I just got a ‘friend invitation’ from someone I don’t know on Facebook who has 872 friends. Some collection huh? Beats my mom’s collection of old newspaper recipes since 1958.
Anyway, I’m sorry, it’s a no. I’m not a collector’s item – but I could put you onto my Ma, if you’d like.
So here’s a list of my own :
If you’re my friend, you gotta earn it, dude (And never call me that) ! Meet over a coupla coffees (and spare me the lecture on my 3 sugars), have a few earth-shattering fights (over an issue you can’t even spell when you’re sober), rush me to hospital after bad prawn curry with me puking all over the back seat of your car, sock someone in the eye because he called me a bad word (something only you can do!), let me fix you up with a blind date and threaten to kill me later.
Do 872 people actually know your deepest darkest fears, like the chicken kabab on your plate may suddenly come to life?
When I change my status line on Facebook, only those who know me will say “Jane has now changed her status to “Jane is a raving lunatic” but hey- isn’t that what she always was?”
My apologies to the 872 – or now 871er ! Put it down to a bad case of Sour Grapes, ok?
And hellooooooo there to my good many good friends on Facebook, and out of it. And a few who are almost there! But first I’ve got to find out if they’re worthy – or rather if the backseat of their car is puke-worthy !
JANE KIDDING. my life as a pretty (bad) mom, worse manager and good survivor, and how to find everything hysterical (strictly in hindsight).
given that you almost killed me with your egg curry...guess i qualify:) you are a craziiiiiieeeeeeeeee raving loooony and that's why i totallu love ya:)
ReplyDeletetrue... we need friends and what would like would be boring without a lunatic friend (before u kill you called yourself that)
ReplyDelete:D :D :D
ReplyDeletehey jaani! i just read the last 4 posts... all in one go... i just loved them...
i loved the in-your-face, take-it-or-leave-it, kick-ass attitude :)
(ahem... don't i qualify too? :P)
keep churning them out like this!
ok ok jane...whens the cuppa coffee happening then? just give me 5 friends who will fight for me and im happy. and haha, now the burning question...whos the one with the 872??!!
ReplyDeleteand you still believe that nut case of your friend on that story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletenow i know when you say you have no time to watch one dvd...hmm well written and i love the ..."Chicken kabab on your plate may suddenly come to life?"... brings back memories he he he... i don't believe you are lunatic... how can you be when you talk so much sense with in depth knowledge of specific facts...i think the world is looony ... like they say its a mad mad world... the attitude and the punch delivered in your note is very cool.
ReplyDelete“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it friendship or love" keep writting jane..... also watch the dvd atleast before iam back or i swear i will......shall leave it to your imagination.
You know what, I see so much of the loony you in your blog and I am loving it, but really will wait to see that in person :)
ReplyDeleteOK Dudess/Dudette ;-). i will take the risk since i don't own a car but then 'over coffee' sigh!. and a typo madam.
ReplyDeleteI have for all of it, except the puking in my car. Do I still qualify? ;-)
ReplyDeletenari/ guru / archana - get your car out ! vins - you're there already - but WHAT typo?
ReplyDeletedugul - you've made me sound more profound than i actually am - hehe !!!
ReplyDeleteand i have seen the dvd, complimented yu on it, and seen the original too, remember
Jane D ..lunatic or not ...I know I "qualify" !!! :-)
ReplyDeleteI love ALL your posts....and by the way...I'm really really FET !
janiee...you are such a lovable loooony ;) this doesnt mean u can use my car....
ReplyDeleteDamn neat jane...keep it gng!! Puke in the backseat of the car sounds familiar, not after bad prawns but after lotsa booze...and she is still my friend!!
ReplyDeleteOh my God! This post really struck home but in a totally unexpected way!
ReplyDeleteFacebook terrifies me... it demands a password and I'm so freakin' fed up of dreaming up corny passwords that no one will be able to hack through, into my useless PC that confounds even me who actually has all the passwords! :P
And the saving of recipes... confession : I'm a compulsive saver of recipes, (and I hate cooking unless its some flamboyant knock-your-nose job-off kind of statement dish ). From cutting out recipes from newspapers / magazines, I've progressed to cutting and pasting from webpages. Hundreds and thousands of them. I'm convinced that if I collect enough, someday I'll magically be transformed into a Betty Crocker-cook-alike. In the meantime, the D drive of my PC is swamped with recipes for dishes I'll never cook.
Just thank your lucky stars that it isnt my prawn curry that's making you puke. Naaah... not likely, chances are that I'd order in if you're hungry.
But the car is always there... if you can put up with dog-hair and Snickers on the seat !
dog-hair and chocolate wrappers on the seat? join the club. though i must confess, the closest i'll get to betty crocker is her cake-mix off the shelf.
ReplyDeleteNow I know why you took so long to add me! :-)
ReplyDeleteFor all the cuppas, most of which i've paid for(expect for a few cheap ones at sukh sagar when u wud never forget ur wallet)I THINK I QUALIFY.....missing all of it.
ReplyDeleteI luv ur sense of humour. Luvd reading it. Luv u lots Janie
ReplyDeleteOK, now you got everyone fighting to be counted as your friend.
ReplyDeleteWhile you're busy with these folks, may play with the boys? All three of them?
wut typo? 'less'?
ReplyDeleteI too qualify.....you puked out of my basanti on the way to Tellicherri when leopard charged at you and a tusker chased me ;-)
ReplyDeleteloooossaaah!!! I miss you :-(
ReplyDeleteloooossaaah!!! I miss you :-(
ReplyDeleteGreat post, even I am very picky about who I befriend on FB, i just don't get it why people who just see you, or interact with you for 5 mins add you as friends and then you don't hear from them again. I used to accept invitations and last year i cleaned my FB account, down to 121 friends/acquaintances. Next clean up due in March, need to get it under 50
ReplyDeleteI must admit meanwhile that my Fb list has gone up to 750 or something. No idea how. How do you clean up without offending people? :(
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