[Strike Witch]

A long time ago, about 2001 or so... there was a girl I made friends with, shortly after I had split up with a girl I had been dating for over 3 years. Needless to say, I really liked the one I mentioned previous, and I was cruising to find someone new to end up with. Well..I was a little over eager in that case, and I was pretty annoying to her...which, wrecked the friendship we made, and it drove us apart after we had a fight one evening.

I've always been of the mentality that you fight for what's worth saving, but because of what I had been dealing with already prior..I resorted to the other part of my mentality...if you don't feel like dealing with something...walk away.

So I did. I saw her a few months later, but I didn't know if I should say something to her or not. Sooo...letting my ego get the better of me, I just kept walking past her and ignored her. I didn't see her for maybe 4 years after that. Than one day a friend of mine at my job said...umm..you're never going to guess who just applied for a job here. Yep...It was her. I stayed the hell away from the area she worked in for weeks, and did my best to not look in her direction when I had to pass her. 2 weeks after that point, I had to pass her while moving some supplies from one location to another, and she saw me...and came over trying to get my attention. Of course..I was ignoring her, till I had no choice but to acknowledge her. She asked why I wasn't talking to her since she showed up...I asked her if she was serious, and than asked if she remembered the last few unpleasant things she had said to me. (Go Hug yourself was one of her less colorful terms)

Well....3 minutes into talking to her, I could see the look of curiousity and politeness fading out of her face and she turned white and looked horrified. She told me she didn't remember any of that, so I smirked it off asking how do you not remember something like that? That's when she said to me...notice how I have bangs for my hair style? Yeah. I didn't have them when you knew me before, did I? Nope. So...she pulled her bangs back and the right side of the upper part of her forehead and face was covered with scars. It turns out she had been in a REALLY bad car accident...spent a year in a coma...and than had to spend 2 years in rehab. And that whole time? I was mad at her...couldn't think of anything nice to say about her...and look at what was going on...she almost died.

She also lost a years worth of memory...she didn't remember that we had a falling out...she just remembered that I had always been really nice to her and she thought I liked her.

Dude..I can't tell you how horrible I felt about that. A week later, she asked me to go out with her for a night of fun...and we did...and we had a great time. Quite a few times after that too. So I learned a pretty valuable lesson from that..I know I'm lucky to say that it has a happy ending in that I have a great friend now.

Apparently this actually happened to a guy I know on another forum.