Oh my GOD I cannot be bovered wiv this

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People. GRRR!!!

You have one good friend complaining because she hasn't had any submissions for her student newspaper agony aunt column, so you take something from your life, spin it out a bit, indulge in a bit of hyperbole for a laff, make sure no names are named and send it in, then forget all about it.

Some weeks later you get another friend bawling her eyes out because you wrote about her (even though you didn't use her name or sign it with your own name), she takes what she reads in a student newspaper way too seriously - a student newspaper that is full of tongue-in-cheek humour - and she's completely blown it out of proportion and is calling you horrible, petty and immature. Even though she wasn't mentioned explicitly she say's it's obvious it's about her, when after a little probing it becomes apparent that somebody else told her it was about her.

At first she won't even agree to talk to you about it in person but attacks you by text, you apologise sincerely, saying that you're very sorry that she's upset but that that was never the intention and suggesting that perhaps she's taking it a little too seriously. It is, after all, just a trashy student paper and it was written somewhat humourously. She agrees to meet with you in a few days time to talk it over, and then her Significant Other gets stuck in. CHRIST!!

Then you get home and find out that she's been bawling her eyes out to your flatmate in your absence, and he seems to be actually ENJOYING this!! You determine that you have to find out exactly what happened by speaking to the editor of the paper, who knows the offended party personally (though not all that well, or so you think), and your friend who writes the agony aunt column (who she doesn't really know at all, to the best of your knowledge), to see if you can work out who's been sh*t-stirring. You then decide that you're no longer comfortable in your flat and should start seriously thinking about moving out ASAP.

It's enough to make you give up writing for trashy student papers.

It's enough to make you give up on people.

>:(