relationships
has it occured to the members of the human race that the current attitude towards finding "that special someone" has been made unduly complicated?
I was out last night with a friend... the usual university scene.. beer, music and fairly meaningless chatter. Anyhow, she was telling me about some guy she was interested in, and how she hoped that he would be there that night. So after an hour, and a couple of drinks, we bump into this guy... She was talking to him, and I was trying to make myself invisible, when I see that this guy (lets call him X) gets signaled to by a friend, P. Now P, clearly excited that X is talking to a girl, gives him a thumbs up.. X, fearing embarassment, gives P a look of disapproval, but not without a smile to let P know that he's interested in my friend.
Now for a casual bystander like me, this is gold :-) I've just witnessed what was supposed to be a candid communication between these two guys... Obviously, I tell my friend.. Now she's excited that X is interested in her.. So I ask the inevitible question..
"what are you gonna do about it?"
"about what?"
"well.. this guy likes you.. are you gonna take it further?"
'Oh NO!!! I don't really want him.. I just wanted to see if I could have him, and besides, I like the attention"
Now this completely left me speechless (not an easy task).
Why would anyone want to complicate their life so unnecessarily?
Completely dinenhartened by this tragic turn of events, I wind up in a karaoke bar and sing "I will survive" very loudly, and not quite in tune...
I was out last night with a friend... the usual university scene.. beer, music and fairly meaningless chatter. Anyhow, she was telling me about some guy she was interested in, and how she hoped that he would be there that night. So after an hour, and a couple of drinks, we bump into this guy... She was talking to him, and I was trying to make myself invisible, when I see that this guy (lets call him X) gets signaled to by a friend, P. Now P, clearly excited that X is talking to a girl, gives him a thumbs up.. X, fearing embarassment, gives P a look of disapproval, but not without a smile to let P know that he's interested in my friend.
Now for a casual bystander like me, this is gold :-) I've just witnessed what was supposed to be a candid communication between these two guys... Obviously, I tell my friend.. Now she's excited that X is interested in her.. So I ask the inevitible question..
"what are you gonna do about it?"
"about what?"
"well.. this guy likes you.. are you gonna take it further?"
'Oh NO!!! I don't really want him.. I just wanted to see if I could have him, and besides, I like the attention"
Now this completely left me speechless (not an easy task).
Why would anyone want to complicate their life so unnecessarily?
Completely dinenhartened by this tragic turn of events, I wind up in a karaoke bar and sing "I will survive" very loudly, and not quite in tune...
posted by Hamlet at 2:18 PM
3 Comments:
Came over here frm Kate's.
The ending to this post was very funny! :)
roman: thanks!
sophist: you can be serious?? Thats just CRUEL! this poor guy is under the illusion that he's gonna get some action from this chick!!
I think he has!
but she's "not commiting", which is a lame way of stringing him along without having to give him any of the goos stuff..
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