Incredibly Crazy Girl-True Story

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Okay, this girl (call her A) is absolutely insane and we've been in one class of each other for the past three years (junior now)...she thinks that b/c we're in all honors that we're in direct competition?! she is VERY competitive and manipulative, and has basically no friends because she's screwed over many a person. She has screwed me over in the one class we have, pretty royally, but that's not the issue.
So anyway, this year, we have a free together, and as most CCer's know, I'm not the most popular person at my school, so I was fine with sitting alone. She walks over and sits down across from me at the table and makes a little small talk. I'm like ??? but I let her sit there. She sees my organization system (= putting all my subjects in a single binder...not much organization there...I organize at home with typed notes anyway) and doesn't talk much.
Then, we're taking the same computer class, and the teacher says to partner up. I immediately picked a girl I knew was a friend of a friend, and we agreed to be partners. The teacher goes around asking partners, and since she came before me or the friend or friend, A names me as her partner! Fine, I hope she'll do a good job b/c she's obsessed with grades b/c it is a HUGE project...However, I end up spending 4 straight classes typing, etc, and really working while she ends up STARING at a BLANK screen. When I asked her if she could do anything (multiple times...it was obvious that she wasn't helping on purpose) she was like No. I have <em>stuff</em> to do. Then, I asked A if she could do ONE tiny thing I hadn't figured out yet (i suck at macs...) but she makes a big fuss and tells the teacher that I hadn't been doing anything-luckily I diffused the situtation and pointed out the stuff I did.
Annoyed, once she sat down at my table at the free, I walked away from her and sat at a table by myself-no confrontation. No like "Biatttch!"-I was trying to be mature about it.
So, this week, she has gone from an anal 4-subject notebook (she special ordered them and was proud of them last year and frosh) for each subject to one binder of everything. And she has sent me this message over facebook:
"my name, i think that you were acting inappropriately in free the other day just because i was somewhat giving you the cold shoulder in computer</p>

<p>and you put me on your limited profile
its time to grow up maybe?"</p>

<p>somewhat funny? Gosh I hate highschool. She obviously screws me over and tells me to grow up?!
Any advice on what I should do?</p>

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<p>Get a calendar and do a countdown until the end of the year. (should be @115 days now) In class everyday say to yourself I only have to deal with you for “X” more days. It’s more positive than retaliating on facebook</p>

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<p>Hm, kill her. or maybe talk to the teacher.</p>

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<p>Walk away. Just walk away.</p>

<p>Talk to the teacher about the project though. </p>

<p>Take her off the limited profile and then don’t respond to anything she does. It’ll blow over.</p>

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<p>lol, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE people like that. Because I can play their game too. >:].</p>

<p>Tell the teacher she hasn’t been doing anything.</p>

<p>Worse case scenario “hey A, I’m sorry I can’t do work right now..my mom just died”</p>

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<p>1) Avoid her at all costs.
2) Block her from FB.
3) Yeah tell teacher about problem with project</p>

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<p>A famous sculptor was once hired to make a huge statue for a city in Italy (the details escape me, this is an old story, sorry). Normally, this was just another job for the sculptor–he had more than enough talent, time, and materials to do the job. But through some political connections, the brother of one of the city councilmen managed to get himself assigned to the job as well, serving as the ‘partner’ of the sculptor. The brother had absolutely no experience with sculpting, and never once went to see the sculptor to offer support or help. The sculptor was incensed because he knew that if he did all of the work as normal, he would get only half the money and half the pay. </p>

<p>As the deadline drew near for the statue, the sculptor suddenly took very ill, bedridden with a mysterious disease. The city council became very nervous, because the statue was meant to be the centerpiece of the town, created to celebrate a very important holiday. The sculptor apologized profusely, coughing all the while, but then pointed out that the brother, his ‘partner’, was still healthy and able to work. The city council agreed.
Soon, it became obvious that the brother was completely useless, and the council realized the problem. The sculptor miraculously recovered soon after the brother was fired, and the statue was finished without blemish.</p>

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<p>^ Moral of the story, to OP, be sick on the due date and create havoc/panic for the b**ch aka A.</p>

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<p>i was thinking the same thing, Play chicken. you should have done all your work at your house and not told her anything. even arrange for you to tell the teacher you did nothing infront of her and hand in your stuff later. she sounds like the type to all night it the day before and cry the next day if she doesn’t.</p>

<p>reply on facebook: “hoop off”</p>

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<p>you guys rock. I might just be VERY SICK when it’s due</p>

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<p>Text her and be like “COMBO BREAKER” (she won’t get it cause its a nerd thing to say if you play Mortal Kombat). no matter what you have to think of something Awesome to say!!!</p>

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<p>To OP, remember, when life gives you problems, RUN AWAY. MUAHAHAHA.</p>

<p>Seriously, just fight back indirectly like that. </p>

<p>=) good luck. Hope she gets off you.</p>

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<p>I hate high school. Can I just test out now? Btw, wonderful idea.</p>

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<p>I would just confront her… in public if you want to embarrass her. But really, just to get it off your chest and make it clear that you don’t want a relationship with her.</p>

