[luckyjimm]

On a school trip when I was 16, a guy in my crowd of friends, David, tells me he is thinking of dumping his long-term girlfriend and first love, Julie.

When I get back, I tell this to another friend, Mark.

At a party a few days later that I don't go to, Mark goes up to Julie and says "So, how does it feel now that David's dumped you?" She burst into tears. David hadn't told her yet, and was maybe having second thoughts. But this broke them up.

She phoned me at home screaming at me for repeating her boyfriend's confidence (is it my fault he wants to dump you?). I'm in my parent's front room, they are sitting watching TV while I try to get this crazy girl off the phone. My mother asks if I'm having "friendship problems".

It was very, very embarrassing.

Thirteen years later, David and Julie are happily married, while Mark and I haven't had a serious girlfriend between us.