Promises Broken. Waterpark Trips Cancelled. These things hurt, you know?

There are a lot of truly insensitive bastards out there in the world. 

Some people take important things seriously in life, you know? Some people understand what's important, what matters – what REALLY matters – in life, and they act accordingly. They FEEL accordingly. 

And what do others do? They just say, oh come on, it's no big deal. We'll go some other day. 

Some other day. 

Some of the worse perpetrators of this insensitive sort of brush-off, some of the people who really get it the least sometimes and in fact really just don't even get YOU, are none other than our very own best friends. 

My best friend from college did this to me once. We really had something together, at least I thought we did. We had a long-standing tradition (2 years! TWO YEARS we'd done this! In a row!!!) where she would take me to the waterpark during the summer. 

She would buy me an ice cream cone, and take me on all the fun slides and we'd run around the playground where the elephant sprays the water out of his trunk and you can stand under the mushroom with gallons of water pouring off its cap. 

We would have oh so much fun when she took me for our annual waterpark day. 

Oh yeah and the two kids that she babysat for two weeks every year while their parents were out of town would come too.

Then one year, everything changed. I was in the middle of charting out which slides we'd go to first and what time we'd hit the wavepool in order to get the best spot when the waves started and - 

And then she called, and said we wouldn't be going to the waterpark this year. 

Little Johnny and Little Sarah said they were too old and cool for the waterpark this year, and they didn't want to go. They wanted to do something COOL this year instead, like sit around and play with matches or watch Hannah Montana.  

I asked what that had to do with us. So leave them at home alone and let them play with matches then. We'll be able to get around that much quicker then, because look at this new curve they've put in on the Lazy River, it's going to be awes-

But she said, Sorry G. Why don't you come over and watch “Hannah Montana” with us?

I was understandably devastated. It's like she doesn't get me at all. Maybe she never really did. 

This guy understands though. I feel ya, buddy. I feel ya. 

Water Park from Brian Chandler on Vimeo.

Comments

[NAUNorske]

Lol, I've totally done that to a friend before. I guess I owe someone a trip to the water park.