Monday, June 05, 2006

The Weekend That Friendship Forgot

I had a wonderful Girls Night on Friday. I met up with T & L (The Teachers). They were the first friends I made when I moved to Columbia. We don't see a lot of each other because they live on the other side of town and they have hubbies and babies. But I'm crazy about them.

I brought my roommate K with me. The four of us were going to eat dinner and then go see The Break-Up. If you have been planning to see this movie and like happy endings, I would recommend that you save your money. It is basically a movie about a couple fighting. To quote Roper, "It's like being on the double date from hell." All they do is fight, and it is depressing and a real bummer. It will just remind you of all your past breakups.

But I digress.

So K and I meet up with everyone. Well, I had forgotten that L has recently grown a second half, much like the School Nurse in South Park. No, I am not referring to her super sweet husband. And no, she's not pregnant. But she does, indeed, have a second half. It's her neighbor, The Frigid Snoot. Frigid Snoot is permanently velcroed to L's hip. About a year and a half ago, Frigid Snoot became friends with L. What began as just another friendship between two adult women has turned into the biggest, most obsessive Girl Crush I've ever seen.
They even refer to each other as "my wife". Normally, I would not even notice this as I'm not a jealous friend. (My friend philosophy is The More the Merrier).

But Frigid Snoot is really mean and rude to L's other friends. And we've all noticed it independently. Then we compare notes in the ladies' room. (Even K, who was meeting all of these girls for the first time picked up on Frigid's attitude, without any heads up from me.) Frigid Snoot ignores us until she is forced to talk to us and even then she won't make eye contact or participate much in the conversation. She only talks to L. She has never said anything nice to me or T. Frigid Snoot thinks her s--t don't stink and tries to dominate all of L's time. She seems to resent the fact that L has lots of friends outside of her. For some reason, L is oblivious to all of this.

This is why T and I hadn't seen L in almost a year. And I for one, am sick of it. And apparently so is T because she seems really apathetic about remaining friends with L.

Ok, so back to the story. I had only met Frigid Snoot once before, about a year ago. So I remembered her name and recognized her face, but couldn't remember why I didn't like her. Then, when she opened her mouth, I remembered why.

I asked her where she worked, and it turns out she is an assistant to Dr. Nazi. So I half-jokingly quipped, "Oh! Your boss is Dr. Nazi! I hate your boss!"

Yes, I realize this would put some people on the defensive. But I didn't mean any harm. I figured everyone must hate her. She is evil, after all.

So Frigid Snoot asks why, and I tell her about my very painful mole removal. Frigid completely denied that Dr. Nazi would ever do such a thing without novocaine. Since I was the actual patient in this particular mole extraction, I felt that I was somewhat of an expert about what went on in that exam room that day. We argued back and forth until I just dropped it, disgusted at the lengths to which Frigid Snoot would go just to make me look bad. Whatever.

So she was just a peach to have around at dinner. I took particular delight in telling her that I have a wonderful boyfriend of four months while she has been single well over a year. Maybe if she would break free from L for a few minutes and sweeten up long enough to get a guy to buy her a drink she might meet someone!

Repo thinks I'm jealous. I am. To an extent. I just don't understand why Frigid Snoot is on a mission to prevent L from having any other friends. Can't we all just get along?

But I am not only a victim of bad friendship this past weekend. Oh no. You see, I am just as guilty of being a bad friend as Frigid Snoot. Before you think that this blog is all one-sided and pro-VB (what? no! never!), let me tell you about my most recent screw-up.

Remember the wedding I went to? Where Blonde got drunk? And we took pictures of her? If not, read about it here. Anyway, as I predicted, she saw the photo.

I had specifically selected that particular photo because it was A) blurry, B) didn't show her face and C) didn't show her barfing. I thought I was being considerate about her anonymity. Her name is not used anywhere on this blog. I don't even say what hospital she works at. No one knows who is in the picture. Except me and Brunette. And it's not like my blog is discussed on the evening news or has been forwarded to her family. It's basically unknown to the general populace.
The thing is, the only people who know her AND read this blog are Brunette (who was there) and Repo, who would never think less of her for it. He likes her. We've all seen her drunk before. I thought it was just a harmless ribbing of my friend. Sort of a "ha ha! Look at my drunk friend! She's so funny!" I was just teasing her.

