Friday 29 July 2011

Boys are rubbish. And err, so are girls.



We've all done it.

Fed up of looking at a silent phone screen, or on a birthday eve where the taxi takes your hopeful face to the local Pizza Express rather than Heathrow Departures, we've all let out an internal yell of "BOYS ARE RUBBISH".

However, there have been several historical instances recorded where girls are the ones being a bit rubbish. And by 'instances' I mean once, and by 'girls', I mean me.

Put it this way. The complete lack of date and boy talk around here isn't because I've come across all prudish. It's not even because the offers aren't there. It's because I'm just being bloody useless.

You'd think that after seven months of singledom, I'd at least be capable of saying 'yes' to going for a drink with someone. The South African had tracked me down on Facebook, and we'd been messaging each other for a couple of weeks after meeting at a friend's birthday. And then last week, at the end of a trademark long reply, he asked if I'd like to go for a drink.

At which point, my enthusiasm froze. Things were about to take a step from virtual to real, and I got The Fear. 

The initial delay in responding was because I was drunk when I received the message. And when you're drunk you tend to think most things are a wonderful idea. So what with me being a bit Sensible Cedric, I decided to wait until my head wasn't skipping through a paddling pool of cider and reply the next day.

But the next day was Friday, and I was all woe is jobless me about everything apart from chocolate and cuddling Labradors. So choosing moping solitude over potential romance, I didn't reply. 

Then Future Housemates threw a massive party complete with lasers and huge speakers and a Jager bar and letters warning the neighbours and phone calls from the Noise Police, and everything seemed like a bloody good idea again. A drink! A mere drink! I can drink! Look at me, all drinking 'n' that! But knowing that my judgement was heavily clouded by Jagermeister combined with a 35p Red Bull substitute called Emerge, I concluded that yet again, this was probably not a wise time to reply.

So I didn't.

The next day I had a big hangover. I was very, very tired from the two hours spent attempting to sleep on a completely flat air bed on a kitchen floor next to a bucket and a diabetic friend who, hours earlier, we'd tried to force feed a wrap containing only Heinz Salad Cream. At that point, nothing apart from being in close proximity to a bed and toilet seemed like a good idea. So I went to sleep, and didn't reply.

Then it was Monday, and four days had passed. "Eek. That's awkward. And a bit rude of me." thought I, before confounding that self assessment by not sending a reply.

Along came Tuesday. And having talked myself round to the possibility that a drink could just be a drink, and it could be quite nice, and he does seem quite nice, and oh, that is a rather nice message that I've just left unanswered for five days...nice nice nice, I replied. With a yes, here's some dates I could do (which was all of them for forever, because I'm a jobless wonder), and my phone number because "evidently", I japed, "I'm a bit rubbish at replying on Facebook!"

Ha! Haha! Ha....ha. Ha?

Well, that was Tuesday, now it's Friday. And tumbleweed doth blow.

So the lesson is that sometimes, girls can be just as rubbish as boys.

And sometimes, we bloody deserve it.

6 comments:

Leigh said...

Ooh I do that. Put it off and then it feels rude and replying becomes a big huge thing because you feel like you need to apologise for the length of time it took to reply (and lie about why).

Well done for overcoming The Fear though!

Anonymous said...

"I decided to wait until my head wasn't skipping through a paddling pool of cider and reply the next day."

Poetic.

Do you think you put him off?

jman said...

Of course maybe he was drunk when he sent the invitation and now is going through the same process as you prior to replying. Or maybe he's away or forgot his facebook password or something equally as unlikely! He tracked you down and engaged you; Ladsbrokes is taking odds a response will be forthcoming.

Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Open said...

Leigh - Spot on. That's exactly it. Put it off and put it off and umm and err and weigh it up, then realise 5 days has passed and he's *probably* decided to give you a miss. Nevermind.

soup - Yahuh. I'm basically John Keats. Did I put him off? Probably. But then again, if I'd really been bothered, I probably would have jumped in and replied quick fast. Hence the prolonged dilemma. It was "surely if I was ready / liked him enough, I'd be itching to go for a drink". Perhaps I'm just not that into him...

Jman - Not that I've been stalking (we're not friends on Facebook, just been messaging), his profile photo has changed since I sent the message. So he's been on, and like me, has chosen not to reply. At least I got in there with the non reply first ;)

modelofamodernmajorgeneral said...

oops.

Jager is bad though, well done for not drunk-texting (or facebooking, whatever you hip young kids do these days).

Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Open said...

Model - I'm far too sensible for that. (dammit)

 

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