Dating do's and don'ts

[Rick]

Aurora should cut the foreplay and just post the damn song.

[Drewbacca]

Originally posted by Dolemite
Went out with a girl I met in a bookstore once. Seemed pertty cool at first, was cute and geeky (into anime big-time). I went to her apartment to pick her up for our first and only date. We got something to eat, and she babbled on endlessly about herself. Anyway, while we were driving back to her place, she mentions that she's a virgin (she's 26). Um, okay, I don't know why she offerered that info, I wasn't planning on banging her that night anyway. So, we get back to her apartment, and she starts showing me her anime collection, some drawings she made, her Samurai sword, and some stuff on her computer. All very nice. We talk for a bit. Things are cool, though for some reason, I wasn't really that into her. Something seemed a bit odd, I didn't know what. She keeps talking about how she likes me and all, but that her parents never shower her any affection, so she really doesn't like it either. Um, okay. I start wanting to leave, so I excuse myself. She walks me to the door, and while we're saying goodnight, her cat starts edging to the open door. "N-n-no, my cat, he's gonna get out...!!" she cries, and before I can do anything, the fucking cat runs out the door. Now she freaks. "Ohmygod! He's out! Ohmygod! Oh, NO! No, we gotta find him!!". Um, okay. So we're chasing this goddamn cat around the backyard in the middle of the night. The cat jumps up on the fence. "Oh, no! He-he's on the fence! No, please don't let him jump over, oh, god, no!". And with that he jumps over. Then she goes crazy and starts crying her eyes out. Seriously, she was crying like she had just watched her whole family get run over by a steamroller. So, me being the tool that I am, I decide to jump the fence and look in the neighbor's yard. I'm creeping around, hoping that her neighbor doesn't blow my head off with a shotgun, when I suddenly see the cat by a hole in the neighbor's fence leading to yet another yard. I try to grab the thing but it darts away through the hole. I get back to her and tell her the news, and she totally breaks down. She runs around to the front of the house and wakes up her landlady (it's 2AM). the landlady comes out with a flashlight and hugs my date, who's still still crying and almost hyperventilating at this point, trying to calm her down. We then proceed to walk around her block, shining the flashlight into each house's backyard, looking for this damn cat. Landlady goes back to bed, and I walk my date into her apartment and sit her down on the bed. At this point I'm sure she's a complete psycho but I'm also feeling sorry for the kook. I think, I'll take one last look in the yard, maybe the cat wandered back. Hell, I've had cats that got outside and they always come back. I go look, nothing. I come back in the apartment, and I hear...singing. In Itailan or something. I figure she turned on the TV. I go into her room, and it's her singing...just staring blankly at the wall, miserable look on her face, singing. I stand there for a minute, and she takes no notice of me- she just keeps singing, her eyes red and her face stained with tears. The bitch is shellshocked over her cat running away. So, I get her attention, and say that I'm going home, good luck in the future. As I'm leaving, she gets a bowl of cat food and sits by the open door of her apartment holding it and shaking it, I suppose to try and attract the cat by the noise or something. I didn't care at that point, I just wanted to go home. The next morning, I called her, just curious if the damn cat had come home or not. Turns out she sat there, at the door, ALL NIGHT until 7:30AM, when the cat finally showed up. She was also interested in hanging out again, but made no apology for her bizarre behavior the night before. "Okay, great, talk to you soon," I said, and hung up. I had just gotten out of a realtionship with a nut, I had no desire to get into one with another.

I swear, every time I think about this story, I just get happier that I'm currently dating probabably the most emotionally stable girl I've ever met. And she's cute and likes video games too. Imagine that.

Obviously there's something about the cat that means the world to her...

I've never EVER met a girl who was fine with just hanging out with friends, or doing nothing. If you've ever had a serious girlfriend for more than a year you know that it's not this easy.

I think Hero said it best when he said that rimshot line in reply #1.