I guess I know who my friends are.

This all happened this morning.  I had a couple cups of coffee, posted on Vox for a bit, and then was going to go to the gym.  But I get downstairs and my battery is completely dead.  I looked in my trunk for my jumper cables, but I think they got left in my mom's car when I was in Houston, so I didn't have any.

It's like 10:30am on a Saturday and I go walking up and down my street, looking for neighbors to give me a jump.  Absolutely no one is home.

I went to my friend Melissa's house and she and her boyfriend were there.  They had out of town guests in from Seattle and were making breakfast.  Her boyfriend, Shawn, came out to see if he had any cables.  He didn't.  We walked across the street to one of his friend's houses, he didn't have any either.  We all went to my car to just check things out.  They both agreed it was just my battery.

So we are all standing around and I said, I could just go to an auto parts store and buy new cables and get my battery checked and/or replaced.  Shawn volunteered to drive me up there.  But wanted to go eat breakfast with the house guests first.  The neighbor offered to help, but Shawn said he could do it.  And I was like, thank you so much, I really appreciate it.  He said, I'll give you a call as soon as I am done with breakfast.

So around 11:45am, he knocks on my door.  Tells me that Melissa wants him to run some errands for her and he'll come around later to help me.  I was like, do you want to just run all the errands at the same time, and he says, "Um, no, not this trip."  I was like, "oh, ok, let me know when you can do it then."

12:40pm I get a call from Melissa, I missed the call, but her voicemail was this:

"You know, Shawn and I feel sorry for you and all..... but your dead battery came at the worst possible time for us.  We have out of town guests and are trying to get stuff done here.  I think it's incredible selfish of you to demand that Shawn take care of your car problems for you.  I think you should find someone else to help you."

FUCK!!!

Seriously, I wouldn't have been pissed off at all, if 2+ hours ago he told me he would not help me.  But I had to study for my Series 63, I had stuff to do, and I was stuck sitting around the house without a car for several hours waiting for them.  And then, after all that time, he totally flakes out.  I think that was rude.  PLUS, I never asked, he offered.  I was in a difficult situation and was extremely grateful for the help.  I never even brought any of this up, Shawn did.  And if he didn't want to help, why did he wait over 2 hours and then have his girlfriend call and leave a bitchy message on my phone instead of man-ing up and calling me himself. 

Well, I guess I know now, who not to ever turn to or call my friend.