Well.....she didn't think it was so funny. In fact, she's pissed at me right now. I knew she might be a little embarrassed, and get sick of the teasing from me and Brunette, but I never ever would have done that to piss her off. Definitely not my intention. I guess I misunderstood her sense of humor.
I don't want her to be pissed at me, but at the same time, I fail to see why her panties are all in a bunch. She has definitely been drunk in public before. I'm sure this isn't the only drunk picture ever taken of her. So I really fail to see the big deal. The way I see it, if you don't want people taking pictures of you when you are drunk, then don't get drunk. She was so freaked out about people at the wedding seeing her drunk. But only Brunette and I and a couple of her girlfriends even knew she was drunk! It's not like I'm going to print them out and send them to the Mother of the Bride (who got so drunk at the wedding that she fell off the stage, btw!).

Some of my friends have looked at the photo and said, "I don't get it. What's the big deal? Why would anyone be pissed about that?"

It's not like I submitted it to Girls Gone Wild or something. Is she overreacting, or am I being insensitive?

8 comments:

Kelli said...

Frigid Snoot sounds horrible. I dont understand people that are friend possesive. I am very much the more the merrier kind of friend.

And yeah..blonde is over reacting..

Gypsy said...

Has Frigid Snoot every watched The L Word? Because I'm thinking she should. She should also stop falling in love with straight girls -- that way lies heartache.

I'm sorry about your friend and the drunken picture episode. Considering your sense of humor, and assuming that your friends would have a similar sense of humor, it doesn't seem like it should surprise or upset Blonde... My college roommates once put a picture of me skinny dipping (blurred) on our fridge. Whatev.

Stuck said...

It may not be the first picture anyone has taken of her drunk... but it's probably the first one posted on the Internet, available for billions of people to see.

So, yeah, I can see where she might have a bit of a problem with it. I'd count yourself lucky that Repo didn't react the same way.

The Dummy said...

I don't think she has any right to get pissed off at you for taking that picture. She was drunk, and if she's pissed off at anyone, it should be herself for putting herself in that situation. And like you said, she's unidentifiable!

As for Frigid Snoot, that name you gave her says it all. Even worse that she's affiliated with Dr. Nazi! All this must have something to do with it being 6/6/06.

Virginia Belle said...

anne--yeah, what's up with that? i don't get the whole possessive friend thing. totally foreign to me. thanks for the (unbiased?) opinion. and i know i'm behind on your blog and i'm sorry!

gypsy--ha ha! you crack me up. and yeah, i really was surprised she didn't think it was funny. it really came unexpectedly. i'm not trying to piss off my friends!

stuckey--dammit, why do you have to disagree with everything i do and say? i'm getting sick of you, Mr. Devil's Advocate! :) and you know what, only a handful of people even look at this blog and there isn't even anything to see in the photo anyway! and Repo and i had a big talk and he knows how hard it was for me to tell him. he's not mad. it has actually brought us closer. really, stuckey, i'm starting to wonder why you are friends with me. you never agree with anything i do or say. i must piss you off constantly.:D

TGOV--ok, that story is really funny. it cracked me up!

DD--thanks for the vote of confidence. i really think she is just as mad at herself as she is with me. and you know what--i really really wanted to listen to some Metallica today. i wonder if it was a coincidence that i'm craving satanic music??

Stuck said...

Oh, it's way moe than constantly...


I just enjoy giving you crap.

NML/Natalie said...

Frigid Snoot's name is very apt. Or Tight Cow.

Virginia Belle said...

stuckey-- yeah, i can tell! but i know you are just being devil's advocate.

right...?

i mean, Repo likes you! he told me so! you two are alike in that you both get a kick out of getting me all riled up!

NML--oooh...tight cow. good one. i will save it for the next bitch i encounter!