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chutzpahSat 12/01/08 11:53

I can't decide whether this is a serious moan or not. So I'm not going to make a drama out of a crisis, and if I put it here, people are allowed to call me a snob....

My friends are beginning to do my head in for a really snobbish reason. Basically, I have four close friends who live near I do. Two of them are students, surviving on bursaries (so sub-minimum wage). Another works for a charity in a relatively unskilled job, so earns a pittance, and the other works for the local council in a relatively skilled job, but still earns crap. I earn the most out of the five of us, and also have the least amount of outgoings, having nearly paid off my student debt, not owning a car, etc etc.

However, I'm beginning to find our friendship getting somewhat stale, for the simple fact we don't seem to do much other than occasionally go to the pub or go to the cinema. I've tried organising other stuff (we've got two theatres, a comedy club, and the Varieties show here in Leeds) but there's the constant "I can't afford it" issue. With one friend I agreed to go on a weekend break to Amsterdam. She then pulled out saying she couldn't afford to go, which pissed me off. She then added insult to injury by saying later on that actually she could afford to go, but not until April - at which point the costs of everything doubled (it's peak season) meaning I couldn't.

This in itself wouldn't be too bad - but even when I try to do free stuff (for example walks round the West Yorkshire Sculpture Park), I'm often stood up.

It's really pissing me off. They're lovely people, but just too fucking unreliable. So. If there's anyone out there who fancies befriending a lonely fat puff with a taste for theatre, comedy, rock music (seriously - I need someone to go to gigs with) and has the budget to be able to go - our operators are waiting to take your call.

That sounds truly desperate. I'm more bothered about the moaning.......

#76006Sat 12/01/08 11:57

It sounds like you're complaining because they're unreliable, not because they don't earn as much or more money than yourself - perhaps you need to address that issue?

There's nothing you can do about the amount of money they earn, but you can encourage them to be a little less tardy.

I imagine you've tried your best to be as flexible as you can when it comes to meeting up with them; so it's a tricky situation to get out of -but if they mean that much to you, you need to sit down with them and have it out.

Low salaries are not an excuse for simply being late to a meeting.

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