My "friend" is a total bitch

The BBQ Pit
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Ok, so I head home from the abyss of college to enjoy Easter break with my family and friends. Sounds good, right? Well, it was… until Sunday night when I decided to go to the movies.
Let me just preface this tale with a short description of my friend, Kari-Lynn, which will take place in the form of a rant.
Yes, I know that your Mommy and Daddy love you and care for you. That’s why they bought and paid for your 2000 candy apple red loaded, leather interior Mustang when you graduated from highschool with the impressive GPA of a 2.0. They also pay for your gas. insurance, and everything else your little heart desires. Sure, school isn’t everyone’s thing, but you might have at least put a little effort in. Yes, I’m proud of you for losing 60 pounds over the last two years. Since you didn’t have a JOB or go to SCHOOL I guess that’s all you had time to do. And, no, I didn’t really complain to you when you were making out with your manager afterhours when you did finally get a job. Even though he was 10 years older then you and already had two kids and a girlfriend. I wanted to be there for you because you had been there for me. However, this has all changed after this weekend.

7:36- Kari-Lynn calls me- “wanna go to a movie”… I ponder for several moments, feel a slight moral tug about paying $9.75 to see a movie when I can see it near school for about $4. I decide it’s worth it because I don’t see her very much. My 17 year old sister is also coming. It’ll be nice. I suggest Blade 2 (because Wesley Snipes is one of the hottest men alive and I must admit, vampires can be hot :smiley: We decide to go to the 8:15 show.

8:10- My sister and I arrive at Screwyou Cinemas and pay our precious, hard earned cash. We then continue to wait for 10 more minutes, at which point you come running up. Obligatory hug, and we run into the theatre.

8:22- We watch previews and are enjoying ourselves.

8:30- The movie finally starts. Within the first few scenes it is established that Wesley Snipes is the protagonist. Apparently, Kari-Lynn never saw Blade, because at the point she turns to me and says “I didn’t know that there was a black guy in this movie. Black guys are sooooooo unattractive.” My jaw drops to the floor. I stare at her thinking I must have misunderstood. But, then I realize that I certainly did not. I realize this because she continues for about five more minutes stating why she will hate this move because there is a black guy in it.
At this point, I realize that about one third of the audience is African-American. I feel like I’m going to throw up, I’m so humiliated. My sister, who is sitting on the other side of me, but can quite clearly hear the conversation because my stupid friend is so fucking loud, tells her to shut up.
Then I turn to her to say"We’re leaving."
My sister and I get up and walk out.
My sister wants to get a refund, but I tell her, fuck that, it’s not the theatre’s fault.
I’ve never walked out of a movie before, but I’m really glad I did.
Kari-Lynn, you’re a fucking bitch. You need to grow up, move out of your little upstate NY house, and meet other people. Expand your horizens or shut the fuck up. Not only did you act like an ignorant fool, but you also have no manners. You need to fucking grow up.

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Oh my God!!! There’s a black guy in Blade II??? Thanks for telling me so I can avoid seeing it!!!

:smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :wink:

Your friend is obviously an idiot, and a rude obnoxious idiot at that. You can be an idiot or you can be rude and obnoxious, but not both. Sadly enough racism is still prevailent in certain parts of the country. I just can’t believe she was arrogant enough to blurt crap like that out in a crowded theater.

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I don’t know what made me say that–it was the first thing that popped into my head.

Sorry about your experience. What’s even sadder, however, is that probably none of the Black people in that theatre were very surprised at your friend’s stupidity…

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You’re friend is an idiot, but why on earth would you let one bogtted comment ruin your night and waste all that money? Does not compute Will Robinson…

Sam

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Umm, that’s “bigotted” not whatever I typed initially.

I’m having some typo problems today.

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More like 5 minutes of bigoted and loud comments in an audience where they definitely wouldn’t be taken well. I’d be out of there too.

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I’d like to think that NO audience would take them well, but I guess I’m not that naive…

…at any rate, I agree–better to leave her ass there alone with Wesley and all of those other butt-ugly men.

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Actually, it seems like the only other option is to get into an arguement with the “bogtted” (I like the word:)) bit**. Way-to-go Sparkleegirl, and I’m sorry about your friend.

PC

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Well, I was mad then…
The money didn’t really seem like that much of an issue until I looked at my empty wallet the next morning. But, I couldn’t really stay in the theatre for fear of being associated with her. My night wasn’t really ruined anyways. I stopped at Friendly’s and made my sister treat me to ice cream :smiley: so it was all good.

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And, most importantly, it wasn’t one stupid comment, it was her entire attitude and about 10 minutes of continual babbeling

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Yeah, I was going to say that too but reality smacked me upside the head. Hence the ‘definitely’ modifier.

Leave her, it’s better than arguing fruitlessly and creating even more of a disturbance, or saying nothing and looking like maybe you don’t care or even agree with her. Consider it an expensive lesson in what a dumbass she is.

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Well, I didn’t like Blade II, either. But that had more to do with the fact that the movie sucked. You didn’t miss anything.

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There’s a black guy in Blade II ?

Geez, next time warn us before you post spoilers!

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Well, if it helps, Blade II wasn’t very memorable, and unfortunately, I don’t think Wesley Snipes ever took his shirt off.

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I actually went to see Blade 2 tonight & paid exactly $4.25 mind you…it was definatly worth the $4.25, but not the $14 I spent in reality to see it. It was a little too cheesy for me, although it had great special effects.

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Girlfriend is certainly entitled to her opinion on what she finds attractive, but 10 minutes of racist babbling in a theater that has a a bunch of black people in it is beyond stupid.

Was she totally oblivious or looking to start an argument? Because I have been known to start arguments with strangers who say extremely offensive things while sitting next to me on commuter trains as if black people are not only ugly, but deaf as well.
There’s a Pit thread somewhere around here about it.

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Was there any way for you and your sister to just move and not sit beside this person of questionable humanity, Sparkleegirl? Cause I hate to waste money, and wasting money because of a racist would make me even madder.

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I’ve lived in neighborhoods where saying things like that can cause…bad things …to happen.

At the very least, she was at one time your friend.

Therefore–did she get home OK? Or has she reaped the {admittedly well-deserved} rewards her flapping yap has earned her?

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Yes, she did get home ok (or so I heard). I guess she called my house on Monday after I had left to come back to school and told my sister she couldn’t believe we actually walked out… I guess she thought we were joking. Whatever.
There really was no way that I could have enjoyed watching that movie… I was pretty upset. I guess I took her comments pretty personally because (and she knows this) I’ve been dating an African-American guy for a year and a half. I think if I had stayed anywere in the same building i would have punched her :slight_smile: which would not have been good.