I've Got Friends In Gluteny Places

[conniebky]

First off, I found somthing yummy. gluten-free S'moreables Graham Crackers by Kinnikinnick ( that name always reminds me of Kinnicky from Grease). I put peanut butter on them and they are....drum roll.... SOFT!

Ok, so my daughter went to the market. I made a list of specifics. She brought back Campbell's Soup and cookie dough ice cream. I didn't act like much, but it hurt my feelings. My mom is SOOOO lactose intolerant, and she gets the same kind of thing, people painting butter on rolls, and telling her, "oh, it's just a little bit, it won't bother you."

I'm going to ask her if it hurts her feelings, cuz she wouldn't just come out and say if it did. It's like, people think, oh, they're diabetic, NO sugar, that, they "get". Other things, notsomuch.

Do you all get tired of being like, "rolling their eyes" ? Or thinking it's not a 'real' problem?

I posted this last night on a different topic,

OMG! I was just coming on here to ask about mexican - me and my girlfriends from high school get together all the time and there's one of them that - we've just NEVER gotten on. Still don't. But we try really hard.

Anyway, we're planning something and have this email going between all of us and they started off with Mexican then they all went on about before or after I get my teeth pulled (I stayed outta that one)

But today I told them it's going to be the end of the Fall before I am healed enough to get my "fake" teeth, so we can go ahead and have supper now.

Then today the one I don't get on with writes and goes, "I don't care about teeth, I don't care about wheat and/or gluten, we need to get this planned NOW."

.....I was like....dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! She's just a stinker if ya ask me. She shoulda just wrote "I don't care about Connie and her goofy issues" I didn't reply, but I know the other ones ain't gonna appreciate that comment one bit.

Sorry you all, but boy I needed to get that off my chest. And I'm babysitting, so I got no one else to complain to right now. It is SO not hard to be nice. I remember I couldn't wait to get outta high school so everyone would be grown ups. What a laugh.

[curlyfries]

Wow

I bet your other friends are giving her an earful! You can just sit back quietly and be the bigger person

[GlutenFreeManna]

Your thread titles are always so funny Connie

Too bad we can't just laugh at rude friends (well we can, but it's not really funny).

Sorry your friends are so rude and clueless. I haven't encountered any rude friends yet, but I'm taking the route of least resistance so far. If I can't have any input in where it is and I know I can't eat safely I just don't go. (For example: friend A invites me and several others out to eat at a pizza place where I know there is nothing safe. I just reply, "sorry I can't come. There's nothing safe for me to eat at XXX. Now if y'all ever want to go to XX. I'll be there." I try to give a comparable place to go that has a gluten free menu. But I don't let it bother me if they don't change their plans to accommodate me. Sometimes it's a large group and the decision was made weeks ago (like with my ladies Bible study of 30-40 ladies). Sometimes there are places people want to go that are new or places they have never been but I can't eat there. I understand. But often times it's just a bunch of people getting together at any old spot and they just pick a place they like. If they are close to me and understand they will sometimes change the restaurant choice for me (like my family would never suggest I go to a place where I can't eat, they ask me for suggestions). This illness certainly reveals who your true friends are sometimes. Really good friends care more about spending time with you than they care about eating at a certain place.