As of yesterday, I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to hear from MMM before he left for Florida. He sent me a Facebook invite to attend his St. Patty’s Day party a few days ago, and I finally got around to accepting it last night. (Am I the only one that lets the friend requests/event invites/other annoying shit pile up until one day I get annoyed and go in and click accept/ignore all of them? ”Remove from my events” is my best friend.)
Seeing my name pop across his inbox must have mentally slapped him because I get this text 10 minutes later:
MMM: Sorry haven’t gotten together this week. Maybe tom. night?
Beth: hi! ummm, maybe? (TF) and I are going to a game night at a friends house… drinking and board games. Any interest?
MMM: I’ll be car-less and need to pack for fla. ill just catch you when i get back have fun!
…
Mens… let me tell you something right now. Ya’ll SUCK at texting. That response?? The only reaction that gets from me is: Then why the HELL did you text me in the first place!!???!!!
OK, I will agree that game night is not for everyone… maybe he hates monopoly (although things are really over for good between us if that is the case) but his response was just retarded. Car-less has nothing to do with it and if you have to pack for Florida, then why the hell are you even texting me???
I held in my annoyance and decided I really don’t give a shit anyway because I have majorly fun plans coming up the next few weeks and I have enough going on that I can wait to hang with him. I sent him this text in an effort to be fun/make him smile:
Beth: OK… you have fun in Florida! I have a great surprise for you when you get back… his name is Buddy and I am dogsitting him for 10 whole days and you will love him!
(Relevance: We had a ridiculously long conversation over dinner about how much we both love dogs and how much we both want one as soon as we live in places with yards. Also, I am super excited to dogsit Buddy… he is a yellow lab and I can’t wait to cuddle him 24/7)
And this is what I get back:
MMM: Yess
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I really have nothing to say about that. I mean… obviously he is into me or else he would just not be talking to me at all. But really? Yess is all you can muster up?
We’ll see what happens when he gets back from Florida… all I can say is that he has yet to make any kind of official effort and show any excitement towards getting to know me at all. And that will have to change if he expects me to keep being excited.
I’m off to pretend I am a robot with no brain (what I have to do in order to get through every restaurant shift) for the afternoon.
And don’t concentrate too hard on this post because my guest post on Big Time Fancy is TOMORROW and you need to save all your energy for that because I am busting out one of my BEST stories for the occasion and you need to get ready!!!!!!!
27 Comments
March 5, 2009 at 11:30 am
Monopoly is fucking terrible. Worst Game Ever. No one ever wins. I even wrote a post about it a long time ago.
I’m sorry.
March 5, 2009 at 11:42 am
I really dislike board games in general. While drinking though, they are alright.
I let me facebook requests pile up too!
Also, boys can be really dumb sometimes.
March 5, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Cut him some slack…
he’s trying to pack.
that rhymed. Im awesome.
March 5, 2009 at 1:09 pm
don’t even get me started on men and texts. i got one from Boston Brian the other day that made me want to punch him in the ‘nads.
March 5, 2009 at 1:33 pm
why overanalyze it?
March 5, 2009 at 1:34 pm
1. boys are dumb.
2. boys who doesn’t like board games are idiots. hasn’t it dawn on guys that they could play naughty scrabble w/ girls?
March 5, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I think texting should be illegal until you’re into the relationship more. It’s waaaay too easy to get mixed signals. I’d boycott it until further notice!
Maybe his thought was that you would come to his place and hang while he packed? That is the only possible thing I could think he might mean if he wanted to hang but had no car and needed to pack.
March 5, 2009 at 2:10 pm
um ok 1. board-drinking-games sound awesome and i’ve never played like that before but i love board games anyway so i think i need to find some people who will play with me
and 2. sexting is so dumb and so necessary and WHY do guys suck so much at it? MMM: flirt a little back with this chick! give her something to work with! “yess” is just weak. you could have at least given it a 3rd ’s’.
