I used to be really nice. Like, the NICE one. I am still nice. I am, just to the people I want to be nice to. You don't piss me off though and expect me to be silent about it. I guess I learned how to defend myself and the people I love. I'm also pretty quick to say what I think... that gets me in trouble. Oh well.
So, a friend of Geoff's friend broke his leg snow boarding. Yeah, I'm sure he is not having fun at this very moment. Anyway, I guess he rented out a place in the mountains and now can't use it. So, everyone says to contact us and see if we want to take over the rent for the winter. He e-mails Geoff with the information. Let me just say, we may do a swap thing with someone that lives in the mountains, and we may have a two bedroom place to stay on the weekends already. This guy says rent is $900 for a place above someone else's garage. It's a two bedroom that we share with two other couples. Sounds like a rip off to me. We pay almost a grand a month and don't even know if we will have our own room when we go up?! No thanks. Geoff tells him I'm not interested Fine, I'll be the scape goat.
I'm not going to paste the letter on here. I respect your eyes too much. Basically he writes back in HORRIBLE grammar saying that it sucks that I don't like to ride as much as my husband, and sounds like a route to divorce and that he'll go way down in price for us.
Ummm, first of all, if you are trying to get us to help you out maybe you shouldn't piss me off. Don't piss off your friends wife and expect them to help!!! Isn't that a no brianer?! Then, you basically state that because you and your wife got divorced over her not liking to 'ride' as much as you means that the same thing is in our cards. You don't know us! I LOVE to ski, but even if I didn't, I can't fathom that EVER coming between the relationship I have with Geoff. If you have ever hung out with the two of us, you know that we are the couple that makes you vomit in the back of your throat because we are sooo lovey. Third, you want us to pay almost a grand a month to stay above someone's garage and share one bathroom between six people?! You are on something! AND, when we say no to your offer, you say you will go "waaaaaaaay below that in price", so are you NOT paying $900 a month for your share?! I highly doubt you are. Fourth, until you learn how to speak and write in CORRECT ENGLISH, I have no desire to help you.
Enjoy the rental with your broken leg, sucker!
I asked Geoff what he said to this guys e-mail. His reply was simply, I said no. He is sooo much nicer than I am. No one tells me we are on track for divorce and gets away with it. Simple rule, be nice to your friend's wife if you want something out of it. Don't you guys agree?!?!
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that's what my husband would do too! But I'm with you... I would have been a total bitch and then walked away smiling! And i agree, don't piss off the wife of your friend...
That's madness and would upset me too.
I remember way back before my husband and I had adopted our son, someone asked how long the whole thing would take. I said two years and they exclaimed "Two years?! Wow, who knows if you'll even still be married in two years?"
Amazing how some people just spew things out. :)
Anyway, yeah it is not cool to insinuate a couple will divorce over anything so I hear you!
The guy sounds bitter about his own divorce. I think that sometimes you tend to view everything through the lens of your own experience. In other words, his wife didn't like skiing and it was a major rift in HIS relationship so now he projects that onto other people. It isn't true, but because it was true for him, he can't help it, because it was his truth.
Now, about the money... it sounds like he jacked the price on you to make a profit. $900/mo on an over the garage appt you would have to share with other people??? That totally sounds wrong. If he is paying $900/mo on that and not living there full-time by himself, he is paying way too much. That is insane. An over the garage appt with one bathroom? Seriously? It sounds like he was trying to make a little profit and he was trying to sucker you with his misfortune. Not good friend material. Geoff might want to rethink this "friend."
$900 for a shared room!?!?! UH, there are not capital letters big enough for me to laugh and say HELL NO!!!!
Treat the wife well, otherwise you won't be treated well. That is just being a decent person. Some people don't value marriage very much I guess. The image of him stuck inside with the broken leg must be kinda satisfying. :D
Y'all sound about like my husband and me. I tend to be more the raging bitch out of the two of us. He's Mr. Nice Guy. Boo who needs to be nice all the time? :)
You summed it up "very nicely." It's dangerous to jump into the middle of someone else's marriage that is none of his business.
This dude doesn't sound like much of a friend to me!
yeah, my husband = Mr. nice guy too. I'm the same as you...nice...but piss me off and watch out!
I agree!! love the post!
I completely agree. Dude was way out of line.
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