There is too much drama in the neighbourhood of late.<\/p>\n
We met K when R was dating her.\u00a0 He claims they never were dating but for a few weeks they spent a tonne of time together and he brought her to poker games, BBQ’s and firepit gatherings.\u00a0 Whatever went wrong between them isn’t any of my business.<\/p>\n
I do, however, think K is a nice woman and since we’re all grown ups I figured we’d still be able to spend time with her.\u00a0 He’s long since moved on to other women so it shouldn’t be a problem, right?<\/p>\n
That’s what I thought.<\/p>\n
I suppose I should mention at this point that I’ve probably known R about a month longer than K.\u00a0 He’s a new addition to the neighbourhood and prior to a few months ago, I didn’t even know he existed.\u00a0 Drew might have known him for a bit longer since he knows some contractors and construction workers I’ve never met.\u00a0 I’m not sure.\u00a0 Suffice to say, it’s not like we’re bosom buddies who have spent years crawling through fire together.<\/p>\n
We invited K over for a BBQ on Canada day and it was the most tense and unpleasant experience for her – and R wasn’t even in the neighbourhood at the time.\u00a0 What he was doing was texting her continuously throughout the night.\u00a0 For reasons I won’t disclose, she couldn’t turn the phone off.\u00a0 All she could do was avoid picking it up every time it beeped that a new message had come through.\u00a0 Which it seemed to do every 5 minutes.\u00a0 K stayed for the meal and a short while afterwards before heading out to another friends house.<\/p>\n
R gave me the silent treatment for days afterwards.\u00a0 Didn’t even look me in the eye or acknowledge my presence when we were around.\u00a0 *sigh*\u00a0 It was just like being in Jr. High all over again.\u00a0 So and So<\/em> can’t be friends with Ms. X<\/em> cause she’s got cooties.\u00a0 ‘Twas powerful stuff back in the day.<\/p>\n Except now I’m a woman in my 30s and no aquaintence or neighbour is going to dictate who can and can’t visit my home or who I can and can’t spend time with.\u00a0 Drew’s opinion might have sway in the situation but, since he also thinks that K is a nice person, he can’t see the problem with her visiting us either…<\/p>\n Too. Much. Drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is too much drama in the neighbourhood of late. We met K when R was dating her.\u00a0 He claims they never were dating but for a few weeks they spent a tonne of time together and he brought her to poker games, BBQ’s and firepit gatherings.\u00a0 Whatever went wrong between them isn’t any of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frothing-at-the-bit","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}