THE FLAKER

This is the friend that posts on social media all week about ‘how excited’ they are to catch up. There may even be the odd ‘it’s been too long’ text in the lead up to the event and several tags in cheesy Instagram quotes about the true meaning of friendship with the hashtag #MissYou. Yet moments before, they cancel on you. In the worst way possible — via text with some long winded, nonsensical excuse that involves their hectic week of work, their sick dog and/or the family function they conveniently forgot about. A pattern emerges as their ‘I miss you’ texts start again ahead of the next catch up that they end up cancelling again anyway. The only reliable thing about this mate is how unreliable they are. But they’ll continue to post #ThrowbackThursday pictures of years ago when you actually physically saw them regardless