<p>Also - just curious - how exactly did she screw many people over? Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t think of anything a classmate could do or say about me that would have a significant effect.</p>

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<p>"She has screwed me over in the one class we have, pretty royally, but that’s not the issue. "</p>

<p>RETURN THE FAVOR MAN! what did she do?</p>

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<p>^^Don’t do what futureguy210 said. If you do screw her over, you’re becoming the same person as her, and she can in turn have an advantage over you because you screwed her over.</p>

<p>Act with her with as much straightforwardness and poise as possible. The problem with doing all the work at your house would result in her telling the teacher that ‘you didn’t let her work with you and you wanted to take all the credit for yourself’ so you’ll just get in trouble and maybe have to redo the project over.</p>

<p>My advice is since you’ve already confronted her there’s no point confronting her again. Talk to the teacher after class and explain honestly the situation…like what you have just said above. I’m sure the teacher would understand. If the teacher still insists that you and her have to work together, then just do all the work as normal, but be sick on due day. OR on the due day, tell her to present it, in front of the teacher, so she doesn’t have time to back off. If she hasn’t been doing any work, it will show. If she nearly messes up the presentation, take over, and explain everything showing that she didn’t do shiit and you did. </p>

<p>Best advice is tell the teacher everything though. I was in the same position as you many times and confronted my parents about it. My dad said that in the long run, these projects are supposed to teach people about the subject, knowledge which you will know later on, and she won’t…and in college it’ll show that she doesn’t know shiit.</p>

<p>Don’t put her on your limited profile though. just delete her as a friend and ignore all inbox messages, saying you’re facebook profile is ‘down for maintenance..’ i mean seriously what does she need you on facebook for anyway? To look at your million pictures everyday?</p>

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<p>“Act with her with as much straightforwardness and poise as possible. The problem with doing all the work at your house would result in her telling the teacher that ‘you didn’t let her work with you and you wanted to take all the credit for yourself’ so you’ll just get in trouble and maybe have to redo the project over.”</p>

<p>the teacher seems to know what he has done and what shes had the chance to do. i don’t think that bit would work. and i told him to do nothing just like she is and not tell her what he is doing.</p>

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<p>

ditto.
that’s why you gotta be friends with the teacher, so s/he’ll always believe YOU.</p>

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<p>Screw her over. It’s her fault that she’s not doing any work, and you never asked to be her partner so you wouldn’t be “becoming the same person as her.” Tell her hat you expect her to do but do those parts yourself anyway. If she doesn’t do them then turn in the project with only your name on it and tell the teacher you gave her the opportunity to help. Also, if she refuses to do anything pretending to be sick on the due date is a nice idea to give a jolt to her system.</p>

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<p>well to answer your questions, I’m not even her facebook friend–I’m actually really hard to find b/c I don’t list my last name and I have a common name AND I don’t show in common search. The reason I CHANGED the privacy settings was because she actually was semi-stalking me last year on facebook. I went to a summer program, and joined their group, and then the next day (even though we weren’t friends, she could see my profile b/c of the same network), she was all like, “Have fun in <em>(place where summer program is)</em>.” and she immediately signs up for a 10-day summer program the next day (not taking credit for having influenced this, just showing that it could be as most people in my school are discouraged from summer programs and know nothing). </p>

<p>Anyway, She had to have gone through every single page (20+) of our school’s network! I think she wanted me to retaliate on facebook, because if you see on the bottom it says something like, “Once you send a message to A, she will be able to see your profile for a month”. She’s incredibly manipulative-she’s the type who would see that and deliberately send me a message just to be able to see my pictures/etc. The “not knowing” about the mundane details of my life drives her crazy! </p>

<p>As for screwing ME over, she completely flat out lied about a test (about 20% of our grades) we had in the mutual subject during freshman year. After I was sick one day, she, without me asking, kept saying to me that the test was moved, etc, don’t worry about it, we’re not having it for a while (my teacher isn’t the type to repeat test days every day)…Then, I walk in and realize that we’re having a test and she’s SMIRKING at me. (I was so naive then), but I asked the teacher to give me an extra day because I was sick and THANK GOD let me take it later. </p>

<p>As for other people, she says to people that “oh we should work together on those APUSH outlines”. Then, she gets 2 chapters free, and gives them legit-looking outlines with stuff missing (for example, leaving out all the people, all the terms, and/or all the places) or putting in incorrect information (wrong presidents, cabinet members, etc) just to very subtly mess with people. I’ve heard of at least 5 people getting screwed by this for a test when they realize that they don’t know anything! (and I don’t even talk to most of the people she interacts with) </p>

<p>Friends-wise, she has none. She’s even messed up her own friends-there was a huge blowout in the middle of sophomore year over something she did over a project they all had…</p>

<p>I’m probably going to go to the teacher, explain that I’ve been doing a lot of the work, etc. Likely response-“learning to work together and cooperate is a great skill”. BUT, I’ll go in the mornings (when it’s just her) instead of during the computer class, and do work so she knows it’s just me doing it. Then, I’ll get sick when it needs to be due. When she can’t find where I put the documents and paper to print, it will be a tad obvious she hasn’t done anything.</p>

<p>oh, and I’m a girl, btw</p>