Try and Guess What Happened
Posted on February 25, 2010 | Categories: Friends | Tags: lol
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I never once imagined I’d be shouting “Don’t leave me! Come back, come back!” in an overcrowded dining area as one of my friends left me. You know how when people pretend to walk away from you just to make a point? Well, those people usually come back after taking a few steps away from you. This friend, however, didn’t. He kept marching away and went out the door without a look over his shoulder.
He left me distraught by the entrance of our cafeteria, where I was getting some very strange looks from those in the middle of eating for my dramatic theatrics.
If anyone can guess what happened for said scene to occur, they get a (to be determined) prize. The answer will be revealed in my next entry.
Here are some hints about what the situation involved:
- Study abroad
- Three boys
- Speaking Chinese
- The definition of loyalty
- One increasingly distraught girl (me)
It also was actually a very amusing incident for everyone but me as I was, um, distraught, so I’m excited to see what people come up with as a plausible explanation!
Crissy
(this is going to be wrong, haha)
First off: WOW. That must have been awful :(
Second off, here’s my story: You = the girl. You were going to study abroad with three boys, but you had to learn to speak chinese. You asked your friend to come, but your friend couldn’t speak Chinese and refused, insulted that you wouldn’t stay back with him.
^That was a total guess, and a ridiculous one at that. Are you going to tell us what really happened? teehee :)
Hope whatever it was, you’re okay now, that sounds really harsh :(
Marie
Ah, Manda, that’s awful! Especially in a public place like that.
I really have no idea what happened, but I’m guessing that somehow the speaking Chinese and studying abroad are somehow related.
(Considering, this is tagged as “Lol” I’m guessing nothing that serious happened so I’ll try and make this strange or ridiculous in some way.)
Two of your friends want to study abroad to China, and since you know Chinese they wanted you to teach them. So you’re with the two of them and this other guy, and the two of them start speaking “Chinese”, or a fake version of it, and won’t stop. This other guy gets annoyed and decides to leave, and you tell him that if he leaves he’s not a loyal friend. He leaves anyway, leaving you with these two boys who are still talking gibberish, at which you scream out to him not to leave you.
Yup, that’s my strange interpretation of things.
Melody
I’m going to be so wrong here. :D
You and this boy applied for the Beijing internship together, expecting to be there together. His two buddies, however, tried to persuade him to go somewhere else (possibly English speaking places). He was convinced that China wouldn’t be good for him since he doesn’t speak Chinese. You explained to him that it’s not that hard and that you could teach him. Or maybe brought up that it was a bit of a betrayal and he felt insulted because he felt it had nothing to do with loyalty, and left?
Heh, there you go. That’s an awful thing for him to do though, leaving like that.
By the way I creepy-stalked your uni’s website and noticed HK was one of the excursion locations. COME AND SEE ME.
Manda
I have no plans to go on the HK excursion… because the current plan is to go to HK on my own ;D
Caity
My guess was just going to be similar to what the other commenters guessed. That’s a tricky one. I was also going to guess that it wasn’t too serious also being that you tagged it as “lol.”
I was going to take a stab that one or some of these friends were applying to a study abroad and that you were screaming after that you didn’t want him to leave the rest of you as he wandered off, being silly, of course, because studying abroad is a fun thing to do and he’d be coming back. Also, of course, thinking that he’d giggle at the silly scene and turn around and laugh at it because you weren’t saying “omigosh don’t leave me” to a relationship as is generally the case in situations like that but “omigosh don’t leave me” to go on his overseas endeavor which is dramatic in this certain case, given the circumstances.
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Probably not, but I guessed. Haha.
Damita
Mmmmm okay let me have a go you have three friends who are going to study aboard to learn how to speak Chinese, but you are upset because you have feelings for one??
Jen
I..don’t know if you can speak Chinese, so that complicates things, but I’m only going to assume you do to some extent, so here’s my shot! :P
Two of the boys know how to speak Chinese, as do you. The boy who walked away doesn’t. One of the boys who knows how to speak Chinese wants to study abroad, and you and the two boys who know how to speak Chinese are joking around about how said study abroad boy will interact with all the Chinese people when he goes. The guy who walked away (who you possibly came to the cafeteria with or am about to leave with to go somewhere together) is indignant that he’s been left out of the joke as he doesn’t understand Chinese, and hence stalks off.
Yea. :P
Regina
Okay…
Two boys are studying abroad at the same place that you go to college, and they are Chinese. You speak Chinese, so you talk to them a bit. And they’re talking about… iunno, loyalty? :P Your other friend, who is a guy, leaves and goes because he feels left out, while you’re getting increasingly distraught because those two other boys are being very talkative and making things awkward for you.
I’m probably wrong.
What Actually Happened | breakthesky.net
[...] While many of the guesses as to what happened were very creative, none of them were actually close to the mark. But a common theme was the language ability of myself and the three boys, so I should say that I, as well as the boys, all have an intermediate working knowledge of Mandarin. [...]