Failure is the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
-Unkown
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Reuniting after a few years off of friendship, she and I reconnected. Honestly couldn’t remember why we stopped talking! So we started hanging out again and decided to take a trip together to the Manitou Incline in Colorado. Our trip started out not too bad, besides the typical female crabbiness from someone not used to traveling. All was good. But things took a turn for the worse right on the incline day 3 in front of EVERYONE! I have never been so embarrassed LOL. She was upset how much I was on my phone recording everything, vlogging, etc. Which I can UNDERSTAND. But she never once communicated it with me until she just about blew up. After she cooled off, I decided to try to embrace the trip and work things out. We moved on, I apologized a few times for my phone use, paid for dinner that night and all was good… sorta.. Anyways, the next day we hit up the pterodactyl cliff jump. After that we started our way home and thats when things went COMPLETELY South. She wanted to check out a location, but after a wrong 2 hr wrong turn towards home and the huge incident, I suggested we skip it and head to our next destination. She agreed. What I didn’t know was she really didn’t agree. We didn’t talk for about 6 hours after that. Finally I started bugging her about what’s wrong. She continued to ignore me until again she blew up using the most vulgar language. I admit I have a habit of interrupting but I am extremely willing to work it out and I never use names. It was NOT going well. I decided at that point to say either we need to figure this out, become friends and move on or we need to skip our next stop and go home. Anyways, that attempt failed badly and she refused to let me drive after that. At 4 am she pulled into a rest stop and that’s when I again attempted to take a turn to drive. She beyond bloody mary flipped out calling me the worst of names and saying the worst of things, threatening to leave me at a random rest stop in a random state in the middle of the night. After that I kept my mouth shut. I couldn’t leave the car due to being terrified she would drive off and leave me so I didn’t use the restroom for about 12 hours and had nothing to eat for about 28 hours. Finally we arrived home that is when she tried being civil again. Talking about exchanging the photos and what not. After that, she tried to rekindle our friendship on multiple reach-outs all which I ignored each attempt. I can never understand why someone refused to work out a friendship on such a trip, but attempts to reach out and fix it after. ANYWAYS, all is great, lessons are not learned. But big tip, NEVER go on a trip with someone you just became re kindled w/ LOL!