04-03-2005 - 1:15 p.m.
My week off spawned a whole lot of nothingness, but also dates #2 and #3 with aforementioned Date Boy. And it's been officially determined that there will be no date #4.
Date #2 was surprisingly nice. We went to a nice Italian restaurant, enjoyed a few drinks, had a wonderful dinner and talked non stop. Perfect setup, right? Well yeah, till we left the restaurant. That's when the very near date rape incident occurred. Honestly boys, when a girl says NO she fucking means it. She shouldn't have to say it 5 times and yell at you. I don't know, maybe he has bad hearing?
I was totally put off by the whole thing, but when he called me the following evening I was well into a one on one beer pong tournament and in my tipsy-ness agreed to go out again the following night. On one condition: that I'd be able to watch The Apprentice. See, when you're really not that into a boy, your TV schedule takes precendence (sp?) over all dating encounters. So we went out to dinner again. This was the first thing that royally pissed me off. I have this thing where I hate eating in restaurants too often. I just prefer eating at home. Not to mention the fact that I have a digestive disease and literally get sick from eating out too often. But this kid was anti everything else. Apparently going to the movies is "lame" or something. So there I was having my 3rd restaurant dinner of the past 5 days.
The second thing that pissed me off was his ability to take things a little too far in terms of humor. He's one of those people that's really funny but then suddenly busts out some joke or comment that is so incredibly wrong and offensive that you can't believe he just said it out loud. (There are just some thoughts you keep contained to your own mind, but some people don't understand that concept.) On date #2 he'd made some really offensive jokes about Terry Schiavo as well as my Livestrong bracelet. First off, it's funny to makes jokes about a news item such as, oh I don't know, the Michael Jackson trial or someone finding a finger in their Wendy's chili. But making a joke about a right to die court battle and a woman who's been lying in a hospice bed unable to function for the past 15 years? Totally not cool in my book. Then to make a snide comment about my choosing to wear a yellow Livestrong bracelet is just ridiculous as well. I put this thing on in August and I honestly will never take it off till it breaks. I don't wear it for some fashion craze or to look cool, rather I wear it for very personal reasons. Cancer has been the cause of some of the most painful experiences of my life and I guess people just don't understand that a yellow piece of plastic can symbolize alot to someone like me. Yeah I don't walk around talking about it because it's a private thing, but fuck off! If I want to wear something, let me wear it.
But anyways, I digress. On Date #3 he once again busted out his over the top I can't believe he just said that humor with some nasty comment about the Pope. He's a religious leader on his death bed, what the fuck is so funny???
So needless to say the date wasn't going so well. Then, knowing full well that I wanted to leave the restaurant by 8:30, he made us sit at the bar for well over an hour so we didn't actually sit down at a table until past 8:00. I was steaming at this point. Meanwhile, as our dinners are just arriving, my friend is calling me going "You gotta leave you gotta leave! You only have a half hour!" Meanwhile, Date Boy totally knew what was up. I came back from the bathroom and he's like "Oh, were you on the phone with Craig talking about how you can't get out of here?" Which of course, I totally had been. What a dickfor! I felt like I was being held hostage or something.
So I was royally pissed off, I find him not in the least physically attractive (well maybe if we put his face on another body and bought him a new wardrobe), and his sense of humor is totally annoying. But apparently I'm making a fabulous impression because he invited me to go to NYC for the weekend with him, which thankfully I could decline because I already had plans. Now, the problem is, how do I get rid of him?
That's gonna be the tough part.
