About 20 years ago I was really good friends with a girl named Dawn. We grew apart for a lot of reasons [one being that she thought my boyfriend was "the devil"] but we ran into each other last year. Dawn was always an over-sharer, but even so, I was thrown by the amount of information she immediately provided upon seeing each other for the first time in 20 years:
"I'm a lesbian now! Sex with women is SO much better than with men! I can't wait to tell you all about it! However I've had a restraining order on my ex-girlfriend. I spent a few weeks in the psych ward! And I drink too much! I'm licensed in massage therapy, I can come to your house and give you a massage, just give me a call!"
I decided then and there that I didn't want to rekindle our friendship. Dawn was a freakin' mess, plus I ended up marrying "the devil" and didn't want to hear her shit about that. So, I took her number she handed to me but didn't give her mine.
And here's the peeve: she has since called my parents a few times and babbled to them, and sometimes she's obviously drunk.
My parents, bless their hearts, refuse to give her my phone number and I don't think Dawn has a phone book. She may even live in a van down by the river with access only to a pay phone, I don't know. So they take a message from her and pass it along to me, the most recent being, "Dawn says she wants you to have a happy new year." They say they don't care whether or not she calls them because they're retired and really good at deflecting unwanted phone callers, and that I shouldn't call her back. But I'm thinking I should because I'm really irritated that she keeps calling my parents. I can't do it without being really bitchy, though. Girl needs help but I can't step into this.
Peevers, what would you do?
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