Ever Been THIS Lonely?
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Okay, I know it isn't cool to crap on somebody's broken heart, but this was just too ridiculous to let slide. Allow me to introduce Kevin Waldrum, a 45-year old former rent-a-cop. Waldrum has led an unremarkable life in every imaginable sense save one: he managed to ring up a £91,184 ($140,000 USD) phone bill to a pay-per-minute chat line after his girlfriend dumped him. Naturally, now he's refusing to pay and believes Vodaphone (his cell phone provider) should be shut down for allowing him to ring up such a bill.
‘The Vodafone need shutting down because they're ripping people off left, right and centre,’ he said.
‘I'm not putting all the blame on them but not even multi-millionaires would want to spend this much on a phone bill, surely, so why I have been allowed to go up to £91,000.
‘I admit I rang these numbers and it's partly my own fault but the line should have gone dead before I started to incur such high charges.
‘They must be taking millions from poor people like me.
In fact, Vodafone tried to shut the lovelorn lothario down by disabling his SIM card, but Waldrum just got another one and kept dialing. In a further concession, Vodafone reduced his bill to £29,063, but he still refuses to pay a penny.
We've all done stupid things after being dumped, but this one has to take the cake. My lifelong motto of, "The best way to get over an old lover is to get under a new one" has led me to make some pretty questionable choices post-breakup, but nothing that ever cost me a hundred grand.
Also, I'm oddly gratified to see that ducking responsibility, transferring blame, and a horrendous entitlement mentality are not exclusive to the American continent as I'd previously expected.
So let's hear it, guys. In solidarity with poor Mr. Waldrum, what's the dumbest thing you've ever done after being dumped? Can anyone even come close to this, or is Waldrum just a once-in-a-century supernova of FAIL?
lonely or horny? no and yes.
It's sad the plight of males these days. Men with backbones and thick skin are few and far between. but leaves a great dating market :)
Do they not have hookers where he lives?
hooked up with my ex's best friend a couple nights after we broke up....that went really well
i'm guessing the bold means the back door was open that night?
im guessing with his explanation this now means he went black and didnt go back.
Sounds like words spoken from experience...
Painful, painful experience. When I'm into someone, I have the blinders on. I hate the silent treatment just as much as anyone else (whether I'm giving it or being subjected to it), but your peace of mind is more valuable.
2 wtf?
hahahaha
I have no good reason to be stumbling around these threads right now, but this made me laugh so god damn hard
Amen, can't even see how someone in this situation can rationalize this. Same as McDonald's making you fat, if you don't want to be fat than order a salad at McDonald's instead of a cheeseburger! Or even better choose on of the thousand other places to eat that has healthy choices.
After a breakup I tend to just drink a lot, which creates its own problems.
Eddie, I'm curious...what's the dumbest thing you've ever done after a breakup?
Freshman year of college, first month: met an awesome guy, had an awesome fling. Broke up. Go over to his frat for a party (bad decision). He talks to me flirtatiously. I start downing immense amounts of alcohol in some lame attempt to be a wild party girl and impress him/his buddies.
Ended up dancing on tables and making good use of the poles they had in their basement. No more needs to be said.
That is a pretty pathetic move for a break up. The worst is when girls start breaking your stuff, smashing in your windows, getting into your personal email account... All that stuff is now in the past. Solution is the same.
In terms of a relationship, no clue, will leave that to other guys for discussion
The worst story for sure was when a girl decided to break all the windows in my apartment with a hammer, expensive lesson to be learned.
Notably, also way back in college did get burned by a girl (cheated) and that made me a bit psycho so I started lifting weights and drinking heavily and doing a lot of drugs. Instead of that if I get burned I just go radio silent and look for a new girl. The truth is he USA is really just a hook up culture now.
I would assume he bought new windows
White knight
know those feels brah
@ you are not the father
So if you've been around the street a while the read between the lines is that she was more of a gold digger type. If you keep a gold digger around for too long bad things happen fast. Learned the hard way. Basically they are attractive and can sweet talk their way into your place through security no problem.
So after the incident the lease was up in a few months so I moved. In addition I learned that as soon as the girl starts pushing you for exclusivity (and you think she is a gold digger) you gotta cut those ties then and there.
She smashed my windows, I called the cops, luckily she was caught on tape getting in illegally (sweet talking the guard) so I never took blame for it. Got some angry emails, phone calls, random "notes" near by the office etc etc the full psychopath nine yards.
That's why point 4 stands, once you cut off, cut off for good if you got dumped or if you break up, need 100% silence. Bad memories, lesson learned. It is what it is.
$140k is a LOT of phone sex
Hahahahahaha! Can't believe he said all that shit in spite of this fact...
Come on, Eddy! You've lived in Europe long enough to know that their sense of entitlement is even worse!
Too true, too true.
@youarenotthefather
Yeah it was along those lines of cheating/fighting bc she wasn't getting what she wanted etc. Could do a long post on gold diggers.
No pregnancy scare though.
The last thing you want to do is...
Catch a kid.
No cure for that one.
inb4 babynames.com
sloots gonna sloot brah...the dude in the story sounds full potato. Pay to talk to sloots, not even once.
