Atlanta ...Breakfast???

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Peaches

Oh, someone did check up on me - a friend of mine

Edited to add - and no need for a lenthly explanation - like I said, it was just one straw - not the whole basket. You might think I'm dumb, but I'm not totally irrational

Again, you're right, I'm an evil mean hateful person, you're right, I'm wrong.

You win.

[Jace]

unfortunately I am not going to be able to make it tonight....there is a SMALL possibility I will be there, but my wife's best friend needs some help with something at her new store and it could take a few hours...something about moving big shelves and stuff, things only a big fat, i mean strong, man can do

I am going to try and be on my way by 11pm, but she is in East Atlanta, so the drive from there to marietta diner is going on 45 minutes to an hour

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by Jace

I am going to try and be on my way by 11pm, but she is in East Atlanta, so the drive from there to marietta diner is going on 45 minutes to an hour

Drive times and traffic are no excuse with Hellpuppy and Gonzo. If you live an hour and half away and can't get there in 15 minutes, you're toast.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Peaches

Drive times and traffic are no excuse with Hellpuppy and Gonzo. If you live an hour and half away and can't get there in 15 minutes, you're toast.

that has never been the case for me...I am sorry that you feel so victimized though

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Jace

unfortunately I am not going to be able to make it tonight....there is a SMALL possibility I will be there, but my wife's best friend needs some help with something at her new store and it could take a few hours...something about moving big shelves and stuff, things only a big fat, i mean strong, man can do

I am going to try and be on my way by 11pm, but she is in East Atlanta, so the drive from there to marietta diner is going on 45 minutes to an hour

No problem, we do it again in 2 weeks.....same time same place.

[iamkathi]

I missed last night as well, I hit Gonzo with the news I was not coming.

That is the thing with friends... you can have a really crappy day and no one hates you for not showing up.

I am glad to hear there were new faces and I'll see you all in 2 weeks.

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by iamkathi

That is the thing with friends... you can have a really crappy day and no one hates you for not showing up.

That's very true! And they don't ridicule you for weeks/months about it either.

Jace, I don't feel victimized, but when 2 people send you 3-4 SMSs a week "inviting" you for dinner or breakfast in 15 minutes when they know you live an hour and a half a way, it gets a little old - fast I have rectified the problem on my own - and my cell phone bill thanks me

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Peaches

That's very true! And they don't ridicule you for weeks/months about it either.

Jace, I don't feel victimized, but when 2 people send you 3-4 SMSs a week "inviting" you for dinner or breakfast in 15 minutes when they know you live an hour and a half a way, it gets a little old - fast I have rectified the problem on my own - and my cell phone bill thanks me

But you sure are spending a lot of time and energy continuing to bitch about it to anyone who'll listen.

And I'm not going to get drawn into one your point by point arguements that'll go on for days. Only one who gains from that MIGHT be GonZo with some extra page impressions, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't want them that way.

I will say this, what's done is done. The past is the past, no one can do anything about it. Your interpretation and perception of events is very different from our intentions. What I, or anyone else, thinks of your perceptions is irrelevent. They are your's and your's alone, and I am guilty of not recognizing it before you were downright pissed off.

So be it, that's in the past, nothing I can do other than offer apologies, which I have.

What happens from here is up to you. You just want to be left alone, done. No one has said shit to or about you other than in direct response to you. Ask anyone who has been at breakfast or other events, we're not even discussing you behind your back.

If you wish to rejoin the fold, the door is open as it always has been, and I think we all have a pretty good understanding of what NOT to do going forward to tweeze you up. Or stay in the mountains and tell everyone we're evil incarnate if that's the only way you're going to be happy.

Your move.

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

But you sure are spending a lot of time and energy continuing to bitch about it to anyone who'll listen.

I would have taken the rest of your post a lot more seriously had you not started with this.

I can't make someone change, nor do I want to. There are just some behaviors I can't/won't put up with. That's just me. It's not anyone's "fault", just a difference in what people interpret as friendships.

No biggie. You're not bothering me any more, so I'll not bother you either. Sorry.

And no, I'm not "staying in the mountains" - I've probably been to ATL more in the last month than usual and have seen more people in the industry than usual, though not always under the best of circumstances.

And I've never said a word about anyone being evil. Though I DO wonder if I know the "Vinny" drunk you saw the other night......