>< Wow, it seems I do this a lot here. >< However, this is a rant, and I'm posting it here because I'm at work and I can't just start yelling or punching a pillow.

Why is it that all the guys around here seem to be so immiture? I mean, really? It's a bit of a long story, but here's the basics.

My good friend decides to introduce me to one of her friends, who apparently really started liking me. Yes, he is a nice guy, and he's funny, but as for a relationship, definately not for me. We just wouldn't mix well, and I know that.

However, the biggest part of the story is that he has a tendency to over-react and act very selfish and immiture when he does not get his way, including whining.

Whining is something I cannot take, at all. (Granted, when it's done in a teasing manner, that's fine. I whine when I stub my toe, or when it's too cold. >< So, at times when I said I couldn't do something with him, he went into this whole dramatic act and it usually got more people involved.

Once was because my car was broke, which thank you, cost me $950 to fix, and the other time was because I had to help my family can and pickle the last things from the garden. Both times, he started crap, and made me look like a bad person until others heard my side of the story.

I'm not looking for a relationship right now, which is something he couldn't understand, so when he pushed me again by asking, I just said I wanted to be friends.

Want to know the response to that?

Halloween is like my favorite Holiday, just to let you know. I love it for the fact that besides conventions, I can run around in a costume without getting the police called on me.

I was going to a party with my friend who introduced us last Friday, and here's the message he sends to her.

"I have an idea. When she gets to the party, let me know, and I'll start sending you depressing messages like I'm going to kill myself and stuff like that, and then tell her what I'm saying so she'll feel really bad and it will ruin her Halloween."

.... I don't even know how to respond to that. My friend of course said no and he did respond to her that he was just kidding... but still... am I wrong to think that that was totally immiture and uncalled for, even if he called it a joke? It just really bothered me.

So, then, I never confronted him or anything about this, I'm just letting myself cool down from it, but I've been trying to talk to him for the last couple of days to say hi and just talk, but he's kinda been brushing me off by not saying anything back, which is fine. I just let him.

But last night, he sends me a message saying that he hasn't really seen me around, and I just said I've been really tired lately because of getting a slight cold, and my two jobs have been busy, so when I come home, I'm working on something, but have still been on AIM. So he just said oh and stopped talking.

Trying to be nice, I just made with some chit chat and said I was behind in Christmas shopping.

Which went into a rather big fight. He mentioned something about me managing my time better, which was only about wrapping because I hate to do it, and then when I mentioned my family was picky, which they are, and I don't mind that, because I know what to get anyway, he went into this arguement about "It defeats the purpose of buying a gift if you just ask the person what they want. You should know them well enough to get them something without asking."

Which is true, but I still like a list to know what some people need. It just kinda got ugly, because I was saying my family is picky, and his smart ass reply was

"Oh yeah, because I'm just so sure that if you don't get the right gift, you're family's going to lynch you."

I was rather pissed at this point, and had to wait a minute to respond and then I typed this

"I never said anything about them lynching me, I just was saying they're picky, and it's funny. I'm sorry for bringing up my Christmas Shopping with you."

To which then, I just signed off and went to bed. It was probably immiture on my end, and I admit that, but at the moment, I really can't deal with the mental stress. I probably was in the wrong there, but I was just so irritated I just wanted to get away from it right then.

*sigh*

Again, sorry for ranting, but I needed to get it off my chest, and there's not much else I can do while I'm at work. I'll probably end up deleting this before too long, but maybe if I could ask, does anyone else see this as me overreacting to some of the crap he's pulled, or do I have a right to be slightly peeved at it?

=3 Not like I dated him and the good news is I'm still single, but I guess I'm asking if I should feel bad for getting mad.

With that longer than meant to be story, (which incredibly is still not the whole story) I'll shut up now and let you get back to your lives.