Tue 9 Feb 2010
The Psycho Girlfriend Chronicles: A Comment Call
Posted by Butter Chicken under Butter Chicken's dishI have never really had a problem with psycho girlfriends or ex-girlfriends. Living with your parents and rubbing your dick between a mattress and a box spring for sexual release pretty well guarantees that the term “girlfriend” never really enters into your vocabulary. However, I have a few friends who have both touched and kissed girls before, so I rely on them for anecdotal evidence of the malevolent insanity of the fairer sex.
Last week, one of them told me a story about a particularly disturbed girl that he had been dating a few years back. My friend (let’s call him “Haggis”) had just gotten out of a long-term relationship that had an incredibly rocky ending (I believe it involved defeating Ivan Drago in Russia). He was in no mood for another serious relationship and just wanted to date girls for a while (read: bang and ignore). He ended up meeting this new girl, who was attractive, fun and, at first blush, normal. Haggis set out the terms of the relationship: hanging out and sex — no long-term prospects. The girl seemed fine with this, or at least did not openly protest. Haggis thought everything was going swimmingly. One Saturday morning, the two of them went for a run. After they came back to her house, the girl went to go take a shower and he went outside on the patio for a cigarette. He stood outside, finished the smoke, and then came in to see if she was done with the shower. He listened at the door and still heard it running. He sat down and watched TV for a few minutes. She stayed in the shower. He picked up a magazine and flipped through it. She stayed in the shower. He started to get worried. What is something had happened to her? It had been about 25 minutes and still no sign of her. Maybe she had slipped and fallen while he was out smoking. She could be unconcious and bleeding and he was just sitting there! He went to the bathroom door, knocked and poked his head in. “Are you okay? You’ve been in here for a long time.” She was in fact okay — in the physical sense. The girl was sitting in the foetal position at the back of the shower, rocking back and forth while the shower sprayed her. She turned to him with that special form of gargoyle face girls make when they are crying and sobbed, “WHY—DON’T—YOU—LOVE—ME?” and then continued to rock back and forth and cry. They had only been going out for a couple of weeks. Haggis backed out the door and just kept on running.
Oh, and another friend of mine had a girlfriend that used to spice up arguments by cutting herself with a kitchen knife. She also cut him when he tried to take the knife away from her. Good times.
Readers, if you have any anecdotes or tales about the mentally deranged ladies in your life, throw ‘em up in the comments section. If you are a female reader, seriously, what the hell are you thinking? You can do better than this. However, you are also welcome to tell that story about the boyfriend who used to masturbate while smelling clumps of your hair he had pulled from your brush.
Enjoy! If we don’t get any comments, then you are all dead to me.

February 9th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Oh, the floral details of my dating life.
My favorite was an ex who, during a phone conversation that started out as me gently complaining about her bullshit and quickly turned into The Break-Up Call, produced paperwork for our discussion.
It went like this:
Me: (lay out extensive examples of how/why/when she was being kind of a dick, including telling a loud story about Plan B in a crowded restaurant the first time she met my friends)
Her: I hear your feelings and understand them.
Me: Uh… okay?
Her: Is it my turn now? (shuffling noise in the background)
Me: What am I hearing? What is that?
Her: I took the opportunity to visit with our campus therapist, who suggested that I lay out my thoughts in written form.
Me: …
Her: I have notes. STOP! YOU STOP LAUGHING AT ME THIS ISN’T FUNNY!
(TWENTY-FIVE minutes of awkwardly-read point-form talking points later)
Her: I CAN’T DO THIS ANY MORE! I HAVE TO CALL MY MOTHER!
And that, thank God in Heaven, was that.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Trouble in the bedroom, eh? Heh, heh, heh.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
“However, you are also welcome to tell that story about the boyfriend who used to masturbate while smelling clumps of your hair he had pulled from your brush.”
How many of us have dated Spud?
Why in the fuck would you go for a run with a girl you’re just hanging out with? That’s what annoying couples do.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
example of crazy- My girlfriends friend in her early 20’s has moved from Toronto to Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, Ottawa because she falls in “love” with guys 15-25 years older then her whom has just know for a short time.
