Today, after having insomnia and also being constantly woken in the middle of the night by spam texts, I turned my notifications off and fell asleep, forgetting I had done so - until a few days later when I discovered my friends two day-old text telling me he has incurable cancer. I've apologized profusely, but he’s ghosted me. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I woke up to 20 unread messages from my friend asking why I sent her stuff like, “I hate you” and “Get lost” at 3 a.m. Turns out I sleep-texted during a nightmare. Now I have to grovel and apologize for something I don't even remember doing. FML
Today, my phone kept beeping, so I put it on silent and went back to sleep. When I woke up later, I found the guy I went on a date with last night had sent dozens of messages. The first was "Good morning! :)" and the last was "Answer me u fuckin cunt!!!!" I think I'm staying single. FML
Today, I found out this week that I have a growth in my head that could be cancer. I messaged my closest best friend the news straight away, but she has completely ignored my message. It's now been three days and I've not heard a word from her. FML
Today, I chatted to a nice guy and gave him my number. I told him I was going to sleep because I had a headache, and then put my phone on silent. He rang multiple times, and when I obviously didn't pick up, he sent several texts insulting me and calling me gutless for not responding. FML
Today, I woke up, thinking it was going to be a good day. However, when I looked at my phone, I saw that my girlfriend had sent me an obscene number of angry messages, which are still coming in, because I forgot to say goodnight to her last night. FML
Today, I sent a risky text to my crush and immediately put my phone on airplane mode so I wouldn’t spend the next hour anticipating and responding to his reply. I forgot I did this and spent the whole day thinking he was ignoring me, but when I switched it back on, I'd not received a single message. FML
Today, I was being ghosted by the person I’d been talking to online for three months. I was heartbroken, but then I noticed a message notification pop up from him. Excited, I opened it up, only to see, "Sorry, wrong person." FML
Today, I texted a friend offering my condolences over the death of his grandfather. He hadn't been told his grandfather had died yet. FML
Today, I got woken up by a text from an unknown number at 3 am saying, "haha I found your number." I ignored it and tried to go back to sleep. After hours of trying to fall asleep, my drowsiness was disturbed by another text from the same person saying, "Sorry, wrong number." FML
Today, after wishing my closest friend a happy birthday yesterday, he ghosted me without saying anything. FML
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Grumpy Jack 27
Too bad he's got cancer but I wouldn't call him a friend if he reacts that way. On the other hand, depending on the type of phone you're using, you can change the settings so you get notified only when phone numbers you know try to reach you. He also kind of deserves it since he should've called you when he didn't get a response to his text. I mean, it didn't cross his mind something bad could have happened to you too ? Why people are always so selfish ?
Chazzster 32
Your friend with the incurable cancer diagnosis is in their own world of fear and suffering. They may not be thinking and feeling “normal”. I was diagnosed with cancer but my diagnosis was early enough that it could be treated and I am in remission. This news was devastating for your friend. It’s not your fault this happened to your friend or that you were being so bombarded by spam texts so you turned your phone notifications off. Apologize to your friend, preferably in person that this happened and explain how it happened if they are important to you. It’s not your fault they got this devastating news, but they need a good friend now. Now and in the future - It’s really easy to selectively block phone calls and texts from spammers as I get them on my smartphone. I do that all the time. While the occasional new spam text from a new number will come through, that has greatly diminished the number of spam calls and texts I get without turning off all notifications.
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Grumpy Jack 27
Too bad he's got cancer but I wouldn't call him a friend if he reacts that way. On the other hand, depending on the type of phone you're using, you can change the settings so you get notified only when phone numbers you know try to reach you. He also kind of deserves it since he should've called you when he didn't get a response to his text. I mean, it didn't cross his mind something bad could have happened to you too ? Why people are always so selfish ?
RichardPencil 32
Don't worry. He'll be ghosting everyone soon enough.
Chazzster 32
Your friend with the incurable cancer diagnosis is in their own world of fear and suffering. They may not be thinking and feeling “normal”. I was diagnosed with cancer but my diagnosis was early enough that it could be treated and I am in remission. This news was devastating for your friend. It’s not your fault this happened to your friend or that you were being so bombarded by spam texts so you turned your phone notifications off. Apologize to your friend, preferably in person that this happened and explain how it happened if they are important to you. It’s not your fault they got this devastating news, but they need a good friend now. Now and in the future - It’s really easy to selectively block phone calls and texts from spammers as I get them on my smartphone. I do that all the time. While the occasional new spam text from a new number will come through, that has greatly diminished the number of spam calls and texts I get without turning off all notifications.
Anzubar007 4
At least they can't hold that grudge for very long
MorganHex 28
sorry this happened to you and sorry about your friends diagnosis. depending on your cell phone provider you can call to have the spam texts blocked or it cab be a setting on your phone. I have at&t so I had to call. I was getting spam texts sent from emails. hope u can get it fixed and hope u can reconcile with your friend
mentalissues 12
How could you not tell after days….? I could understand the next day forgetting and then realize it later on that night or the next morning but more than that?