The "Movie"

8 July 2000

Right now it is 2:40 in the morning and I just finished having an interesting conversation that got me thinking. As many of you know (or at least have suspected) I have not had the best luck with woman. As a matter of fact, I have only had on girlfriend in my life, and that came from a blind date. Part of this I attribute to not being able to "read" woman. I put read in quotes because I believe it is a make believe ablility that some guys profess to have, but actually don't. For this and other reasons, I have never sucessfully found a girl who likes me for more than a friend. There are many who are in the friend category, but none (save the one) who have crossed over. As a consequence of this and my (almost) never give up attitude I have had the blissful opprotunity to be rejected many many times by girls (the most recent being tonight). Luckily I have been let down very nicely by all these girls. Which is what got me thinking. How do the girls know how to do this? Then I came up with the answer. In 6th grade the girls left to watch a "movie". We were told in later years that this "movie" was about girls going through puberty. But I now believe that this was a training video. The training was in relationships, or more specificly how to reject guys.

(I am actually suprised I started a new paragraph, I usually just write in a big glob.) My first rejection that I remember was in 6th grade (it must have been after watching the movie). I atualy don't remember much about it. What I do remember is the girl's name (I won't list it here) and that I did the elementary school think, i.e. I had a friend go ask her if she liked me. The answer came back no and the friend I sent to ask started dating her soon afterward. There followed a bevy of girls I liked who didn't reciprocate my feelings. But they all turned me down nicely. The one I can find the most humor in (which is hard) happened my junior year in high school. I won't mention the girl's name or the event, but it was a big event close to the end of the year. This girl was very pretty in my eyes and I had been interested in her since the beginning of the year. It took awhile but I finally got up the courage to ask her to the event. On the way from dinner to the actual event she said something to me that I will never forget. "Leslie I am not attracted to you in anyway whatsoever and there is no way this will ever turn into a relationship." At least she was honest. We later became good friends.

As a matter of fact, I have found that many girls I am interested in have become good friends. I think this was another part of the "movie". This part was the "let's just be friends" part. All you guys know that the "movie" was very successful in training girls in the art of boy "friends". Maybe I try too hard. I have been told by many people to just let things happen. However I am impatient, so I don't wait. They say that if I am not looking, the girls will come. This reminds me of a saying "A watched pot never boils." Yes it does, and it takes the same amount of time. It is just the perception of time that changes.

It is now 4:30 a.m. (I haven't just written straight, I had a very long break) and I need to go to bed. I know I have left many large holes and questions unanswered, maybe I will add more later. In conclusion, I have had bad luck with girls in the past and to make myself feel better, I am blaming it on the "movie".

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