So last night I was working with this kid Eddie --though I shouldn't call him a kid, he's thirty, lol-- but anyway, so we got on the subject of relationships and all, and I asked him how many he'd been in. He had eight or nine pretty major ones, with a bunch of what I'm assuming are 'one-night stands' in between (SHAME, SHAME), and the girl he's with now, they've been together sixty-one months, aka five years --he has a thing for months, lol. And I said that's pretty impressive, when's the wedding, haha, and has he had other really long ones, then? And he said the others ranged from three to six months, except one that was initially three months, but then a few years later, they were together for about thirty-three (?) months, almost three years anyway, and I could only stare at him for a moment before asking "How can you leave someone after being together that long?" He laughed, shrugged, said, "I have no idea, really." And I stared a moment more, thinking how sad that was, saying how sad that was, and that I had to go do something else before I started crying.
He thought I was joking.
At least, he did until he came up behind me while I was trying very hard to concentrate on wrapping up the salad bar, and asked how many boyfriends I'd had. One word answer, "One," very easy, but my mood is off, so I'm struggling, and then he asked how long it'd gone on. I can't breathe, I'm not looking at him, not at the salad, not at anything, trying to calm myself, but it comes through as I answer brokenly after a moment "Almost twenty months." And he finally notices my tears, and is all shocked and asks what's wrong, to which I reply, "Nothing, it's stupid, I mean, if you don't care, why should I?"
But it obviously freaked him out as he only nodded and walked away.
He apologized later, though I told him it wasn't his fault I was so empathic (or pathetic, haha), but I think he's going to watch closer what he says around me, cuz I'm obviously an emotional girl and he can't handle emotions...
Typical guy...
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Not all guys are the same. You don't want a sensitive one anyways. Remember when we first met Eric and he drove us nuts with emotion? You don't want that, do you?
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