File this article under the “uh-oh” column of bad news: The Peak has received confirmation from multiple sources that second-year Brady Chips and third-year Thomas Finkle, one of SFU’s hottest pair of acquaintances, will be calling it quits on their somewhat friendship at the end of this semester.
“Brady thinks Thomas is a chill enough guy, but he’s just not looking for any more friends right now,” a source close to Chips confirmed the power pair’s split. “He’s focussed on other things in his life, like school, work, his girlfriend, the recreational volleyball team he plays with on the weekend, his pet ant farm, and finally getting into Better Call Saul.”
No official word yet on who initiated the gradual drifting between acquaintances, but one rumour claims Thomas left last week’s tutorial without saying “See you next week” to Brady. Could this have been the tipping point for the two once-kind-of-almost friends? We can only speculate wildly!
Finkle and Chips first met back in May when they both arrived late to the same tutorial and sat in the only two seats available — seats that happened to be adjacent to each other. Finkle then asked to borrow a sheet, Chips made the joke “as long as I get it back afterwards,” and the rest was tutorial history.
“Honestly, Thomas has always been a bit of a commitment-phobe, so I’m not surprised at all to hear him and Brady won’t be staying in touch after the final,” another source, this one friends with Finkle, told The Peak. “It’s tough because Thomas could be walking away from a good thing if he doesn’t just reach out and suggest they grab a beer or something.”
As crushed as we all are to hear the news, the reality is that almost half of tutorial friendships these days end in one person divorcing the other from their Facebook friends list. Sure, Finkle and Chips were totes adorbs, but not all of our favourite SFU acquantainceships can last. (As long as first-years Brittney Broad and Alison Iseke remain somewhat friendly with each other, though, we’ll consider ourselves lucky!)
Finkle and Chips have one TA together, Sarah Locke, who they will be sharing custody of until after their final on August 5. However, it’s reported that Finkle is looking to acquire full friendship-custody of Locke after the exam, meaning Chips would be unable to say hi or be friendly to Locke during brief exchanges in the hallway. Breaking up can be an ugly game, folks.
When The Peak contacted Finkle to comment on his reported split, Finkle acted confused and asked “Who’s Brady?” Finkle then claimed he didn’t know anyone by that name and asked The Peak how we got into his apartment in the first place — classic defensive and topic-changing response from scorned former-acquaintance, if you ask us.
Sadly, if these crazy kids can’t make tutorial-based friendships last, what hope is there for the rest of us?!
