It'll Just Be a Tiny Prick, I Swear It Won't Hurt

So once upon a time, a long, long time ago, and according to my husband, I was sort of, kind of, hot. At least in the Nerd Kingdom. I was the Queen of a group of misfits and rejects, and each of them wanted to get down my pants. Including MJ. No, this isn't a fairy tale, I assure you, 25 years ago, I was thin, not bad looking and had big boobies. A teenage boys dream. I even dated a few of these dorks, some out of pity, some out of genuine interest. Most of them I lost contact with after high school, but for a few years, I still had a couple of groupies.

One of these boys, we'll call him Piss, was friends with MJ and another guy who we'll call Moan. They all hung out together and got drunk together and played their nerdy card games together. (And truly, I say these things out of love.) Piss was one of those guys who let me in on his little secret. And I think you know what I mean by little. Ahem. Moving on.

Piss was always full of drama. He was also always broke. To be honest, he was annoying, but not completely poor company, so we let him hang out with us, even though we had to suffer through him putting on a show by eating sauce packets at Taco Bell while everyone else at least had the buck to buy a taco. Or the time when we took him to see Rocky Horror Picture show and he disappeared. We looked for him and found him hiding in a doorway of another building down the street. We tried to cheer him up by taking him rollerskating where I worked, and he repaid us by saying he was going to stand on the train tracks, and disappearing again. We ended up getting kicked out of the park by security. But fuck, who doesn't love drama when they're a teenager? Gives you a reason to get up in the morning.

So that's how the relationship went for years. I knew Piss had a thing for me, but I wasn't convinced he wouldn't have a thing for any person if he thought they would have sex with him, and that doesn't discount males. Eventually, we just sort of stopped running in the same circles. I personally didn't think we parted on bad terms. The few times I've seen him in public or once at the hospital when we were all visiting Moan, he's been cordial. I've never had any desire to rekindle any kind of friend relationship with him, but I don't hold any hard feelings towards him.

Moan posted a message on my wall the other day, and when I clicked onto his wall to respond, I noticed that Piss was among his friends on there. I clicked on his link, and with no hesitation, sent him a request. Now, I've had issues with Facebook before. A long time friend of mine rejected my request, I still don't know why. He has friends on there that are mutual, and I don't think it's because he doesn't remember me. We were good friends. He's come out of the closet though, and openly dresses in drag. I know that, he posted pictures of himself in drag, and yet I chose to click friend request anyway. Obviously I'm not judging him. I also had my request denied by my old penpal, after she let it sit there for 6 months. I mean, who does that? Make a choice, it's that damn simple. And I can admit I had hoped she'd accept it, and the fact that she didn't upsets me more than I can say. Now, every time I find someone I knew in the past, I debate whether or not they would accept it before I send a request.

I honestly didn't think Piss would reject my request. He was nice about it though, and even sent me an excuse. He was sorry, but because of "our past" and the fact that my husband wants nothing to do with him, he would have to respectfully decline. I sent back a message, telling him that my husband didn't control me, tell me what to do, or pick my friends for me, and that "in the past", I thought we were friends, so why was he rejecting my request because of it? I thanked him for at least giving me an explanation because that's more than the others had done who had rejected me. He hasn't responded.

In this case, I am not going to be upset if he still chooses not to accept, and the reason is because he did at least take a minute of his time and give me a reason. I don't understand the "past" comment, and I'd like to know what that means.

The story, as MJ tells it, is that Piss thinks MJ stole me from him. He was apparently going around spreading rumors that MJ was cheating on his (at the time) fiancee with me. This was absolutely not true, and I had no idea that this was going on, and in any case, I couldn't be "stolen" from someone I was never "with". MJ threatened to make Piss dead if he ever laid eyes on him again. MJ did break up with his fiancee but not for me. We didn't start dating for years after they broke up. As I've said, we've seen Piss a number of times and MJ did not pound his ass into a greasy spot on the ground. I can't imagine he's still afraid that MJ is going to hurt him, and I was unaware of this to begin with.

I'm interested to see if he ever does respond, what he has to say about it.