Curve ball. It looks as if real life is not as exciting as movies are after all. Larry messaged me last night inquiring what my Facebook status meant. I had set it to "Particle is pretty sure he's been played and should probably seek new friends," earlier that day. I explained to him how I thought I had been played and was upset about it, and he told me that there had been a grand misunderstanding. Yesterday I talked about how I could wrap this whole thing up, but it looks like I was hit by Option C instead.
Of course, I was suspicious about this since he'd been ignoring me for two days already and had gotten so mad at me for nothing. He told me that he and his girlfriend were pseudo-wrestling and things got out of control a little bit when Kate had fallen off of her chair. He'd pushed too hard and knew that so he apologized and everything, but she got upset and left.
The story seems simple enough, but it is at this point that one always has to apply the test of logic and previous experience. Here I will be going through the check list of my thoughts on the subject and why I currently believe him:
1) It is simple. In my experience, I've found that lies tend to be overly complicated compared to real life and they almost always have lots of small plot holes that make them not line up quite right. It isn't always easy to prove it, but one often gets that feeling of "something isn't quite right about it." That leads us to #2:
2) It lines up perfectly. It explains all the weird parts that existed already in the story delivered to me by Kate. It explains why she didn't know if he was mad at her following this incident. She had told me a story where if someone had done what she said, there would be no question of if the person was upset with her. She also didn't have the expected reaction in that case of being mad at him. She was just concerned if he was mad at her. She also continued to stay at his house following the event instead of trying to leave. This all fits with a recreational activity gone wrong.
3) Apology. Kate has since apologized to me for having told people the story she told. She didn't admit lying, but that's not what really happened. She had delivered the story without any context. In that case, it comes across as an assault and not what seems to have actually happened. Oh, you were wrestling? Yeah, that makes a pretty big difference for the story. Larry had also apologized for blowing up at me. He was just mad that she was telling people what she was telling. I'd be upset too if people were telling others I'd assaulted someone if we were just playing Twister and I fell on them.
One and two really should be together for it to mean much, and they certainly are for this case. Number three is just icing on the cake for the believability front. So tentatively I believe that this was all a misunderstanding. That's good for the meat of this story but what about the other peripheral information I covered? I still need to find out what the deal is with:
- Pushing Dane's dad and slashing his car's tire.
- These prior assaults as they were told to me.
- The Applebee's incident. That really seems messed up.
- The dodging me thing I can live with. I don't subscribe to that practice, but lots of people operate that way.
The first two points came from Dane. I'm great friends with the guy, but he understandably has a biased view against Larry here since his wife is dating him. I don't know if perhaps these stories are without context, exaggerated, lies, or completely true. I'll just have to try and find out. In the mean time, I'm content to just know nobody is angry with me.
Life is not a soap opera, but some times it can get damn close.
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