My girlfriend, her roommate and her friends went out of state for a beach trip. Her roommate needed a dog sitter. I agreed to do it because, hey why not. And because I was only planning on staying in and watching a sporting event. 

Her internet router decides to shit the bed the morning of the event. To make matters worse, the internet router is in her landlords apartment. Her landlord lives downstairs, and they all share the internet. Landlord isn’t home, and so I can’t go ask him to reset it or anything. 

I ask her to text her landlord to see if he’s able to reset the router. She does. An hour goes by, and no answer.

At this point, I’m wondering if he’s out of town, or if he’s planning on coming back any time soon. The sporting event is starting soon, and I don’t want to miss it. I ask her if she can send another text, or maybe call him to see what the story is. 

She refuses. She tells me I should call him if I want to know so badly. Now, I know her landlord. We’re friendly. But I don’t know him *that* well. I ask her to just do it, since he has her number saved, and if he sees her calling, it might make him think it’s important. 

Again, she refuses. At this point, I feel like a total idiot. Not only am I watching her roommates dog so that she could join my girlfriend and their friends at the beach, but I spent last weekend driving her and another friend to another state 5 hours away so that my girlfriend could go to the US Open (I had to stay behind at home with her stepmom and sister) and her friend could meet another friend that lives close by. 

It’s infuriating. I waited an hour, and all I wanted was for her to send another text or shoot her landlord a call, and she didn’t want to do it. Such a small thing for someone who was doing her a favor. She was literally just laying on a beach. It wasn’t like asking her to take 5 minutes out of just sitting on a beach would have completely ruined her day. Yet she acted like I was asking her to drive back from the beach and reset the router herself. 

It’s disheartening. I only agreed to watch the dog because another friend of hers who originally was going to do it canceled. I did what I thought was a favor to her and her roommate, and she made it sound like what I was asking her to do was impossible. 

Ugh.