P.C. wrote:[div style="font-style: italic;"]There were even stories of people who weren't even dating who had reserved halls with the hopes that their prince would show up in the meantime and be ready to walk down the aisles by 07,07,07.[/div]
That strikes me as a little...I dunno...creepy. Or something. "I think I'll reserve this hall just in case I decide to get married...". Hmmmm.
I did get an odd wedding invite recently...about 5 years ago a good friend of mine died. I was casual friends with his brother (I'll call him "Tony") and I made several attempts to keep a connection open with him as a friend. I invited Tony and his girlfriend/fiance ("Shelley") over to my place several times as well as suggesting maybe we do some other stuff (meet for dinner, etc). I just wanted to keep in touch with the brother of my friend. Well, they stood me up a couple of times and canceled at the very last minute on all the other occasions, so I finally said "screw it", I obviously wasn't someone Tony wanted to keep in touch with. And that was okay. I was surprised, but it wasn't any huge deal. I never heard from either of them again. Not a phone call, not an email, nothing.
Five years later I get a call from him...
Him: "Hi, it's Tony."
Me (without thinking): "What do you want?" (I swear, it just came out like that.)
Him: "Ummm, well, uh, me and Shelley are getting married and we want you to come to our wedding."
Me: "[span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(128, 255, 0);"]WTF!?[/span]"
I mean, here's this guy who turned down repeated attempts to stay in touch and stood me up a couple of times, pointedly ignored me for five years (!!), and now he wants me to come to his wedding? WHY??? What for? Who is this guy??
Then he tells me that for the last 5 years he and Shelley have been living in a small town a few miles from me. You can walk from here to there. We've undoubtably driven by each other's place 1,000 times. It wasn't like it was tough to reach me- I have 2 phone numbers, 5 email addresses, and I've lived in the same place for the last ten years. But he never so much as called once, not even to say "Hey, how's it going?" Now he wants to come to his wedding?
So, needless to say, I was kinda surprised. Was he that hard up for guests so he invited me? I don't even know him anymore. Why the hell would I want to go to his wedding?
So, the rest of the conversation went something like this:
Me: "Oh, that's nice."
Him: "So, would you like to come?"
Me: "No, I'm busy that day."
Him: "But I haven't told you what day it is."
Me: "It doesn't matter. Whatever day it is, I'm busy."
Sorry doooood, ya ignore me and blow me off for five years while you're living around the corner from me, don't be so *#$! surprised if I don't care what the hell you're doing now. Sheesh.
