Staying in Contact or the Lack Thereof

This is a rant, because it is nearly midnight, and the later it gets the less restraint I have when it comes to speaking my mind.

About a week ago I called a friend of mine, left a message to give me a call back. She has yet to return my call. This person has admitted to me on several occasions that she is bad at returning phone calls. That is, anyone outside of family or someone really important. She will eventually give me a call, often two or three weeks later, and usually lead off with the fact she is horrible at returning phone calls and apologize.

She is not the only one. I know a couple other people (girls in fact) that have also said the same line of "I am bad at returning phone calls." when I call them and they do not return calls for weeks on end. They know they are bad at it, I have been told they have had other people tell them the same.

Do they do anything about it? No. It is a bad habit that annoys and polarizes the people that try to keep in touch with them. What kind of message are these girls giving their friends? Basically: "You are not that important, and I will call you when I have nothing better to do or the guilt finally gets to me."

Honestly I do not know why I even bother talking to them anymore. I guess I really have already written off two of them, and the third and last is well on her way. Perhaps it is just me they do not want to talk to. That is fine, but taking the cowards way out and ignoring a person is simply uncouth and onerous. I hope that their other 'friends' also decide to stop calling, and then these girls will realize they have no friends outside the one 'best friend' and family. Not that it will fix their bad habit.

Just one more example why most girls are too bothersome to deal with.