"If you ask for her phone number she will immediately and automatically envision herself sitting day after day on her sofa, bleary-eyed and twitching, waiting for you to call. And right then and there, she will hate you; she will never want to see you again." -Cynthia Heimel(I know I already used this quote. So bite me.)
I think you can infer what's gone on- or not gone on by reading that. But I'm not worried. No, not me.
I'm not gonna start having flashbacks to The Moron in the way that Vietnam vets have flashbacks of the horrors of war. I'm not going to think of how often I've sat around all night waiting for the phone to ring, and every time it's not who you expected. I'm not gonna start going off on how I musta found another workaholic jerky Moron to date. No.
I will remain calm. It's not as if I had a lot to say to him anyway. I still haven't figured out anywhere to go on a date in this town (that I haven't already been with somebody), and I know I have to pick that. I was dreading the call kinda because of that (the other reason being that I can't give directions for crap). Hey, no call, no stress. Gives me more time to think, right? (Oh yeah, like I ever think.)
You see, when it comes to phone calls I have what I call the 24 Hour Rule. If someone doesn't call you on the day when they're supposed to, I give it 24 hours before I flip out about it. If you were expecting the call Wednesday night, wait until late Thursday night to flip out. Things come up, emergencies/work stuff/whatever may interfere. I'm a reasonable person, I can accept that.
But if you don't hear from them after the 24 hours are up . . . then you've got a problem.
I should be stiffer about this. I accepted "I forgot" a lot from The Moron, mainly because it was quite plausible (he had the memory of your average stapler). But if that isn't it, then you're stuck with "The person's a jerk", and then I never know what to do. Call them and complain about it? Swallow it and forget the person?
I hate being put in that position.
And if that happens to me again . . . I wish I could say that I'll suck it up and complain about it, but who am I kidding? I'll ignore it unless/until I hear from the person, in which case I will swallow whatever BS they've got for me and continue to put up with it.
I know, I know, I have no self-respect or whatever. Then again, I've gotten more dates from having no self-respect than I have from throwing fits.
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