My friend’s grandmother passed away and I told him ‘sounds like a you problem’ – it was a joke but he blocked me
A WOMAN didn’t think her reply to her friend’s news of his grandmother’s passing was a valid reason for him to block her. The anonymous 23-year-old claimed she’d thought the heartless response would cheer him up. “So I’ve known this friend for about three years now,” she began on her Reddit post. “We met in […]
A WOMAN didn’t think her reply to her friend’s news of his grandmother’s passing was a valid reason for him to block her.
The anonymous 23-year-old claimed she’d thought the heartless response would cheer him up.
“So I’ve known this friend for about three years now,” she began on her Reddit post.
“We met in college and have only actually hung out a few times in person. We don’t live anywhere near each other anymore.
“So nowadays our relationship is just texting and occasionally FaceTiming.
“Sometimes it gets flirty but I’ve been seeing someone else for a few months now so anything we had kind of fizzled.
“Basically, for the past month, we’ve been texting almost every day.
“It’s always friendly, mostly witty banter but we have a similar sense of dark humor so it’s easy to keep a conversation.”
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“He’s always been someone I can confide in when times are tough with guys, family, and anything really,” she continued.
“So this past weekend I told him that I was going back to my hometown and that we should meet up cause I haven’t seen him in almost a year.
“He agreed so we decided to meet up on Sunday.
“On Saturday night we were having our normal banter texting session.
“Since it was almost Valentine’s Day I sent him one of those annoying chain texts with all the emojis to be funny.
“Immediately after I sent it he said ‘Oh never mind I’m busy Sunday.’ In response, I joked ‘Wow. You really don’t want to hang out with me then? Thank god’
“He didn’t respond after that. I didn’t think anything of it until today. He texted me this morning saying ‘Honestly I don’t think so.’
“I asked him why he was being weird and he said, ‘I don’t know. I got a lot going on.’
“I didn’t want to pressure him so I just let him be and decided to text him later.
“We had this inside joke where we would always say ‘Sounds like a you problem,’ if something bad ever happened in our life.
“When my dog died, he said ‘Sounds like a you problem.’
“So he texted me later that night saying his grandma died. I’m not really good with death and didn’t know what to say so I said ‘Sounds like a you problem.’
“He liked it but didn’t reply. About 15 minutes later I followed up with ‘I’m so sorry for your loss. Let me know if there’s anything I can do.’
“But the text wasn’t going through. I realized then he blocked me on Snapchat, Instagram, Venmo and even blocked my number.
“In hindsight, I know it probably wasn’t the best thing to say but I thought it might cheer him up.”
While most considered her at fault for replying with a heartless message, he too was to blame.
One user wrote: “It wasn’t okay when he said it about your dog, and it wasn’t okay to say about his grandma.
“You should’ve stopped being friends with him after he said that about your dog, not become an a**hole too.”
A second said: “Both of y’all are the worst.”
However, some continued to still see how she deserved to be the one blocked by her friend.
“You’re the a**hole. He was in a bad place and reached out to you.
“And instead of providing the comfort when he needed it, you gave it time to make it look like you were blowing him off,” voiced a third.
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