Nothing like some wanna-be hardass college kids on an anonymous forum to provide free entertainment. Although, I was most likely a lot like them in college, so I probably shouldn't throw stones.
I meet/start seeing literally the girl of my dreams final semester of undergrad. Things go well for a bit, but since we are both stubborn metalheads, we are unable to agree on what we are going to be.
She is now with someone who doesn't even know how to perform a proper headbang.
Drank over her for the last time over the weekend and go to complete radio silence. I wish I did it sooner. Painful lesson learned.
@ grouptherapy
If she cheated then it would have been easier. It's almost better if they cheat because then they are not emotionally invested in you. That means they would not break all your sh*t and try to stalk you.
@SirTrades in the cards. Assuming you've had a few as well, we all run into them on a long enough time line. It's tough out there. (ITOT)
Thank god I haven't done anything that would make the news. Just pining over the first girl I went out with. It took seeing another guy doing the exact same thing to realize just how pathetic it was.
@ITF and Playboys
I think that the main reason nasty breakups happen is people don't realize that relationships are two-way roads. If someone wants to get away from you, it's probably your fault for either not being what they want or being something they don't want; you can't say that that isn't your problem either, because it's you who wants the relationship. Pain in that situation comes from a lack of understanding that you aren't the person who can satisfy them, and in that case you must ask yourself, "do I even want to be the person who can satisfy her(him for chicks)?" Many times, the answer is no - the person they want is something completely different from what you want to be.
It works the other way, as well. If you leave someone, you have to understand that you've put them in a vulnerable position, and they might act crazy. But you aren't allowed to call them crazy or to judge them based on that - what they do is a reflection of how they felt about you, and if you can't sympathize with how they feel, it was you who never had a proper understanding of who they are and what they're capable of. If you really think she's a "gold digger," then it's your fault for getting so involved in the first place. It isn't her fault for "sweet talking" you; be a man and admit that you fucked up by letting her get too close.
In short: dudes, stop being pussies and take responsibility for what we do to women. That's what women mean when they talk about "men."
And to any ladies reading this, don't be afraid to lay shit out for us. Much as I hate to say it, a lot of our male brethren are simply grown up children; force them into adulthood with a good "fuck you, you can't handle a woman yet." (this does not apply to ITF and Playboys lol)
How's that beta-male lifestyle treating you? Do you feel better now by painting other men as irresponsible pussies to show how "grown" you are? Take your cape off
You should come drink if you're in NYC. We can see who the beta male is then.
I did find $5 stuffed in my shirt the next day though.
fucked her sister and took pictures. I was also hoping to bang her mom too, but that was no dice.
niiiiiiccccceeeeeee!
worst thing that happened to me on the receiving end was getting my car keyed like a saber tooth tiger just used it as a claw sharpener. I still don't think it was any fault of mine because we weren't exclusive and she knew that from the get go.
I guess when a chick said "I am gonna let you have something special tonight and you're gonna be all mine" should be a huge warning sign, but I was too horny and dumb to care at that moment. The "special" was letting me raw dog her.
sorry esurance, it did cost you a pretty penny to repaint my ride.
Girl admits to getting sloshed and trying to sleep with a dude at a party then in the same thread we have a guy saying we should take heat from women... Then said guy is apparently going to go out with another WSO member to spit some game at randoms in some sort of "player dual" out in the city.
Can't get more comical than this.
@ST monkey, no worries it's only going to get worse, keying your car is a cheap fix, you'll get some real crazies coming in soon. It's a numbers game.
You're right, I should have been clear. He wouldn't say that in person is the point.
On the topic of taking heat from women: yeah, you're making me look like I can't write lol. The point is to realize that your game can be dangerous to girls who can't handle what you might do, so chicks doing crazy stuff is to be expected. The other point (that wasn't at you) is to acknowledge that being butthurt over a girl is useless because 90% of the time a breakup is a good thing.
Only on WSO...
^^ Not sure if that was sarcastic but will happily throw up a long post on gold digger situations. As of now though it will have to wait a week as we await certification, large amounts of monkey shit would be thrown with a gold digger post + no clout to back, rightfully so as well. Hopefully this will be cleared up by mid next week. Here to help people.
I wasn't talking about you as I assume from your other posts that you are not a college aged person. I was referring to SirTrades remark about the interesting comments sections on those types of posts. I meant no offense to you, sir.
Started trying to make money in the stock market
Zing.
how the heck did this reach the forums? WSO = Aunty Angie's website? Or are you trying to insinuate that all bankers are lonely?
Here's a gold digger story for you all.
It was during the WSO convention at the Side Bar. I was walking across the bar to get my bag when a girl, who was grinding on a dude, stopped me. She asked me "Where do you work?" while maintaining her dry horizontal boogie with the dude. I told her "" and her eyes sparkled and lit up the bar. She stopped grinding for a few seconds. Then I said "But I just got fired yesterday." She looked at me for a second and then resumed grinding on the dude as if the whole situation never happened at all...
This.... is why I am sticking around after the next conference.
Wow that's rude, what's the other dude's reaction?
Well that sucked...
Initially I imagined him giving a "what the fuck" look, but I actually find it more fun to imagine his eyes lighting up too.
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