re nice. Then you try to be nice. Then you say “no”. Unfortunate when it gets to that, but better than saying yes when the results will be long-lasting and negative.
Benjamin Franklin is known for saying, “Guests, like fish, smell after three days”, but if he’d seen Randie’s apartment, that last word would be ‘hours’.
An honest “no” is more kind than than a dishonest “yes.”
Chase… and sometimes you’re BETTER OFF saying it…
Pete… You and Ben Franklin made me laugh…. thinking of opened cans of sardines in Randie’s trash.
Jumping Joy… yup, you said it right.
WAY TO GO, Randie!!! BB is such a passive-aggressive user–not my kind of friend at all. Tell them to look on Couchsurfing or spring for a motel room.
EofO… Goodness! You are serious on B.B.!
Can you tell I’ve known one or two of her?
“they will look up and shout, ‘save us!’ … and I’ll look down and whisper … ‘no’.”
(one of the best lines ever in The Watchmen)
I recently lost a friend thanks to this kind of thing, he wanted to come up and crash with my husband and I for a while and really didn’t understand that we just didn’t have the room.
I tried telling him that the apartment we had to move into after the fire displaced us was really tiny. His only response was that he didn’t take up much space. He kept pushing it while I kept telling him no, then he let slip he was planning on trying to kill his ex wife’s new boyfriend and then run out of state and was hoping that he could hide with us without telling us.
I told him that he had lost his mind, we got into a big fight over what he was claiming was justice and I was point blank telling him would be murder and that my mate and I would have no part in it no matter how long we had been friends, (we had known him since he was 16).
I have never been so grateful to have too small a space in my life, if we had actually had the room to put him up we never would have questioned and might have been unsuspectingly harboring a murderer.
Also, considering that Beebs left Randie with Twinky and had no problem imposing on her, I don’t think Randie owes her anything.
EofO… Oh, Dear… my condolences… ONE B.B. is enough!
Grey… at least it was short and to the point… “No.” That’s it. Final.
Grammy… Yes… this is exactly why I believe in the notion that everything happens for a reason! If you didn’t have that fire… your life would have been much more complicated than it is already! I mean, tragic as the fire was, and inconvenient, it changed the course of your own personal history.
… and if I may say so (boldly) … you are WAY better without “murderer ‘friend’ ” anyhow!!!!!! Toxic people need not be in your life… happier without them.
I couldn’t agree with you more on all of the points. The fire is actually one of the best things to have happened to us even though it’s been really traumatic. It’s been forcing us to change our bad habits and dig ourselves out of the awful rut we let ourselves settle into.
Toxic is a pretty good description as is, that is what ended his relationship with his wife in the first place. He viewed her as a possession instead of a person, his constant need to claim her drove her and his children away.
Even after she left him he still can’t let her go and views her as belonging to him, that’s why he thinks of it as justice if he kills her boyfriend. In his mind she belongs to him and the guy took what belongs to him and deserves to be punished.
Grace has space; she just got rid of her ¨boyfriend¨.