So I’m sitting at my desk on the computer since…well, that’s what I do. I’m a Sys Admin. About every six months or so I get into “I wonder what happened to…” mode. I try to find somebody I went to school/played sports/hung out/was involved/worked with. Apparently my friends are all part of some conspiracy against technology. In all this time I have managed to find exactly ONE person I went to high school with…also named Steve. He’s an on-air radio personality in Atlanta.
Anyway, a few months ago I looked up a girl I knew from an AOL chatroom about 12 years ago. She’s on Myspace like everyone else on the planet except people I went to school with. She was from Northern California but going to school in Nevada at the time. We chatted online and talked on the phone once in a while. She ended up moving to Atlanta for a summer job and I guess she thought there was more to our friendship than there was. While she was here we went out onnce and spent the night together. We talked online after that but I never called her or pursued a relationship with her. One of the few “hit it and quit it” encounters I’ve had. It’s not my nature and I felt bad about it but there just wasn’t much we had in common really. This did not sit well with her apparently.
I sent her a message that was part ‘how are you’ and part apology…not that I truly needed to. I had never said anything to her that would’ve indicated I was interested in us becoming a “we”. She responded, said it bothered her for a good while and was glad I apologized. That was the end of that. I didn’t follow up with her. Then last month I sent a happy holidays type message via Myspace again. She never responded to that. Apparently despite my apology she’s still angry. For chrissakes how long are you gonna let something that happened 12 years ago bother you? Get the fuck over it. I know she’s had much worse happen to her than that. I would never let something eat at me that long. Somebody needs a therapist.
Most all relationships/encouters end on a bad note. Are you gonna beat yourself up over all of them? Dang! I’m just sayin…
January 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
well, she probably wasnt holding onto anything but when sheheard from you she was reeminded and decided to sort of ‘get you back’. I think thats more human nature than one person holding on….c’est la vie
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Maybe you should’ve just left her alone after the apology. You’ll never be on her good side and I don’t think you should try to be.