I work at a store in my community and the other day I was ringing through an elderly man’s items, when he introduced me to his grandson. This man is a regular customer who is always very nice and polite to me. He said, “I would like you to meet my grandson Tyler”. I looked up at him and thought, “Hmm, he looks just like Jason’s roomate” and I replied that it was nice to meet him. Jason is a guy I dated before and we kind of had a “friends with benefits” type deal going on. I thought it would eventually move along to become a relationship, but I wasted my time. Anyways, I had only seen pictures of Tyler on the internet and talked to him on the phone. There were pictures of Jason and Tyler together obviously.

Then as I was ringing the items through, I thought back to conversations I had on the phone with Jason while he was living with his roomate, Tyler. There were a couple times that Jason called me drunk out of his mind and I told him to give the phone to Tyler because I needed to talk to someone reasonable and in the correct state of mind. Tyler always seemed very nice…until one night. This night, Jason and I were having a fight because I got angry with him a lot because of the fact that we weren’t in a relationship. I just started thinking about all of the bad things he had done to me or said and I was blowing up at him this night. So when I called Jason, Tyler picked up Jason’s phone and started yelling and cursing at me. He said to leave Jason alone and that, “He was out f*cking some other chick”…something along those lines. Tyler started calling me names and quite frankly, he sounded like a crazy person.

Anyways he was going on and on and made me cry. So I just hung up. Then I started to get so angry that I called back, when I probably should have just left it alone. I don’t remember what I said exactly, but I later found out that Jason told Tyler what to say to me. I guess Tyler is not to blame. They were both drinking and Jason put the words in Tyler’s mouth. How lame and immature they both are is what I now realize. Anyways back to the store… After telling Tyler it was nice to meet him, I looked back at him and gave him a strange look and I could tell he knew who I was. He seemed both embarrassed and surprised.

Then as they were heading out the door, I saw Tyler’s last name on his sweater. It is funny how things happen. This nice elderly man who I see almost every day I work is Tyler’s grandfather, a guy from a different province who told me off over the phone without having met me. Hmm..strange. I would have liked to squish his bread or something. lol Just joking, Jason is the real jerk here.