The Thing My Friends Tease Me About

Because I am old each time I changed phones or forgot my TikTok password I would have to get a new account. I like watching TikToks but I don’t post on TikTok. Some are really funny and have me guffawing for days.

I have an internet friend I used to talk to on the phone (yay Telegram because we don’t need to reveal our phone numbers!) and my friends who also know him would tease me relentlessly about it. The reason he and I more or less could talk all the time was probably because we are unorthodox and interested in various things. The conversations were never boring. I don’t like talking to people who only talk about other people, and given my nature I would just be frank with my opinion. Like it doesn’t matter to me if you dislike me. We can’t like everyone! With that being said I also don’t care to be liked by anyone.

Our relationship became strained when his wife supposedly kept hitting on me a few years ago. On TikTok! I think for some reason she found me attractive. The feeling was not mutual. People sometimes think I’m posing a challenge to them when I tell them I am single. As if I am telling them to change things for me. No! Leave me alone. But nowadays I am smarter. If it’s somebody I don’t like I just say I have been attached for years. Then I pause. Then they also pause because they think it means I don’t want to elaborate and want to remain mysterious. No lah!

Anyway. Back to the wife hitting on me. I did tell my friends I suspected it was just my friend and not his wife. I knew they were swingers.. let’s not get into it.. this is other people’s lifestyle.. but my opinion has always been if I wanted to engage in naughty stuff I would choose the folks la. Why bother with people you’re not physically attracted to!

I get teased a lot for that! In real life if people like me and are explicit about it but I don’t reciprocate I don’t make fun of them either. You are allowed to like me. But it doesn’t mean I will be bullied into liking you back. So far I have only half strangled maybe 2 or 3 people who wouldn’t take no for an answer.

Also. This has nothing to do with the topic. Saw a snippet of Training Day on TikTok. I used to watch that movie all the time when I was younger. Denzel!! And TIL he won an Oscar for his role. Ethan Hawke was nominated as well for Best Supporting. One time I had discussed the movie with my brother. I said the events in the movie happen in a single day. He was like ‘what’. I said if it happened in 2 days it would have been called 2-Day Course. I need to find where to watch it. It is over 20 years old.

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