…of the Straight Dope Message Boards. snickers I want to rant about the overjealous and overprotective boyfriend. God almighty does he piss me off! Now here’s a little story. I’ve been friends with this girl for my entire life. I go over to her house and she’s with her boyfriend. Jokingly I say to her that even though marching band is a beating, it’s giving her a great looking ass (it’s true). She blushes and giggles and jokes back like friends do. She leaves the room and I have a great conversation with her dick-headed boyfriend.
ME-So you two have been dating for like 6 months now, right?
HIM-Yea. And I don’t appreciate you hitting on her.
ME-What?
HIM-Yea dude. Saying she looks good and all. I don’t think you should say that to her.
What the fuck! Her and I have been friends for about 8 years and this shmuck has known her for a year or so. And he has the right to tell me what I should or shouldn’t say to her. God almighty this guy is so insecure it drives me insane! Whew. Now I feel better.
Welcome aboard, idealman, and I admire your courage making your first post in the Pit.
I’ve run into this problem on several occasions. I’m a natural flirt, and I flirt with my girlfriends, be they married, dating, whatever. When confronted by a boyfriend, I simply say that I’ve known the woman for X years, this is how our friendship works, and the boyfriend has nothing to worry about. If they still give me grief, I beat them down.
Well, not really, but I say nasty things about them behind their back.
I think that it was a rude comment to say in front of her boyfriend. Quite obviously you didn’t know him well, and you certainly weren’t friends with him. So who are you to judge the reaction to the comment? How would you feel if he said that about your girlfriend’s ass? You don’t know him well enough to know if he was joking. Nor does he know wether this comment was harmless banter between you and your friend
I probably should have added this in my first post but the guy is actually a friend of mine. Just wanted to clarify that tubagirl. It was sort of like she was at my house while he stopped by and that’s how they met and that’s the rest of the story.
Sounds to me like buddy has an issue with his girlfriend having male friends. I recognize it because my husband is the same way. If I had a dollar for the number of times I have heard " it’s not that I don’t trust you…it’s just I don’t trust him"… I’d be rich!
Only one username per person is allowed here. Thats stated in the registration agreement. If you registered two usernames and you are one person, you need to get in touch with TubaDiva immediately, kay?
Otherwise, all of your screennames and your posting priveledges may go bye-bye…
With the automatic PW fill-in, if you’re using a shared computer it’s pretty easy to accidentally post as someone else by accident. I’ve done it so many times with Brian visiting my place that I’ve made sure that I have to fill in my password every time. That way, I’m in the habit of checking to make sure that I’m not posting as anyone but me.
CJV and idealman could be friends, roommates, or lovers sharing a computer. Eventually, one of them might notice this, and will shoot off an e-mail to one of the mods about it. Or one is a sock of the other. Until I find out which is which, I will refrain from comment.
I agree with DrainBead… I did that very same thing tonight. KelliBelli was at my house and posted…neither one of us changed back to my user name, and I posted under her name.
