Barney did it again.
He leaves me as his last option to see, if he's not doing anything else, unless of course that is he can use me to his advantage, to get something from me, like the prime seats to the Mets-Braves game that I was able to get for us last Saturday.
After letting me twist in the wind about tomorrow, with the intent of only seeing me if nothing better came along, he then told me that the flake Sharon called him. Bravo for him. This isn't about "sour grapes" of him having someone, and me not at this point. It's about being completely fed up with his sniveling, crying attitude, when things aren't going well for him, and expecting me to be his caretaker when things are down for him, and then him turning into a smug, conceited, jerk, when things are going well for him.
He then proceeded to rub the issue of what I'm going through with the DMV in my face. I had explained the situation to him clearly in the e-mail I sent him, which he said he read. In spite of this, he had to bring it up again.
Without trying to ask me my plans.. he said to me "I'm free next Saturday". All him. Even my dad, with all my issues with him, and who is 10 times busier than Barney, will say "Are you available to see me on X day". Most of the time with my dad, I tell him I will make myself available to accomadate him. The point is.. my dad shows courtesy in that way.
Bottom line: I know I need to expand myself socially, and greatly distance myself from Barney. This is someone, who, if things were going well for me, and he was having a rough period in his life, would want me to coddle him, and not hear about my good fortune. I moved to PA from NJ in 1999, something I really wanted at the time, about a week after Barney had been fired from a job. He didn't want to hear anything about me being happy at the time, and told me to keep my happiness contained. Hypocrite. This man rubs all his good fortune in my face, at times when things are rough for me.
I know he will never change. My relatives tell me to take him with a grain of salt. With each thing he does, it seems he's putting another nail in the coffin of our friendship,. I guess not having lived near him or seen him much for 13 years, I forgot just how truly smug he can be.
He leaves me as his last option to see, if he's not doing anything else, unless of course that is he can use me to his advantage, to get something from me, like the prime seats to the Mets-Braves game that I was able to get for us last Saturday.
After letting me twist in the wind about tomorrow, with the intent of only seeing me if nothing better came along, he then told me that the flake Sharon called him. Bravo for him. This isn't about "sour grapes" of him having someone, and me not at this point. It's about being completely fed up with his sniveling, crying attitude, when things aren't going well for him, and expecting me to be his caretaker when things are down for him, and then him turning into a smug, conceited, jerk, when things are going well for him.
He then proceeded to rub the issue of what I'm going through with the DMV in my face. I had explained the situation to him clearly in the e-mail I sent him, which he said he read. In spite of this, he had to bring it up again.
Without trying to ask me my plans.. he said to me "I'm free next Saturday". All him. Even my dad, with all my issues with him, and who is 10 times busier than Barney, will say "Are you available to see me on X day". Most of the time with my dad, I tell him I will make myself available to accomadate him. The point is.. my dad shows courtesy in that way.
Bottom line: I know I need to expand myself socially, and greatly distance myself from Barney. This is someone, who, if things were going well for me, and he was having a rough period in his life, would want me to coddle him, and not hear about my good fortune. I moved to PA from NJ in 1999, something I really wanted at the time, about a week after Barney had been fired from a job. He didn't want to hear anything about me being happy at the time, and told me to keep my happiness contained. Hypocrite. This man rubs all his good fortune in my face, at times when things are rough for me.
I know he will never change. My relatives tell me to take him with a grain of salt. With each thing he does, it seems he's putting another nail in the coffin of our friendship,. I guess not having lived near him or seen him much for 13 years, I forgot just how truly smug he can be.
