mortensorchid Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I was inspired to share this story with all. I assure you, this did not happen to me, but a friend of mine who has, let's just say, trouble seeing the forest from the trees ... A few years ago, my friend A went to Las Vegas for a business trip / long weekend. There she met this man B, who was from Denver. Apparently they hit it off quite well, and they were chatting quite a bit on line / phone calls since. He was to come out here to spend New Year's with her. A few days before he gets here, she calls me so upset that she is stuttering. He wasn't coming. Here's what happened, according to him ... B was loading some things into his car that morning, including the only two pairs of pants he owns in the world. He intended to take the pants to be dry cleaned, but, forgot them on the roof of his car. He drove off, loosing the pants. He then told her that he could not afford to buy a new pair of pants and they wouldn't let him on the plane because he had no pants to wear. I had to keep all my composure about this when I heard this story, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I said "So you're telling me that today in Denver, CO, there is someone walking around with no pants on today?!" Yes, this was the case. I said to her "A, you don't believe that's true, do you?" She said she did. I said back to her "A, by the 1% chance that story is true, then he's a loser. By the 99% chance that this story isn't true, then he's a liar. And what do you want with a person like that?" I then found out that she not only believed that story, but she PAID FOR HIS PLANE TICKET! I was horrified! WHAT?!?!? He said he couldn't afford to fly out here to see her either! I reminded her that he seemed to have enough money for a trip to Las Vegas, but he didn't have enough money to fly anyplace else. At this, she became angry at ME because I was telling her like it was! She stopped speaking to me after that. But wait, there's more! A resumed contact with B after he sent her a letter of apology, including a check for her investment in the plane ticket. According to his letter, both his parents were alcoholics and he had trouble with trusting people because of this abusive childhood. (Whether or not the check bounced I never found out, but it is an excellent consideration.) They continued talking, then he said he was coming out to see her as he originally planned. Well, this time he DID come out here - and with pants on, FYI. He was to spend a week here, and, although I am not 100% clear what happened, she ended up calling an outlaw biker friend to throw him out of her house. According to the outlaw biker friend, he got him out of her house, and dropped him off at a hotel twenty miles away. As he isn't from this city, he had no idea what her address was or how to get around. I guess he got back to his hometown somehow, and he tried calling her a few more times afterward. She refuses to take his calls now. *sigh* A true story. I still don't know whether to laugh or cry.
carhill Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I'm impressed that she has an outlaw biker friend. Where do you find one of those? Well, I guess she learned what not to do when in Vegas...
donnamaybe Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 OMG! This is a friend of yours? Wow. I hope she realizes now that it's not a good idea to invite someone you don't REALLY know well to your house. What kind of guy A) only owns two pairs of pants, and B) FORGETS TO PUT ONE OF THEM ON!!? On a similar note, my sister, when she was 18 and in a fairly new job as a secretary, went out one morning to start her car in the northern climes so it could warm up. She thought, "It's unusually cold this morning!" until she came back in and took off her coat and realized she hadn't put her skirt on. Thank goodness she hadn't finished doing her makeup yet and had to come back in!
2sure Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 LOL. Here is one that happened to my H before we met. Meets a woman on line. She is across the country, in Nursing school. He buys her a plane ticket to visit him. Her plane arrives w/o her. He gets paged at the airport. An airline employee tells him she was detained at the last leg of the flight because she was so drunk , they not only wouldnt let her on the plane...but took her to a hospital.
OverThinker Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 we all have our forgetfull moments but Come-on who really only owns two pair of pants. I would say you can laugh about it since no one got hurt but I'll pray for your friend because that could have been alot worse.
Author mortensorchid Posted May 12, 2009 Author Posted May 12, 2009 LOL. Here is one that happened to my H before we met. Meets a woman on line. She is across the country, in Nursing school. He buys her a plane ticket to visit him. Her plane arrives w/o her. He gets paged at the airport. An airline employee tells him she was detained at the last leg of the flight because she was so drunk , they not only wouldnt let her on the plane...but took her to a hospital. OUCH! That's sad. And he narrowly avoided disaster, didn't he? I'd like to say that my friend A has learned her lesson by not inviting strangers to fly cross country to stay in her house like this story. But, she goes out with losers. Fortunately this loser didn't stick around for too long. As for that story about only having two pairs of pants? I don't believe it. I don't think she does anymore, but she made excuses for him. That was years ago, sometimes when I think of Colorado I start laughing and people wonder why. Ha ha ha ...
OverThinker Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 OMG that got added while I was writting. I'll pray for her too
BCCA Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 WOW...just when you think youve heard it all, here comes the 'no pants' excuse! I had one girl call me and cancel a date, say that something horrible happened with her family, and she was in tears. I felt bad, and as I told a buddy of mine what she said, he was rolling his eyes. He finally told me she was full of it, and I laid into him, said he had no idea, and why call people a liar unless youre sure, and blah blah... So me and this buddy go out to a bar later that night, and guess who comes walking in! She litterally saw me and RAN outside and left! lol
fishtaco Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 Sounds like this one chick I went on a few dates with awhile back. After she fell for my no pants excuse, I decided to cut off contact. Actually through spending time with her, I figured out fairly quickly that she makes really odd and really bad decisions like your friend "A". So I stayed away from her. I've heard stories through some mutual acquaintances of some of the crazy crap she's been doing. Glad I was outta there. She's got her "outlaw" friend too.
dreamergrl Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I'm envisioning a man trying to board a plane without pants on.
carhill Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 Yeah, hope he wasn't going commando due to lack of funds
paddington bear Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I know someone who cancelled their 3rd date by saying that he was devastated because his sister died. She pulled back, after the funeral date, sent him a text message saying how she knew things must be hard for him and to contact her when he was ready. No reply from him, and obviously under the circumstances, she didn't want to hassle him. She then bumped into his best friend on the street and was talking about how sad it was that this guy's sister was dead and how was he and so on, and his friend was like 'huh? His sister's not dead, I just saw her yesterday'. Best to keep the lies simple methinks...but then maybe not, the pants being lost thing is highly amusing in its bizarre complexity.
Author mortensorchid Posted May 13, 2009 Author Posted May 13, 2009 I admit, once I was blown off by someone who said that he had to work the weekend he was supposed to come to town to see me. This is when I was in my early twenties, I was still relatively neive at the time and I actually believed that. But then I noticed he seemed to have enough time to do other things rather than see me, and when his friends abandoned him (for reasons I will not get into here), he suddenly got all needy and friendly again. But I still think about the man with no pants in Denver. What is he REALLY doing with his time besides walking around, terrorizing the citizens by not wearing pants on the street?
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