March 5, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Am I the only one seeing it? I mean, maybe he’s into you, but it doesn’t seem like he’s *that* into you. Waiting for him to put in effort is futile. If he doesn’t put in effort from the start, then he won’t. Let the married lady tell ya – they put in the *most* effort at the start. It’s only downhill from there. (And not that I’m complaining – I love my husband, but he definitely put in way more effort to woo me than he did even after we were dating for a couple years.) My advice? Go enjoy your other plans (of which you do seem to have plenty) and IF he makes an effort when he gets back from Florida, then CONSIDER if he fits into your plans. Don’t go chasing him.
March 5, 2009 at 2:22 pm
This is why I don’t get women. He texted you to go out the next day, you invited him that same night and he said no.
What the hell is he supposed to say? He wanted to go out another time.
Men are not dumb, we’re just too smart for everyone else.
March 5, 2009 at 2:51 pm
I. Blame. Texting.
March 5, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but Monopoly is the worst game ever created. The ONLY fun part is when you get so pissed you throw the board against the wall out of frustration and paper money goes flying everywhere and the top hate goes missing. Only now, it’s all electronic and you have ATM cards, which makes me hate it even more.
I may or may not have some anger issues to work out.
March 5, 2009 at 3:12 pm
“Yess” is a horrible response … especially when there is a “doggy-style” comment to be made in there somewhere. No imagination! I’m just sayin’
March 5, 2009 at 4:21 pm
I get some seriously random ass texts from the Sexy Legless Pirate, but I have no tact so I have no problem replying with “huh?”
March 5, 2009 at 6:27 pm
oh, mens. estos hombres, dios mio! hehe
March 5, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Perhaps he was just super distracted about his impending trip? That’s not an excuse but could be a possible explanation. And who could blame him? The South is all warm and lacks snow.
March 6, 2009 at 2:23 am
Wait. Do you live in New York? Please tell me you live there.
March 6, 2009 at 9:39 am
You’re really making this guy seem douchey here. He’s a guy. It takes guys three and a half minutes to pack for a month long trip. tops.
March 6, 2009 at 9:55 am
Yeah, it really frustrates me that guys can’t send meaningful text messages. I mean, they don’t have to write whole novels, but if they could actually make sense, I’d be very impressed.
March 6, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Drunk connect four is the best. It is well worth the investment.
March 6, 2009 at 1:48 pm
boys suck at texting. im going through the same thing right now. grrrrrr……
March 6, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I’m so the same way about Facebook. All these events!
But, also,f unny thing, I was leaving you this comment and just got an email telling me you left me a comment on my blog. WE ARE DORKS.
March 6, 2009 at 2:04 pm
My man can’t text either. I try really hard to get more than one word answers; he was also born in 1854, so I think it may be a generational problem.
March 7, 2009 at 1:30 am
Hahahaha, guys really are the LAMEST texters. Oh, and I just read the post where you wrote that he didn’t go out for drinks after and that’s lame too, but at least he realized it. I really hate texting guys because I analyze it and analyze it to death, when really…they didn’t mean anything other than exactly what they said.
March 28, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I’m a boy, and I’m a lame texter.
But in my defence, it’s because I hate texting. I can type at about… 3 words per minute with my thumbs, or I can type at about 140 words per minute with ALL MY FINGERS.
Not to mention my thumbs begin to ACHE when I text for a while; and no matter how much I text, girls always seem to have an infinite supply of texts just waiting to shoot back at me moments after I press ’send’.
Usually I just give up mid-’conversation’ and hope she got the hint that my fingers were developing a not-so-mild case of arthritis.
April 4, 2009 at 1:26 pm
I love Monopoly. LOVE it. I’m the person that has $5 left and wants to keep playing even though everyone else wants to bail and I’m clearly only about 10 minutes from going bankrupt anyway.
And I’m always the little dog. Does everyone else always use the same piece too or is it just me?
And yes, boys suck at the messaging. I think it’s because they don’t understand that we overanalyse EVERYTHING.
April 7, 2009 at 10:24 pm
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