Soda! My best friend in the whole world!!

                               by: Leia/Apathy


As  many  of  you  don't  know,  I  called  Soda  "Lamer" on irc one day!  He
overreacted  a  bit  and  sent me an "NASTY" e-mail, and I guess it's time to
tell my version of the story!

First of all I just want to say that this word did pop up together with other
words  like  "I don't like you", and things like that.  This to illustrate my
opinion  about  him!   The  word lamer didn't show up at first, it was just a
word  I  used  to  show him some ironic tone in the middle of it all.  Then I
went off to do some other things..

Well.. To start from the beginning of;

In the early fall of '96 I was visiting a friend.  This friend had just got a
letter  from  a guy who at that time called himself "Psycho" and curious as I
always am I read (some of) this letter.

In  this  letter  I  then  read  something  that made me think "what a stupid
person",  he had described his latest "Drinking-Experience", It was something




with  a cab, and some more stuff..  The thing that was most silly though, was
the  way  he was describing it!  He was under the impression that he had been
drinking  a  lot,  and  that  he was a little hero!  (He was 15 at the time).
Something he neither had or was.  I remember I answered some of his letter in
a  letter  to  him  from  my friend, and then I settled with that!  (This was
mostly just for fun, like all my personal attacks are :)

Then  the  next letter came.  This time he answered some of my friends letter
by asking lotsa stupid questions about me!

This was actually the time I decided I didn't like him..

For  the  next year or so, I luckily got to meet this guy several times first
one  at  tg97,  there  he  sat making a wild-demo that I never saw on the big
screen.   (Maybe  I  wasn't  paying  attention?)  I didn't bother to tell him
anything about how I looked at him, as I thought it was not that important.

The  next  was  a  "party" taking place at Strife's place, but I still didn't
bother to tell him how stupid I thought he was!

Then  we came to kg97.  I remember some shit he had made to the compos..  And
that I thought he was completely stupid!

Then it was the summer vacation, nothing big happened.  But then after I went




to my school I got to hear lotsa strange stories of him, guess something went
to  his  head,  because  he  got  even  more stupid than before after all the
stories I heard.  At this time he had quit apathy.

Then  at Distance '97 I think he was trying to be polite and good to everyone
giving us pizza and stuff..  (Yep, I ate, so what?) !!  but I didn't like him
any more after that, in case you wondered!

After  this  party  I  continued  to hear lotsa strange stories, like calling
Numen  "Skinhead"  in  Retro (Why the hell did you do that?)..  Finally I had
gotten enough of this and desided to tell him this the first time I met him.

This  finally  happened  at Irc one night.  And then I told him I didn't like
him, and !!!"lamer"!!!  and so on.

Now  he  reacted  and  sendt me an very unpleasant e-mail.  I reacted to this
with a big laugh,and gave it to some of my friends, so they could laugh to :)

Then  I  went  of  IRC  again, and when I got back they had reacted the way I
thought  and  spread  the  e-mail,  and also had made some fun of Soda in the
topic.  They were also a bit angry at him and talked about how to make fun of
him.  I went of and back again, there he was and we had an interresting chat.

At  TG98  I  then met him again.  To show him my way of fighting, making some




fun  of  him,  and  making some joke of it all..  I acted like I was going to
strike him down all the time, and talked ironically to him.  The ultimate one
was  when he slept, and I suddenly got the Idea I should write Lamer at small
notes,  and  place  them  at his face!  He reacted to this with telling me he
hadn't  seen  them, (I asked).  But later on I heard that he had told WiseGuy
(And  probably  some  others)  about it on irc.  And that he thought this was
Childish.

To  this  I have only one thing to say:  I looks like you can't take a simple
joke.   Maybe  you  have no humour?  When telling my none-scene-friends about
it,  they  almost  laughed themselves to death.  I also want to say that it's
more  childish  to  deny any knowledge about certain things to the person who
have  actually done it!  And then later tell anyone of it.  Girls have a term
for this way of talking.  and I'm sure you know it!

For  the  future  I  hope  we  can be something like "friends", (Read:  Don't
Argue)  Guess  the  song  coming out of my speakers just now DON'T illustrate
this.   (Let  me entertain you - Robbie Williams..  Oh man what kinda crap is
on the Radio Today????????  :) but who cares?

I  guess I'll get some answers to this, but I don't really care.  I am what I
am.  But I don't like Soda!