When we first met was in 8th grade (age 13). She was the class clown. She was always loud and obnoxious, but I thought she was hilarious. The other kids didn’t like her. I became her friend because she was fun. She was like an old person in a young person’s body because she had elderly parents and they lived in an elderly building. Have you heard of the comic Don Rickles? Imagine a 13 y/o but with his comedy routine!

But as we grew up she didn’t mature. Instead she got really out there and not funny. I’m ashamed to tell many things here. One thing she did I couldn’t stand at the end was she’d harass waiters when we were in restaurants. She’d joke with them but in a very insulting way. She said shocking things. She would even harass people at other tables! Then she said she was ‘walking on eggshells’ with me because I needed her to act like a polite adult, lol.

She had developed a gambling problem in later years. That’s why she started asking her friends for money. She’d never pay it back. I stopped giving it to her because I didn’t want to enable her addiction. Yeah, she really was a user in the later years.

One last time with her at a restaurant with my youngest son, she went off on me in a barrage of insults (unprovoked, I was even paying for dinner!). She was purposely trying to make me look bad to my son.

Why do you think your friend became so enraged?