[SIZE=2]So, I have a really good personal friend, we’ll call her Caitlin. I’ve known Caitlin for going on about six years, so to say she’s a fairly big part of my life is an understatement. Her and I were talking one night when she mentioned she’s never been taken her out in her life.
I mentally paused and had to fact-verify really quick. See, Caitlin and her boyfriend had been dating for a year or so, so the idea that she had never been taken out seemed very strange to me. She went on to tell me blah blah blah, Adam is a terrible boyfriend, he does this, he does that, it’s all terrible. Whatever. So, I figure, you know what? I’m single now, I have a good deal of disposable income from selling my ex-fiancee’s crap, I’ll do something nice for a change.
I call Caitlin one night and tell her that if she wanted I was going to out to grab a bite to eat and if she wanted to come she was more then welcome to. She accepted. Now, usually if I go out to get something to eat on my own it’s to a place like Muscle Maker Grill or something. Obviously this was not going to fly with Caitlin, and when she came out to my car (which, like me, is not very aesthetically pleasing) looking like she was ready to go insert whatever event people get way too dressed up for, I figured, well, hell, we’ll go somewhere (relatively, given my generally poor lifestyle) nice. So we end up going out to dinner at a Cheesecake Factory (shoot me, this isn’t the point). Blah blah blah, I took her out to dinner, she said she had a great time. Night ends.
Fast forward to yesterday. I look at my phone and notice a call from a number I don’t recognize, so I call it back. What follows is my best attempt to sum up the conversation.
He answers the phone swearing. I do not know this at the time but the person on the other end of the line is Adam. He is apparently livid I took his girlfriend out ‘behind his back’, made her cheat on him, so on and so forth. I explained that I don’t think what happened was really ‘cheating’ in any relationship sense, and the closest I came to making some sort of romantic move towards her was either a; giving her my hoodie (I didn’t know we were going someplace nice, god damn it) because she is very small and gets cold or b; opening her car door for her (partly out of perhaps misplaced chivalry and partly because my car is a piece of shit and the door sticks). He doesn’t want to hear it, I made him look bad. I point out that in all honesty I was doing something he should have been doing anyway and (not so politely) told him he should stop wasting my time.
What follows is what I can only describe as ‘some sort of giant fucking diarrhea shitstorm’. Suddenly Caitlin is a giant whore, I’m a two-timing dirtbag, Adam is the best guy ever who doesn’t deserve this, all sorts of ridiculous shit. I call up Adam and explain my position to him as best I can. Caitlin doesn’t need this sort of crap, I sure as hell don’t need this crap, and he probably doesn’t need this crap either. I manage to get him to at least stop acting like a teenage girl and spreading bullshit rumors but I can tell he is still pissed off and he makes it clear that if he saw me he would likely be violent. Now, I have no real overwhelming desire to fight some 110 pound asshole with an inferiority complex, but this whole situation is just really pissing me off (couldn’t tell by the giant fucking post?).
Did I really do something that wrong here? Is this guy an asshole? Am I an asshole? What should I do about this guy?
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