The Importance Of Reading Carefully

Since the moment I got to my gate at the airport, I’ve been making new friends. The first person I met was a girl from the States named Bridget who was going to spend a few months in another part of Korea. We chatted for a while on the way here and talked about possibly visiting each other before she left the country. I started planning my trip to see her a couple of months ago and I invited my friend and ex-roomie from Italy, Jooyeon, to join me…or so I thought. We had an ongoing conversation for about three weeks, discussing the details of the trip and talking about how excited we were to go. I also told her about a mutual friend’s (from Italy) birthday party that weekend and, only when she asked me, “Who’s Ryan?” did I realize that I’d been talking to the wrong Jooyeon the whole time. I had inadvertently invited Jooyeon’s friend, Jooyeon, that I met the night I got here and had only ever talked to in real life for about five minutes. Dumb.

I eventually fessed up to accidentally inviting her and then two days later realized I couldn’t go anyway so the whole thing was really unnecessary.

Then yesterday morning, that very same Bridget was online and I don’t know what is wrong with me that I don’t EVER read last names anymore but I mistook her for my friend Bridget from home and sent her a facebook chat that said “sluttt.” I apologized as soon as I realized who it was but it was fine…she thought it was funny. Seriously though, I either need to not friend people on facebook that I don’t know very well or I need to learn to read. Side note: Bridget (from the plane) is actually coming to visit me next weekend so it all worked out! :)