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Dear Marsha,

For the past 4 months I’ve had the biggest crush I’ve ever had on one of my friends. A couple of months ago, I gathered up the courage I needed to tell him how I feel, but he replied that he only liked me as a friend. I’ve tried getting over it, but I just can’t, and it’s driving me crazy!! I keep wishing, hoping and praying that he’ll ask me out, even though I know that he won’t. I’ve thought about asking him out, and even come close to actually doing it a few times, but I’m scared, since he knows that I know that he doesn’t feel the same way about me. But at the same time, something is telling me that I won’t be able to get this out of my system unless I give it a shot. But considering it took me 4 hours of staring at my phone, saving drafts of text messages and cancelling sent ones just to tell him that I like him, I don’t think I have the courage to ask him out, even just as friends. What should I do??

-Loveless

Dear Loveless,

The most important thing right now is that you do not push yourself on him.  Most people that say they wish to be friends, mean that they do not have any feelings for you other than that of a sister/brother/or friendship kind of feeling.  Being too persistent may drive away that friendship feeling he currently has for you.

I am not going to say that this person will not ever change their mind and/or feelings toward you into something more, because that has happened in several relationships, but try not to get your hopes up for this. (more)

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Hello Marsha from the girls of Office Nightmare.

We come to you today as a group effort in hopes of finding a prank or so that could aggravate a co-worker as much as he aggravates us daily. We do not wish for it to harm him physically in any way, nor do we wish to be destructive to his belongings…just something to annoy him.

Dave is a very uptight perfectionist.  He is very clean and tidy, nothing is ever out of place.  He carries an aura about him that is depressing for all of us.  We actually are happy if he calls off work, but that is very very rare I assure you.

Dave is in charge of reviewing all of our reports sent to him before approaching the board.  He will not even glance at these proposals if they are not correctly stapled on the left corner and the staple must touch the 2 sides in a perfect manner. This makes it easy for him to read of course as he is folding back the pages.  He also makes all corrections noted by highlighting the area with highlighters. He uses a different colored highlighter for each kind of mistake he finds. If we need to change punctuation, he highlights it in blue. If the error is with sentence structure, it is highlighted in orange,  if there is an area that is not backed up with proper references, then it is highlighted in yellow…etc. etc.  Post It notes are considered taboo as they can get lost and could refer to more than one area of our reports. Pen’s are only allowed to be Black as blue is too bright for him to read. Pencils are to always be kept sharpened prior to the start of your day as noise carries over our cubicles and the sound of electric sharpeners annoy him.

Do you see where we are coming from here? This is our everyday life at work. We want a silent revenge. Any ideas?

Tried Trio

Dear Tried Trio,

I could not help but chuckle when I read this post. (more)