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Offline gpw11

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I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 06:41:48 PM »
I'm actually kind of relieved about it, seeing as it was pretty obvious that it was probably going to be a pretty big waste of time, but in general it's pretty funny.  It's basically this girl that I've met with a couple of times, was supposed to meet a few weeks ago, and never heard from her.  Ran into her a few days ago and she said she lost her phone and my number, but she was waiting for me to call and was surprised I never did. So we made plans to meet on Sunday in the day.  I called her around noon, and was kind of hoping to just get a machine and leave a vague message and be done with it, but she picked up and then got cut off.  Unsure of whether it was kosher or not to just leave it at that (she can call back) I thought there was a chance she wouldn't know who it was, and I didn't want to be a dick, so I called back like 30 min. later and left a message.  Still no word.

It's great that I basically got the afternoon 'off' rather than going through some pointless motions (and it frees up the whole question about the viability of having anything to do with her since this is the second time), but I'm actually surprised that people do that.  I mean, I feel horribly guilty if I get a girl's phone number and never call it. 

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 06:46:46 PM »
I'd say you got blown off more than stood up.

Don't feel too bad.  I went on a date once where the girl's fiancee showed up about 20 minutes in.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #2 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 06:55:09 PM »
Antares wins this thread.  Lol.

I have gotten blown off plenty of times, though.  Glad to see you aren't hanging your head about it.
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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #3 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 06:59:27 PM »
Yeah, ant wins.  And ant... I think you really need to tell us this story.

Not to hijack the thread here, or anything.  Sucks gpw, so just remind yourself you dodged a bullet.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #4 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 07:09:04 PM »
 ;D

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #5 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 07:09:51 PM »
haha.  Yeah, Ant totally wins.  And yeah, I guess that is more blown off than stood up really.   Like I said, I'm not upset about it either way, I was just surprised.  It's never really happened to me, at least in this way.  Things are a lot more complicated when you're trying not to just hook up with girls you meet at the bar.

And you can't really not fill us in on the fiancee story now.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #6 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 07:12:05 PM »
losing your charm dear sir?
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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #7 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 07:12:39 PM »
Wait... are you implying he ever had any?

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #8 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 07:18:20 PM »
well, the fact that some of you are still around here proves he has charms.  You're starting to suck him dry though
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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #9 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 07:28:13 PM »
Then my plan is almost complete...

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« Reply #10 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 07:46:51 PM »
touche.. finally, the confession
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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #11 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 08:10:00 PM »
Actually, that was my plan up until a year or so ago. You guys are just riding my coat tails.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #12 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 08:59:08 PM »
The whole story?  OK here goes. I actually ended up going out with this girl twice, although the second time I was only playing wingman.


Anyway, This all happened about a year ago, but I'll start the story when I was back in high school.  Two other guys and I hung out with a group of three gilrs from Sophmore year until we graduated. For the sake of the story, We'll call the three girls, "She-Bitch" "Big Nose" and "Horse Girl"  One of my buddies was insanely in love with She-Bitch, but she basically jerked him around for three years and they never really dated although she always seemed to give him enough to keep him comming back for more. He never really got over her.  After High school we all pretty much went our seperate ways.  I ended up going to college with Big Nose, she and I were decent friends.  We had a class together Freshman year, we sat next to each other and talked but never hung out outside of class.  I also bumped into her on campus a couple times throughout College, but we never really talked after Freshman Year.  I always kind of liked her, but never really did anything about it.

Fast forward around 3.5 years to the summer shortly after I had graduated from College.  I was working at the Ceramics factory, and living back at home with my mom in the town where all of us grew up.  One Night my buddy and I (the one who was in love with She-Bitch) were at a bar playing some pool, when out of the blue we ran into She-Bitch and Big Nose.  It was already pretty close to last call, and we were all a little drunk, so we ended up chatting for around 10 minutes before we all went home.  Before we left, we made a date he next night to all meet at a hotel restaurant where they both worked at around 8pm when they got off.  Sounds like a date. 

