It had been a while since  I had a friend request; I pretty much have all the TAs in the department friended and have caught up with all the old people I used to know from various schools and jobs of my past. But then there was an invite, from a girl I knew in high school. She lived in my neighbourhood and rode my bus, so I knew her by association. We had no classes together.

This girl was the kind of person that – in general – no one liked much. She was sort of crude, annoyingly in your face, and obnoxious. Overweight and overbearing, this person was not my friend by any stretch of the word. She was mostly one of those people I “knew of” but didn’t care to “know”.

When I joined Myspace years ago, she found me and friended me. But she, like a lot of other high school people, faded into my list of acquaintances. So when I saw her request on Sunday, I ignored it, weighing my options. She never really bothered me but I saw no real reason to add her. On a whim on Monday, I did it anyway. What a mistake!

Here’s what she sent me the first day after I accepted:

“by chance eclaire from sweetwater short curly hair back then??? if so pls pls becareful after having the baby i was in a coma recently for over a month after having my second one hes 19 mo old now but my appendix was in the proccess of bursting during end of it they though i was in labor so gave me csection 8 days later i eneded back in hospital and 8 days after that they still didnt kjnow what was wrong with me adn finally cut me open and i was only at 2% chance to survive surgery. stayed in coma for over a month was in icu for 2 months. if your right side is hurting bad go get a scan immediately tell them to check yer appendix i dotn want you almost dying lik ei did cause of idiot doctors miss you alot ♥ and my prayers are with you and your family and new one on the way.”

I have a problem with someone I barely know, trying to be my friend, telling me they actually miss me, and then lecturing me. I had posted a status update saying, “So uncomfortable. Almost in pain.” She wrote back: “read the message i sent you is the pain in one place like on right side or all over lower back etc? whats up woman lol dont scare me.”

And I promptly unfriended her.

Not only is her writing atrocious but there’s something very annoying and unnerving about people who really never gave two shits about you pretending to be worried. Some might say this is genuine and I am being a bitch but I don’t need this kind of aggravation this close to labor.