A Required Rant

Trouble makers. 

I don't mean the type of trouble makers that light things on fire, do drugs, or play truant.  I actually think these people are spectacularly self-destructive.  Fascinating!  (That's the Freudian in me)

No, I'm actually referring to that one person you know (friend or otherwise) who goes out of their way to cause trouble...for you!  Now, I'm going to relay my own experiences here.  I imagine 99% of people have come across these kinds of people in their lifetime, maybe not suffering the exact same scenario, and will ultimately read this blog in the same outraged fashion as I'm typing it.  Fast paced and, hopefully, with some tourettes-style swearing.

So, to set the scene, this person I have in mind, I haven't seen them for about over a year.  We politely converse on Facebook, relatively sporadically, to see how the other is doing.  Oh, let me just clarify that this person was my best friend for a few years about 5 years ago.  Things happened (her new friend came between us and then she - my friend - got with the lad I really liked!  Classic teen girl dramas!  However, I'd already met Rob so I was very happy in my relationship...still frickin' annoying though!) and we drifted apart.  No arguments, just a general drifting that meant we did not speak as much, and we definitely didn't see each other as much.

Fast forward three or four years to the present day when the sporadic messaging on Facebook occurs.  All fine and dandy but we don't really know much about each other anymore.  We're civil.  We have polite banter.  She still texts my older brother but it's all fine.  I'm happy, she should be happy.  Right?

WRONG!

I'm happy.  I'm very content with my life.  It's ambling along quite nicely.  She is clearly NOT happy.  As you can imagine, it was quite the surprise when my older brother informed me that she had come to pick him up and parked up the road instead of in front of my house.  Why?, I hear you ask.  Well, exactly.  Why, indeed??  Her reasoning for this was because I might be annoyed that she is parked in front of my house.  WTF?  Seriously??  I haven't seen this person for over a year - WHY would it bother me?  And it just goes to show that she does not have a frickin' clue about me.  She knows nothing of my personality.  Her parking in front of my house does not interfere with my life whatsoever.  She is causing unnecessary drama because her life must be that boring!!  Get a life, you loser, and don't try and cause conflict in mine!!

But, the thing that really peeves me off is the fact that she HAS made me bothered about it.  Not her parking in front of my house - she could come and sit on my bed in my dressing gown or even use my toothbrush for all I care (probably a slight exaggeration) - it's the fact that she is trying to make me out as someone who is bothered about stuff like that...to my brother!  Ridiculous.

The girl in question is, in fact, an evil genius!  A mastermind of coming between me and my brother.  Although he originally stated that she clearly hasn't grown up (he's never spoken such truer words), he later told me that he actually thinks I'm the one out of order.  What the ......???  Seriously?  Grow some frickin' loyalty balls, you hoof.  Blood thicker than water?  Yeah, sure...

A round of applause to the losers who deserve each other.  Next time, just don't include me in your pathetic little games.

If anyone has met someone else like this then surely you can appreciate the frustrations channelling through me while I write this.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

P.S.  This is a rant that has been required for one of my modules at uni.  It's a true account of what I've experienced recently but I would probably not rant about it like this in real life.  I'm not a massive swearer and I very rarely rant.  C'mon, I'm a girl who should have been living in the 60s, anger is not in my nature.