On the most recent episode of DH&J (459, Electric Meat with Kal McRaven). Hank said there’s a button that makes it so he can’t go faster than the speed he was driving when he hit it. I would assume Hank knows what the cruise control is but… that sounds like cruise control? Anything else it might be?
I have a friend who literally just gave me the silent treatment for about three weeks. For much of it, I didn't even know she was angry with me. I just thought she had decided to be a really shitty friend until another friend mentioned in passing that she was upset. I'm sure everyone here can understand how stressful that was.
So after about 3 weeks she finally messages to tell me that she wanted to let me know why she was upset "out of respect for our friendship" and I'm thinking... a little late to respect our friendship, but okay. And it turns out that she was upset over a pretty innocuous comment which she had misunderstood as a joke at her expense when it was actually a genuine question. Even if it had been a joke at her expense, no one I've talked to can figure out how 3 weeks of the silent treatment is a reasonable reaction.
I feel like, at the beginning, when I thought she had decided she didn't want to be my friend anymore, I was constantly upset and anxious, but then, after 3 weeks, I kind of accepted the friendship was over and now that she wants to talk about it, I just don't feel like I care. The only reason I even feel like I should is because we are part of the same friend group and it's making things weird for us to not talk to each other, so I'm going to do it.
It feels like this whole thing took so long that my brain just kind of filed her away. Like it's not even like I feel mad at her. Most of the time I can't even remember I'm supposed to talk to her. If we were just friends on an individual level and there wasn't a friend group issue, I feel like she'd have fallen out of my brain completely by now.
Anyone else have this experience? Where like your brain just kinda lets someone go whether you meant to or not?