You Have Friends Like This?
I’m sure we aren’t the only ones. We simply can’t be. It’s just not possible. Is it? To have a few of the most annoying friends ever?
Don’t get me wrong they are very nice people and would do anything for us, but they are SO annoying!
We met them about 5 years ago and became close initially because our sons were the same age. I blame my husband because he and this guy worked in the same office. So he brought the WT family in our lives.
When we went out to eat with them the husband was so loud and obnoxious it drew attention from everyone around us. He’d yell something about burning his kid with a cigarette (he was kidding - but it was not funny) and everyone glared. Whenever we invited them over their son would literally tear the house apart. I realize kids do, but they never helped clean it up and that irritated me.
They ended up moving because he got a job as a car salesman (perfect fit) and we figured it was our “out”. Not so lucky. They ended up coming back to visit twice a month and would call every Friday and because we never answered the phone (Thank You God for caller-id) left the same message:
“Hey guys! It’s **** Mac! We’re in for the weekend and want to come over. We’ll try you again later.”
They always shorten their last name to make it either cool or easier to spell. I’m not sure which.
You’d think after months of us ignoring their calls they’d take a hint. Not them. They still hung on.
When they heard about my car accident they quickly sent a gift. A tree. From a nursery. To our house. Here my husband is spending 24/7 at the ICU with me, praying I recover and he has a tree at home to plant somewhere in our yard. It was a “weeping willow” tree ~ get it?
Who in the hell sends a tree? Seriously. Who? The Mac’s that is who!
By now they have had their second child and we figured surely their life would be too busy to keep us in it. But they were persistent. We made contact a couple times a year. Then about 3 months ago they called on a Sunday afternoon. Stupid me answered the phone before I remembered their area code.
They were driving around in our neighborhood on their way to a funeral and were going to stop by. So here we are still in our pj’s and dirty from cleaning in our basement. They come in and chit~chat for a minute and then jokingly ask if they could leave their children at our house while they run down to the funeral.
Thing was they weren’t joking. Without saying yes they were out the door with a promise to return in 30 minutes. Two hours later and with half the house destroyed, they returned. Grabbed the kids and left to get on the road back home.
Can you see why they are annoying?
Last weekend as I was sitting in the Dallas airport I hear this familiar voice and just as I turn around I make eye contact with the Mac’s! Of all the freaking places. There they are. I’m so stunned I don’t know what to say. I rack my brain for our latest excuse for not being around the last time they called or or came into town.
All I can blurt out is to ask if they’ll be in town next weekend for our son’s birthday party. And to make a long story short ~ they were here last night. Their son spent the night and this morning they were back on the road to annoy people in their own town.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I say talk to the FBI and find a way to change every single identity of every member in your family to save yourselves from “MAC!” AHHHHHHHHHH!
Oh my goodness…I know them. I really think I might know them…
Oh my…what a disaster they are! You are just being too nice. You gotta get better with dreaming up excuses on the spot! LOL
Unfortunately, I think we all have annoying friends.
BUT, your Mac family friends sound much more annoying than any friends I’ve ever had. Wow.
I’m humming Lucinda Williams, I Changed the Locks on My Front Door…
Ah! We were talking about this the other day. We have 9,425 sets of friends like this. You almost feel sorry for them because they don’t “get the hint”. Wow.
You are being too nice! (A huge fault of mine.)
And of all trees, weeping willows are the most useless. Our neighbor planted about 5 of them. They don’t give any shade, yet she planted them all over the yard. Stupid!
What insensitive boobs!
I currently have someone calling me every other day asking if I will host an exchange student. I keep telling them that we have a new baby and now is not the right time, but he KEEPS calling. I didn’t want to be rude, but I think I will have to.
Sounds like you are friends with my brother!
I wonder why you don’t tell them you feel you’re not the perfect fit as friends.
Are you afraid to disappoint them, or don’t you want to disappoint yourself for not being perfect?
That they left the children eithout forewarning can be a good item to tell them they are behaving far too familiar and you feel they are crossing your boundaries. “Please don’t even come again.”
You have to…
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I couldn’t live without caller ID to warn me of the crazies!
And, yes, as you can see, I’m still alive. Summer vacation means I have about 30 seconds a day to use the computer without some kid begging to go online, needing a ride, needing a drink, or be too blind to see the clean underwear in their dresser.
Our previous neighbors were somewhat like this, letting their 4 children run crazy around our tiny back patio, barely dressed and always without proper footwear…for running around on fucking bricks!
You have my deepest sympathies.