# To my asshat friend... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 24, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757 "2003-04-24T02:46:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morrigoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Morrigoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrigoon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/1 "2003-04-24T02:46:17Z")
Dear Asshat Friend, I know you can be a bit of a prick sometimes, but rarely can I accuse you of rudeness. Unfortunately, today is one of those times. Yesterday, you offered to have dinner with me tonight, knowing I had to return to your area (1.5 hour drive) this afternoon. My appointment was at 1:30 and finished shortly thereafter. I had planned on spending a little time at Disneyland before heading home, but not more than a couple hours, and was not tied to those plans until I committed to having dinner with you (at your suggestion, you might remember). When my appointment ended early, the thought did occur to me to cancel my plans with you and drive back up to LA before rush hour started - but I didn’t, because we had plans, and you might have turned down other engagements because of them. Now, I’m perfectly okay with your REASONS for flaking. No one understands the strains of an empty wallet like I do, after all. But if you had decided so early on that you could not afford to eat out, would it have been all that much trouble for you to CALL ME and let me know? I find it most offensive that you waited until **I** called **you** to tell me. It would be unreasonable for me to expect you to know that I have other things I could have been doing, however, it’s unkind of you to assume that I don’t. As a matter of fact, I skipped investing club to have dinner with you. I don’t mind skipping meetings to have dinner with a good friend, but I do mind skipping meetings when I DON’T have dinner with a friend. And since you waited until I called rather than dragging that tiny penis of yours over to a phone to call me earlier, I got home just in time to have exactly missed the entire meeting. Thanks asshole. :wally: ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/2 "2003-04-24T03:24:15Z")
So you had to skip your _investment club_ meeting to have dinner with a friend who didn’t show because _he couldn’t afford it_ after you casually spent a couple hours at _Disneyland_. Pardon me while I wipe the tear from my eye. True it was rude, but hardly worth a rant (and a lame one at that). If your buddy is so damn poor treat him for once. ---
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/3 "2003-04-24T03:25:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Morrigoon \* > \*\*And since you waited until I called rather than dragging that tiny penis of yours \*\* That’s funny, I got an e-mail today that could solve that particular problem for him. ---
**Author:** ![Morrigoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Morrigoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrigoon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/4 "2003-04-24T03:57:03Z")
flight: I’m a student. I’m FREAKING poor! I go to investment club meetings to learn about investing so that in the future I will not be FREAKING poor. I’m so broke that said friend is more likely to have to pay for me than the other way around, so please, cry me a damn river. I don’t use my current lack of funds as an excuse not to receive a financial education. Also note that HE suggested having dinner tonight, not ME. I don’t have a problem with his being broke. I have a problem with him waiting until **I called HIM** before he cancelled dinner. His telling me he intended to stay home this evening did not include anything remotely resembling an invitation to drive the 1/2 hour back down to his house, which I would gladly have done to accommodate, being pretty damn short of cash myself. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/5 "2003-04-24T04:23:20Z")
Investment clubs are for people with too much free time. Go buy yourself an index fund instead. Then, many years down the road, use the returns to take all your friends out to dinner and tell them what big assholes they are. (Over some really expensive wine, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Morrigoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Morrigoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrigoon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/6 "2003-04-24T04:43:01Z")
friedo: yeah, that’s really good advice to give someone who’s trying to become a stock analyst, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/7 "2003-04-24T04:43:33Z")
Appointments made with people who disregard them serve as best evidence of their poor intent. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/8 "2003-04-24T04:47:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Morrigoon \* > \*\*friedo: yeah, that’s really good advice to give someone who’s trying to become a stock analyst, thanks. \*\* In that case, don’t buy an index fund. You’ll put yourself out of a job. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![lorinada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/9 "2003-04-24T04:50:42Z")
But, you knew he was a prick before all this… Speaking of which, I think if he can drag it, it’s not likely very tiny ;). Oh, what’s that you say, he has 1/2 inch legs? ---
**Author:** ![Morrigoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Morrigoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrigoon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/10 "2003-04-24T05:04:27Z")
LOL lorinada! No- he’s over 6 feet tall! (Proof positive you cannot judge a man by the size of his feet!) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/11 "2003-04-24T13:15:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*Appointments made with people who disregard them serve as best evidence of their poor intent. \*\* You got that fortune cookie too? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-asshat-friend/170757/12 "2003-04-24T16:11:34Z")
I am very intolerant of people who waste my time. People who wouldn’t steal money from me will steal bits and pieces of my life away without any thought. Be that being late, or just not showing up, or anything else that prevents me from doing something that I want to do. I’m with you Morrigoon.