She lives with them a couple months things go south then moves in with another guy right after. Apparently she enjoys making sex tapes with boyfriends in public spots.
me “Is this the same girl who hates her dad and hasn’t talked to him in a long time?”
gf “yes”
me “that’s what you call daddy issues”
gf “Really? I guess it makes sense now why she does these things”
February 9th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
@ Mike:
The fact that she had notes is fantastic. It reminds me of my favourite thing about the TV show “Intervention”. The family members are having a dramatic, face-to-face intervention with an alcoholic or junkie they have known all of their lives, and they are stiltedly reading off of a fucking notepad. If I was that junkie, I would probably say something like, “if you can’t even remember what I have done wrong, it’s probably not worth me going into rehab for it.”
February 9th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
“Apparently she enjoys making sex tapes with boyfriends in public spots.”
It’s called the pornography industry, Matt.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Ever watch a porn and realize they are doing it on a blanket that looks the exactly the same as one of yours?
me neither
February 9th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
All the hot porn stars get their big break in Ottawa, it’s filled with pussies.
February 9th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
One time I dated this total psycho right. She was all like “We’re married, you have to stop importing russian mail order brides”. And I was all like “I’m going to get a pack of smokes”. And she was all “You don’t even smoke.”
Those were the last words I ever heard her say.
Women… Am I Right?
February 9th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
I had a girl stalk me. We met, slept together once, and she was clearly a little unhinged. I just didn’t take her calls. She used to wait outside my building, and once even got a neighbor to buzz her in. She stood in the hallway outside my apartment for hours, finally leaving some candy hanging on the doorknob. Finally I woke up one morning to find she had broken in and was standing over my bed watching me sleep. Scared the crap out of me. I told her I was going to kill her and she told me to go ahead, she didn’t care if she died. Wound up carrying her out into the hallway and locking her out. Never saw her again but she sent me threatening notes using letters cut out of the newspaper for a while.
No punchline, sorry.
February 9th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Free candy? She sounds like a keeper, Chief, but I guess that ship has sailed.
February 9th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Come on BC, if you’re going to give Haggis a snazzy nickname, then it’s only fair to also give one to the second guy… maybe Porky?
February 9th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
I will admit, notes composed using cut-up newspapers DO look comical. The whole “I’m going to cut your balls off and feed them to you” part kills the comedic effect, alas.
February 9th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
My second-favorite exchange (with a different ex) went:
Her: I have something I want to tell you, but I just know you’re going to freak out about it.
Me: Oh come on, I’m open, you can tell me anything etc.
Her: Well fine, but I just bet you’re going to be all weird about it… I’m still technically married.
Me: …
Her: SEE I KNEW YOU’D JUST THROW A FIT!
February 9th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
A few years ago I dated a girl for about 4-5 weeks. It started out normal but turned odd fairly quickly. Her job was having her work insanely long hours and we weren’t seeing much of each other. One night she tells me she’s going to bed early because she has to get up super early. Later hat night I see her out with friends and she claims that she forgot it was her good friend’s birthday. Not really a big deal (we haven’t known each other that long) but still a red flag.
About a week later she calls and invites me over to a party at her neighbor’s apartment. Now this couple is weird. He may or may not still use meth and likes to beat her every now and again. I get to the party in an hour or so and she is totally hammered. The “party” just consists of the three of them. She then asks me why I came over, forgetting the invitation. After a few awkward minutes she and the girl disappear into a room and the possible meth-head says let’s go outside for a smoke. As soon as I step outside, he slams the door, locks it, and turns off all the lights.
I casually scanned the obits for the next week to make sure she wasn’t dead. She called me a week later to say that it was over between us (no shit) and that she was pissed I showed up uninvited. A few months later I ran into a friend of hers that apologized for not warning me that she was out of her freaking mind.
February 9th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
…shhh… My wife is crazy… Oh no! There she is! (INTERNET DISCONNECTED)
February 9th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
@ Madman:
Any “party” with less than six people will inevitable result in a stabbing or a clubbing with a bottle. Particularly when it involves people who ask you if you like “to party”.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:02 am
My ex who cut tried to stab herself also on a few occassions came to my house and when I would not let her in she slept on my front porch or in her car parked in my driveway to make sure I would not leave. Fun times.