A friend of mine from high school (We'll call him James) and I have been planning on renting a house for about 6 months now. We started looking for a place last year, but money got tight for him and we put it off for awhile. Well, James just told me that he is moving in was another friend of his.

Now, I wouldn't be so mad except that James' friend is a habitual drug abuser and has a history of disappearing for some time with no contact. There are very few people who like him because he's shifty and untrustworthy and tends to drag people he's around down with him. James has only known this guy for about 5 months, and what pisses me off even more is that this guy asked James to roommate with him just 4 days ago. He ****ing threw out 6 months of planning and possibly 6 years of friendship for this douchebag.

So now I have to start looking for single room apartments that allow pets again (ughhh). Guess this is why everyone always says to not move in with your best friend.

Who knows, it might be a blessing in disguise.

So what does this new "friend" have that you don't have.

Unless, they are secretly ...gay?

This new friend has crack. Duh.

DRUGS.

But seriously, what a douchebag.

Yeah, wow. Sounds like you're right about the blessing in disguise.

I wanna move out. I don't have any crack though.

For some reason, when it comes to housing plans, people always turn into such douchebags and do the stupidest things. I don't know what it is about it, but it makes normally responsible people screw over their friends.

well did you confront James about this?

Of course I did, it consisted of
Me - "Why do you want to move in with him? Because his parents are giving him a house?"
Him - "Yes and no"
Me - "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
Him - "Let's talk about this some other time."

Then he refuses to talk about it. Every time I try to bring it up, he claims "See, this is why I asked you if it was okay with you so you wouldn't get mad."

And by that he means he asked me yesterday what I would do if he got a house with the other guy instead of me, where I proceded to tell him all the same stuff James has told me about the guy (the things I mentioned in the OP and some other less nice things I'd rather not mention). I never said I wouldn't be mad, all I said was I wasn't gonna tell him what to do.

Punch him in the face

edit: I'm not wearing any underpants.

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Sounds to me like you were both hesitating to commit to each other before and so James got tired of waiting for you to make the first move and went with his other boyfriend.

It sounds like it...
I lived with my best friend and another friend for about a year and a half. Ugh...drama, drama, drama, and no cleaning on their part. >_<

You forgot to mention you kind of hate them now.

Your friend is a user.

This is what the MBS was made for.

GO GO GO.

if your friend wants to move in with a shifty drug abuser its probably because hes a shifty drug abuser too... you just hadn't noticed. I recently went through the same thing, except my friend just decided to buy a house and im moving in... which probably is a bad idea too but i really have nowhere else to go right now.

Well, you sound very out of shape about this ****. Its almost like a little girl screaming match, only its not over how awesome "Panic at the disco" is, its about where you live. I think that bringing in other ppl on anything that you can do alone is dumb, all other ppl do is **** everything in the whole world up. You dont need someone who is gunna bail after forever of friend ship over some druggie that he just met thats getting a house, so **** em, you can probibly find better friends that arnt gunna spaz out on you. Obviously money and possessions are more imortant to your friend so if thats the care you DONT want to share a room with him, let alone a house or apartment........

"ppl"?

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yes, you may

kirbs, can i publish the midget pr0n pics you sent me?

[and get in my stickam, you scoob.]

This, and knowing that town, maybe even a producer. Personally, if that's the situation, I wouldn't doubt if he's gotten heavily into drugs himself. Knowing you, that's something you don't want to live with.

Do I know this..."James"...also? Just curious.

At least this relationship is falling apart before you get locked into a rental with him.

Everyone is right, move on and find yourself another man, this one is trouble.

Has anyone ever told you 'You're not funny and you should choke on something sharp'? Because if not let me be the first.

He's a thread killer. Well, I'm an abuser so...

Oh no! He's a rejector, you must protect yourself from harm.

It's alright. You've now been separated by external factors from the immediate company of someone who obviously has priorities not centered on loyalty. Which is ok, but not what you were looking for, obviously. Move on, get a flat alone or a new roomie, and rock out!