Tl;DR – I have a bad habit of joking around and making fun of friends, but it made one of my friends really mad at me. And I wanna try to limit my jokes so I don’t hurt anyones feelings.
I have a bad habit of joking around and making fun of my friends as a playful joke. Most of them take it well and play along, but one friend in particular sometimes doesn’t, and I wanna stop myself from hurting her feelings.
I think I got this habit from my old friend group, because we always would just go up to each other and just start talking shit to each other, but obviously we never meant it and started laughing with each other. I had to leave though because a part of the friend group didn’t really like me and so I decided to leave but I still keep in touch with the close ones.
So I found a new friend group, but it was a big change because the group is smaller, and its all girls and I’m the only boy. I felt more connected to the girls at my school more than the guys because they’re not really my energy. Anyways, for the most part the energy in the new group is way more positive and energetic and I love it.
But today, me and my friend kayla, were in homeroom today talking about all the gay accusations I’m getting and we were laughing about it. Then we started talking about facial hair and stuff, then she said
“Oh I can see your mustache growing, maybe that’ll make you more masculine”
Then I said I prefer to be more clean shaven and will probably shave soon. Then I proceeded to make a big mistake.
Then I followed up by saying,
“Omg! We should wax our mustaches together!!”
Worst mistake ever. And now shes pissed at me. I said it bc I say similar things to the other girls and they take it well and say things back so I thought she would do the same. Boy I was wrong. Shes more serious than the most of us so she doesn’t really take my jokes as well as the others.
I apologized already and I am giving her space, but I wanna try to stop joking around as much so I don’t lose my friends.