Have you ever been stuck in an elevator with your ex's best friend?

[ZombieNixon]

And even though you and your ex have reconciled and are pretty good friends and mutually agree that that was the relationship that taught you both to never date a person who lives in the same building as you but her friend still doesn't like you because she thinks you hurt your ex even though you and your ex both agree that wasn't the case but your ex's friend still won't talk to you even when you're the only two people in this elevator that's going down eight floors and no on gets on in between floor ten and floor two and you have to pretend to be really interested in the elevator doors because she's wearing a shirt that says "What are you looking at?" over her chest and you really want the ride to be over because you were just going to put your laundry in the dryer and all of a sudden you're sweating bullets hoping you don't do something stupid because the two of you are still kind of members of the same loosely wound group and word gets around and you're already confused in your new relationship and old ghosts are really the last thing you want to have to deal with right now but all that is in danger of happening because you waited an extra half-hour to go get your clothes?

Yeah. It's awkward. x(

(Wow. I'm :crazy:)

[billyskank]

1. No, that never happened to me

:P

[ZombieNixon]

2. Damn, I am so alone.

:P

[Writer]

3. Maybe not quite in those words...

:shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

5. Oh, I bet you used punctuation.

:eyes: You and your fancy grammar. :P

[Writer]

7. Why, yes. I do, at times, utilize punctuation.

In fact, I find punctuation to be, without a doubt, useful in three ways: I can organize my thoughts; my writing becomes easier to read; others can scoff at my grammatical snobbery.

The. End.

[ZombieNixon]

10. Now, occasionally, I find, to my dismay,

that Americans, in their shoddy use of language; that language being English, a member of the Indo-European family (West Germanic group, Germanic subfamily), of course, are often lax in their use of the Oxford comma: the final comma in a list such as this one - eggs, milk, and jelly.

:P

[Robb]

16. AP style

Oxford be damned. :D

[ZombieNixon]

17. n00b. i pwn ur b0xx0rz.

:P

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Gosh. Somehow I am glad that's never happened to me.

:hug:

[ZombieNixon]

8. Oh yeah,

and when you finally get to the laundry room, you find you've left your clothes in the washer damp too long and they smell funny, so you have to wash them again and then you find that someone's knocked over your bottle of detergent so when you open, you find that the cap's full of detergent so you have to pull one of your shirts out of the machine to wipe out the inside of the cap and the side of the bottle, but the shirt's still wet so you end up getting it all lathered up and have to go wash your hands but the bathroom's being cleaned so you have to run downstairs to the 7-11 and when you get back you discover you don't have enough money on your laundry card to do another two loads and all you have is a twenty and the cafeteria's out of five dollar bills so you have to go back to 7-11, but they won't make change unless you buy something so you get a box of TicTacs for 87 cents and then you realize that you haven't eaten all day and the caferteria won't open for another half-hour so you eat the entire box of TicTacs in one sitting and now your tongue hurts. :(

(OK, that didn't really happen, thank God, but it could have. :D)

[Race4Peace]

6. almost...

escalator? yes. staircase? yes. hallway? yes. waiting in line at the drivers license office? yes. on the city bus/subway? yes. elvator? no

[ZombieNixon]

12. Elevators suck.

It's like being stuck in a moving box hurtling toward the ground. What if it broke? The two of you could be stuck there for hours...talk about awkward. x(

[Race4Peace]

14. well, i dont know about going down, but i remember going up w/

my friends ex, so ive been on the other side of it. stil a little odd.

and being at the bus stop really sucks.

[eyesroll]

9. I attended a baseball game today with my ex, his wife, his stepchild,

my SO, my SO's kid, and a couple others.

I don't do awkward.

[ZombieNixon]

11. Lucky you.

:P

[eyesroll]

13. Nah, it was fun (until SO's kid had a meltdown but that had nothing

to do with the company and everything to do with the fact that she's three).

[grace0418]

15. No, but I ran into my best friend's ex and nearly killed him.

him. Honestly, it's the closest I've ever come to murder. He was an asshole like no other: he used her, cheated on her, and eventually beat her so hard she ended up hospitalized. Then of course he denied the whole thing. Since it happened on campus (I had already graduated and she was a senior at the time) the prosecution of this fucker was under university control. Somehow his rich father was able to get enough "witnesses" to lie about what happened and give false alibis. So he got off scott free. At the time my best friend and I were only acquaintances, we didn't become really close until after college, so I heard about this after the fact.

Fast forward a couple of years, we're all living in Chicago and I was shopping at Paper Source. The store is in an old building with a long, narrow staircase. I was coming downstairs when I saw him and his new victim... er, girlfriend... coming up the stairs. I went blind with rage and was one second away from charging him and pushing him down the stairs. It was all I could do to stop myself. Luckily I was able to, but I was shaking with rage. I really scared myself that day. I think of myself as a pacifist but WOW.

[ZombieNixon]

18. Wow. Umm...

I don't think "awkward" quite does justice to that situation. :wow:

[miss_american_pie]

19. I can top that

One of my exes is my husbnad's closest friend. And his wife is my closest friend. :hi:

[ZombieNixon]

20. Wow. That sounds like a plot we came up with in my screenwriting class

last quarter. :o

[miss_american_pie]

21. It's not nearly as twisted as it sounds.

:)

[entanglement]

22. That's GOT to be the longest sentence EVER

:crazy:

[ZombieNixon]

23. Yeah, probably.

:P

[Jazz2006]

24. Yes, exactly like that except

the shirt said, "Don't mess with Texas".

(just kidding)

:rofl:

[no name no slogan]

25. Close.

Last summer, not even eight weeks after I moved out of my house, I ran into one of my ex-wife's best and longest friends in my building at work. What's stranger still is that this friend was present the night my ex decided she'd had enough of our marriage.

It was a tad bit awkward.

[ZombieNixon]

26. Wow.

:o

Yeah, I can see how that would be a little disconserting.

[JVS]

27. Your prose has become tiresome. Why do you care if you are friends...

with your ex or friends with her friends? To hell with them all!

[ZombieNixon]

28. You just don't like the run-on sentence.

:P

[JVS]

29. This is most certainly true. Check out the button to the right of the m

IT'S A FUCKING COMMA! LEARN TO USE IT!

[ZombieNixon]

30. its broked

so is the apostrophe and the shift key

P

and the colon

[JVS]

31. then use the / key. It's archaic/ but it does the job

[ZombieNixon]

33. indeed/ it seems/ my dear sir/

that you/ in your position as a...yeah, I don't really know where I'm going with this. :shrug:

[Ava]

32. nope, but i've dated one

i know, i'm horrible.

[ZombieNixon]

34. Pff...tell us something we don't know.

:P

(This is the Lounge, we're all horrible people in our own way. :P)

[Ava]

35. yeah, but i'm not in your level of horribleness

i think it can be said that many of you have done worse! :rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

36. Well, I've dated an ex's best friend, true.

:blush:

All three of us still get along great.

:P

[Ava]

37. both of the guys hate me now

:rofl: