Monday, December 28, 2009

Miguel Freaks Out. Anyone Surprised?

So for Christmas, I got two significant gifts from my family. I received a Blackberry phone from my mom, which I am actually typing on right now and a badass leather jacket from my grandmother. Of course, I quickly added as many contacts as I could so I could begin executing one of the most important functions of phones for me: the mass text. Today, a situation arose which required me to send a mass text, actually several of them. I was with John and Kane, and we were trying to figure out something to do for the evening. Originally, I had set out for Naomi's house from McCook at the invitation of John, who was also going there. However, John found out that Jackson, Aubrey, and Miguel (who he now refers to as "The Triple Entaunte") were there, so he decided that he would stay at his house and invite Kane and me to join him. Eventually, after several frustrating minutes on our Blackberry's web browsers and phones, we found out there was a showing of "Up in the Air" at 7:25 that we wanted to go see. So, I sent out a mass text that invited everyone to the movie. However, I received a text from Mike Wellman which informed me that he was actually having people over gfor a movie at his house. After some deliberation, we decided that this called for a change in plans, so I sent out another mass text inviting people to ask Mike if they could come over, and I added that they should bring food. Soon another wrench was thrown in our plans. David, who apparently watches out for awkward social situations, informed John that the Triple Entaunte had shifted from Naomi's to Mike's. Again, I was required to send a mass text which told people that the movie was still on. This created a lot of confusion, but I sorted through it. The movie was good, and actually at one point during the movie they mentioned how rude it was to break up with someone via text. That statement was a good fit for John because that is one of the reason's he doesn't like Aubrey, because that's how she dumped him. After the movie was finished, to continue me tradition of mass texting, I sent a text which read "Hey, thanks for coming/too bad you didn't come. We had a great time at the movie, let's do it again sometime/ha ha, you missed out, looks like you should listen to me and my texts. :)" which was soon followed by a text which simply read "...Respectively" so that people would understand that they were to pick the statements that applied to them. After the movie, we all went to Perkin's for some Nom. While we were waiting for our meal, I received a phone call from Miguel. As soon as I had the reciever to my ear, he began flipping shit on me, exclaiming that he knew that he had more fun than me and it wasn't right for me to send that text because I had no idea about all the fun they were having. Miguel had taken serious offence. I tried to tell him that my mass text had not been directed as a personal attack against him, and that my mass texts are supposed to taken lightlyn and that last one was definetly a joke. He told me that in order for it to be a joke it had to "have jk or lol" in it. Miguel just wasn't listening to reason, so our conversation ended mid-conflict. Now, Miguel was just looking to pick a fight, because this wasn't about how some text was worded, it was about Jackson and Aubrey. To a large extent, Aubrey has been cut off from our friend group because she was mostly involved with us because of John. I am still personally friends with her, I have known her since middle school, but I felt like hanging out with John tonight. Miguel is a feirce defender of Aubrey, who John will not hang out with, and this conflict has led to Miguel making himself enemies with John. Now, Miguel probably knew that the reason we didn't go to Mike's was because of the conflict between John and the Triple Entaunte. Miguel probably saw my text as a way for me to spiritually lift the group of people who I was hanging out with above the group who he was hang out with. This really makes me angry, because I am a well known supporter of them, in fact, I had been hanging out with then the previous night. And that night I stated to them that it was a shame that this division in our friendship occured. I don't want to be ostracized for hanging out with people. Miguel agreed. It makes me mad that Miguel would get mad at me over some silly text message and think that I was getting into this stupid bullshit friend war. I will hang out with whoever I want to, and my mass texts are not malicious political weapons, especially the ones that end with a smiley face. Miguel called me later that night to apologize for freaking out, and I accepted his apology. I hate arguing with Miguel, it is one of the worst things in the woirld.

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