My best friend had a new girlfriend awhile back that was pretty cool. Anyway, the first week or so they were dating, we had a party and she brought a couple of her friends. Just being friendly, I introduced myself to one of them, let's call her Jill.
Apparently, we had met the week before and I didn't remember her. She busted on me for not remembering her, so I replied, "Well, I guess you didn't leave that big of an impression!" Put lightly, that seemed to have touched a nerve. She continued to get on my case for the rest of the night, randomly coming up to me and introducing herself to me. I thought it was kind of cute, so played back.
After a couple interactions like that, she started to get plain mean with straight insults. My response was always to bust her right back, and that just fueled her more. After a couple hours she was doing things like randomly punching me (not lightly, either), spilling drinks, and being very rude to me when I was talking to other girls. It was clearly not flirting, and was just obnoxious.
I tried to stay away from her for the rest of the night because she was really on my nerves, but she always seemed to be around and on my case. (The house wasn't that big) It was really, really annoying, and kind of ruined the night, because I couldn't get away from her.
Anyway, fast forward like four months, and still, everytime I saw her (she was apparently best friends with the girl and they went everywhere together) she went way beyond the call of duty to be a *****. The game plan for me everynight was to just try and keep my cool and not fight back, because she was one of those types that will escalate very quickly. On more than one ocassions she would yell how I'm such an ******* and this and that. Basically, the rest of the group would stay silent the entire time, so my choices were either yell back or shut up. When I shut up, she just kept on going, literally for like 10 minutes sometimes. All of this was stemming from the first meeting where I didn't remember her.
I tried talking to my buddy's girl (who was pretty cool) and she just agreed with me that it was irrational, but said that's how Jill was.
End of the line, it appeared Jill had some extreme psychological issues because she's been shot down a bunch of times (she's not ugly, but not really attractive; she's a little chubby, but had a nice big ol' booty and rack). That being said, it's rarely all one person's fault. How would you have handled this better than I did? In most cases I could have walked away, but that would essentially mean I'd just have to go home as we were all hanging out as a group of like 10; she just dominated the whole night by yelling at me.
My buddy and his girl broke up, and I haven't seen the girlfriend or her friend since. (This was awhile ago) So in other words, it was not resolved. While I do not care about this specific individual, I would like to figure out how I could better handle this type of person in the future.
Have you guys ever known someone like that, and how did you handle it?
Apparently, we had met the week before and I didn't remember her. She busted on me for not remembering her, so I replied, "Well, I guess you didn't leave that big of an impression!" Put lightly, that seemed to have touched a nerve. She continued to get on my case for the rest of the night, randomly coming up to me and introducing herself to me. I thought it was kind of cute, so played back.
After a couple interactions like that, she started to get plain mean with straight insults. My response was always to bust her right back, and that just fueled her more. After a couple hours she was doing things like randomly punching me (not lightly, either), spilling drinks, and being very rude to me when I was talking to other girls. It was clearly not flirting, and was just obnoxious.
I tried to stay away from her for the rest of the night because she was really on my nerves, but she always seemed to be around and on my case. (The house wasn't that big) It was really, really annoying, and kind of ruined the night, because I couldn't get away from her.
Anyway, fast forward like four months, and still, everytime I saw her (she was apparently best friends with the girl and they went everywhere together) she went way beyond the call of duty to be a *****. The game plan for me everynight was to just try and keep my cool and not fight back, because she was one of those types that will escalate very quickly. On more than one ocassions she would yell how I'm such an ******* and this and that. Basically, the rest of the group would stay silent the entire time, so my choices were either yell back or shut up. When I shut up, she just kept on going, literally for like 10 minutes sometimes. All of this was stemming from the first meeting where I didn't remember her.
I tried talking to my buddy's girl (who was pretty cool) and she just agreed with me that it was irrational, but said that's how Jill was.
End of the line, it appeared Jill had some extreme psychological issues because she's been shot down a bunch of times (she's not ugly, but not really attractive; she's a little chubby, but had a nice big ol' booty and rack). That being said, it's rarely all one person's fault. How would you have handled this better than I did? In most cases I could have walked away, but that would essentially mean I'd just have to go home as we were all hanging out as a group of like 10; she just dominated the whole night by yelling at me.
My buddy and his girl broke up, and I haven't seen the girlfriend or her friend since. (This was awhile ago) So in other words, it was not resolved. While I do not care about this specific individual, I would like to figure out how I could better handle this type of person in the future.
Have you guys ever known someone like that, and how did you handle it?