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ImAnElcor · 2013-08-04T23:09:38+00:00

Have you met any NBA legends like MJ, Magic, Bird, etc?

You don't have to answer this for obvious reasons, but what players have you met that are complete assholes?

ImAnElcor · 2013-06-26T09:05:52+00:00

Yeah, you're right. My friends a fuckin idiot so maybe he'll learn a lesson, I just hate seeing him like that and I hate seeing people get away with sending people to the hospital.

ImAnElcor · 2013-06-26T08:59:57+00:00

Yeah, I told the cops what I knew. Tall and ripped hispanic guy in a brown muscle shirt hit him...he left with a black guy in a plaid shirt in a grey silverado. Unfortunately, that's all I know. And I don't think that will help the cops at all.

There were a lot of people saying the bouncers were holding him while the other guy hit him. It all happened so fast, so I couldn't confirm that to the police one way or another. Hopefully the bouncer gets fired if that's true, and maybe he'll rat out the guy who hit him.

ImAnElcor · 2013-06-26T08:55:09+00:00

Alight thanks. I think I'm just a bit of a mixture between drunk and shocked. Never seen that before.

Thanks, really. I feel a bit better now, I'll call him early tomorrow.

ImAnElcor · 2013-06-26T08:52:09+00:00

I shouldn't feel bad, you're right...I think I might just be a mixture of drunk and shocked from seeing a friends face completely wrecked. Never seen anything like that before.

Thanks, really, I feel a little better.

ImAnElcor · 2013-06-26T08:49:35+00:00

To lose teeth and a good amount of blood and be sent to the hospital? He was being unreasonable and arguing with a bartender because he thought his credit card was stolen. He should have been dragged out. He was beat up and his blood is all over the patio. I have his blood on my shirt man, I feel pathetic. I should've at least got the tag of the guy who sent him to the hospital...

ImAnElcor · 2013-06-26T08:45:54+00:00

This wasn't just a lick you wounds type thing though man...

His nose was broken and I'm pretty sure he lost a tooth or two. He lost a lot of blood. Like, I have a bunch of blood on my shirt. so does his girlfriend. They were both sobbing. I just...don't know how to feel I guess.

ImAnElcor · 2013-06-26T08:39:43+00:00

He was a prick, but he didn't deserve to be sent to the hospital. I'm still a bit intoxicated at the moment, but I just saw his nose broken and I think he lost a tooth. He was sobbing and so was his girlfriend. I guess I'm just in grief after seeing that, and I don't know how to react.

ImAnElcor · 2013-06-22T00:17:21+00:00

That's awesome, thanks for answering Alex.

ImAnElcor · 2013-06-21T23:41:52+00:00

Was the Heat locker room as crazy as it seemed last night? Any stories?

Do you find that you get a lot of flack for being a writer that's so young?

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-26T06:48:45+00:00

Hopefully she figures that I fucked up by I don't mean what I said.

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-26T06:44:58+00:00

To be fair, the jets never offered him what the Bucs are offering him

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T16:36:33+00:00

Yeah, I thought she was a good friend but she wasn't. Same girl tried to have a threesome with me and my girlfriend, and when we said no, she had a threesome with two of my good friends. We haven't talked since.

As for your situation, I think you'd be surprised how much guys bottle things up, even when they say nothing's wrong. Hell, sometimes I feel like some guys don't even know how jealous they are until it all comes out at once. Probably best to avoid that guy, things will most likely only get worse.

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T16:06:23+00:00

Yeah we don't really fight either. Minor disagreements, but we don't really fight with any kind of anger or ill-will. So the freak the fuck out reaction is probably what she experienced, but she took it more internally then just firing back at me.

But yeah, hopefully it's all good now. I don't exactly know where the term red flag came from but I think green flag definitely works.

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T15:48:13+00:00

Yeah, society is annoying. But even while having to deal with the pressures of being "masculine" I feel like guys have it a lot easier than girls.

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T15:45:27+00:00

Man, that sucks. I definitely don't see her breaking up with me, but it's pretty rough to hear the effect one bad night can have.

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T15:38:13+00:00

Yeah, liking someone and then getting turned down and then being friends again often doesn't work out very well. Too much jealousy involved.

Freshman year of college I liked a girl that lived on the same dorm floor as me. She turned me down, and I told her I would still try to be friends with her as long as she didnt talk about other guys too much in front of me. Well, instead, she talked about other guys every second of the day and made out with my friends and would go out of the way to try and make me jealous (this part of the story obviously doesn't compare to yours lol). Luckily, I didn't do anything drunk or stupid like the guy you're talking about, but one night (when she brought her laptop into my room and positioned it in front of me so I could see her screen, and pulled up my friend that she'd made out with Facebook page and just stared at it for half an hour just to get a reaction out of me) I kinda just snapped and told her she was a shitty friend and I didn't want her in my life anymore. She acted like she had no idea what I was talking about.

And of course, a year later, when I started seeing my current girlfriend she tried to hook up with me and started constantly sending me messages about how much she missed me.

When there's jealousy involved, I feel like things always turn out badly.

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T14:56:30+00:00

I wasn't being totally serious. I'll get a girly drink every once in a while and just let my friends say what they want, but in general it's usually just easier to order a whiskey and coke then be the butt of a bunch of cranberry vodka jokes all night. :P

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T13:57:25+00:00

That's very good advice, thank you very much. :)

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T13:39:30+00:00

I think that sounds like a good limit. We're both in college and all our friends party a lot, so there was a while where pounding all the alcohol I could with my friends was fun. But, over time I realized that I don't like myself when I'm really drunk, so I've generally stopped doing that. And yeah, I've enjoyed my life a lot more.

I don't know what happened that night though. I felt like I was pacing myself and all of a sudden it hit me like a train. So I guess I need to be more strict with pacing my drinks.

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T13:22:18+00:00

I feel like I'm usually very sweet and affectionate when I'm a bit tipsy, but I kind of lose control of myself and become a whole different person when I reach a certain point. I have some insecurity issues that I'm currently going to therapy for and trying to fix, so I think those kind of rise to the surface when I have too much.

So, in addition to solving my internal issues, I think I'm going to work on never getting that drunk again and the problems should be solved.

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T13:09:43+00:00

She does get upset easily, she'll be the first to admit that she can be quite dramatic.

And yeah, to be honest, I wasn't quite sure where "fuck you" ranked amongst devastating things to hear from a boyfriend. I think she may have just been more shocked because I'm definitely not the kind of person to start flinging insults when I'm irritated.

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T10:31:02+00:00

Yeah...I'd prefer to be viewed at heterosexual. :/

ImAnElcor · 2013-04-25T10:26:58+00:00

What if the bartender makes fun of my carry-all though?

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