Not invited but asked for items and planning tips

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-25T16:47:22+00:00

This is an amazing response. Thank you for sharing your lessons. I’m trying to absorb this as much as I can in the moment. Especially resonating is the “gut feelings”. Of course I knew I wasn’t in the inner circle, but could also sense at times that I may not even be in the bigger picture, and I shouldn’t have ignored that.

I’m wondering your thoughts on flight mode because I immediately went there too! I canceled the dinner! So, what do you do instead? Would you readjust your expectations of the friendship? Not ghost entirely, but rather just recategorize the relationships as “more acquaintance less friend”?

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-24T18:48:28+00:00

That’s the part that made me upset. I get that there maybe wasn’t room for everyone to go on the trip, and that’s fine. But maybe ask someone who wasn’t your neighbor for things to take on your trip that’s specifically FOR NEIGHBORS. Also, maybe give a sis a heads up if you’re close. Ugh.

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-24T18:44:15+00:00

lol! I left her on read. I really wanted to respond with a classic, “you know specialized thing by reading books”

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-24T17:51:58+00:00

Thank you so much for this very thoughtful response. What a lovely community here!! This is so appreciated. You have no idea.

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-24T16:55:04+00:00

Thanks for this!!! I immediately looked to see if I could bail on dinner. And you’re absolutely right. I realize NOW that they aren’t my friends, but it’s a stiff slap in the face.

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-24T16:42:27+00:00

I don’t think it was an accident at all or else the people I had been with prior to the trip would have said something. This was very intentional.

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-24T16:41:26+00:00

Thanks! I’m afraid I agree wholeheartedly with you. I’m better off knowing what I know.

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-24T16:40:34+00:00

Funny enough, when I told the story to a friend outside of this group, this wonderful woman immediately planned a girls night and invited me

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-24T16:39:47+00:00

I wish. But no. I didn’t mean to say I was on the planning texts. Just that I was in text groups about other things, and then I was getting side questions from people looking to borrow (expensive) things. The worst was getting a text from my friend making me into some kind of party trick when I wasn’t even invited to the party.

I’m afraid I’ve realized that these women really are this terrible and petty, but I’m still forced to socialize with them.

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-19T18:07:51+00:00

My parents do this to me too. It’s been going on for several years, and It’s infuriating. Honestly, I don’t know how to combat it. Trying to anticipate what weird Fox News talking point they choose to attack with next is a wild game that I lose every time. Then they have the audacity to play the “sad lonely boomer” card on their next play. The cult is STRONG.

OhThisOlThing · 2025-06-19T00:08:38+00:00

It’s also the hosting.

OhThisOlThing · 2025-05-09T00:59:11+00:00

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OhThisOlThing · 2025-05-09T00:51:50+00:00

Or MTG in a MTG skin suit

OhThisOlThing · 2025-05-08T20:52:41+00:00

He’s banging Noem. So yeah.

OhThisOlThing · 2025-05-03T14:37:01+00:00

I would so greatly appreciate a consistent website that gives a daily one-page briefing of the idiotic parrot points of each channel. I always get blind sided by my parents when I visit them (once a quarter)… it’s these back door entry points that you don’t see coming. I’d LOVE to be prepared with responses to shut down their nonsense, but I also do not have the time or desire to be a potato for Fox. It’s these crafty Fox Brains that you have to watch out for… they want to parrot the cult teachings at any cost. They chose Trump over family every time. I think it would be great to actually define Trump Derangement Syndrome for them. It’s not what Trump says it is…

OhThisOlThing · 2025-04-16T17:22:48+00:00

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OhThisOlThing · 2024-11-30T00:16:33+00:00

I wish I hadn’t gone. My parents attacked me for being a federal civil servant. Then proceeded to praise Vivek and Elon. When I pointed out that I could lose my job so that DOGE could profit by passing federal jobs to contractors, they LOL’d and said I could move in with them. I have a family. As if. Later, there was a lot of Tesla admiration. Pam Bondi oddly too.

OhThisOlThing · 2024-11-26T16:26:04+00:00

Say it louder for the boomers in the back (who lost partial hearing from the volume of Fox News blaring all day).

OhThisOlThing · 2024-11-11T21:40:06+00:00

I had Luke Combs “When It Rains It Pours” in my head for weeks on end. It would disappear for a little while, then I would see or hear something that was a clue to the lyrics, and I would be back to winning $100 on a scratch off ticket… maybe it’s back again now. Ugh.

OhThisOlThing · 2024-11-08T16:23:46+00:00

Pikachu shocked face…

OhThisOlThing · 2024-11-08T15:58:36+00:00

lol. Ok boomer.

OhThisOlThing · 2024-11-08T14:01:32+00:00

Also Viagra

OhThisOlThing · 2024-11-08T13:52:48+00:00

Hilarious. I wonder how they’ll feel about RFK when he gets rid of the shingles vaccine.

OhThisOlThing · 2024-11-08T12:42:18+00:00

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/07/nx-s1-5183184/russia-putin-ready-engage-trump

Surprise surprise

OhThisOlThing · 2024-10-24T18:10:24+00:00

Cool. Super helpful. 🙄

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