The next night my buddy (both under the impression that this was a date) and I both got dressed up and met She Bitch and Big Nose at the bar.  They both paired off, Big Nose sat by me at the bar, and She Bitch sat next to my friend.  We were just about through our first drink and having a good time catching up.  When all of the sudden, two guys show up.  One is introduced as Big Nose's fiancee, the other as She-Bitch's boyfriend.  Since we were already in pretty deep, and since the four of us had been friends previously.  Neither my friend or I could justify leaving, especially since we didn't want to let on that we thought this was going to be a date. So, the six of us finished our drinks and drove across town to a an Old Chicago's where She-Bitch, Big Nose and the boyfriends spent most of the evening talking about the finer points of Martini Bars and Wine drinking while managing to act as if Old C's was beneath them the entire night despite the fact that this was the bar They had picked. My friend spend most of the night staring at She-Bitch's boyfriend like he was about to stab him.  I mentally checked out and alternated between intently studying my beer and watching basketball on the bar TV. After about 2 hours I finally managed to talk myself away, somehow managing to get through the night without blowing my brains out.

Fucking miserable, but at least, I figured I was free from them forever.

About 2 months later I get a call from Friend 3 who had been away for school over the course of the first part of the story. He was all excited because he had just received a call from She-Bitch, and was supposed to meet her and Big Nose Downtown in some East/West Fusion-Martini bar-Cocktail lounge bullshit joint that I knew I would hate immediately after hearing just the name.  Friend 3 had recently become single after 2 very long term relationships and was (still is) on a mission to bang just about everything in a skirt.  I told him about the miserable fucking fiancee evening, and warned that this was exactly what was about to happen.  He didn't want to hear it, and was convinced he had a chance with She-Bitch.  After something like 20 minutes of pleading that he desperately needed a wing-man for the night to keep Big Nose busy while he worked his game I eventually relented and agreed to meet them there later that night.  At least,  I knew what I was walking into this time.

I arrived on time to the restaurant, Friend 3, was classically about 45 minutes late. I waited outside outside in the cold for him to arrive  determined to see as little of She-Bitch and Big nose as humanly possible.  Friend 3 finally arrived, we went inside to find Big Nose  with her Fiancee and She-Bitch with some Australian Toolbox.  They had been nice enough to start eating without us, and lucky me Friend 3 decided not to let them know I was comming along, meaning that the booth was exactly 1 seat short.  Fucking sweet.  This wouldn't have been too awful except that this particular booth was raised about 6" off the ground and the chair I was forced to pull up was too short meaning I sat there like a second grader at the big kids table.  I ended up paying like $8.95 for a noodle plate I didn't want, and another $5 for a Coors Light, I'm pretty sure I got shafted into pitching for a whole bunch of other shit I didn't eat because someone had the bright idea of splitting the tab up evenly.  Anyway, She bitch talked to Friend 3 for all of like 5 minutes and spent the rest of the night ignoring him and melting all over Australian toolbox who was telling stories about planting trees in Africa for the impoverished something or other and bringing to light our lack of knowledge on the plight of the poor downtrodden (and apparently treeless) West-Africans.  I ended the night about $40 poorer and about 100% more pissed off.  Friend three never got laid and now I'm convinced She-Bitch does this on purpose for some sick reason.

I'm really not sure which night was worse.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #13 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 10:00:54 PM »
Living vicariously ftw.  Allow me to say, sir, that the stories were worth every minute you spent typing them.  Not only were they entertaining (and I'm glad you managed to not kill anyone, btw), they remind me of how much I really don't miss all that stuff.  Hooray!  Entertainment and utility all at once.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #14 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 11:32:57 PM »
Ugh, thats some serious bullshit you had to wade through. Makes me glad I didn't push any further with the chick Im now friends with. We went out twice, and while I did like. I decided not to go for it just cause she really wasnt a good match up. Plus I felt I had competition which I really wasnt gonna fight for. In the end I was right. She had just got a boyfriend despite all her efforts to lead me on I didnt buy it, and I bet she would have kept going with it if I kept pursuing. Im really paranoid about that shit and she just makes it worse.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #15 on: Sunday, January 07, 2007, 11:56:56 PM »
The last line made me chuckle. I think the first night was far worse. When you are talking to someone for hours thinking you are making ground and suddenly find out it was all hopeless. The worst of it is that you couldn't leave!

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #16 on: Monday, January 08, 2007, 01:45:27 AM »
That was an AMAZING post, Antares.  LOL

I haven't laughed that hard in days.
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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #17 on: Monday, January 08, 2007, 02:05:03 AM »
haha! yeah, that was a pretty amusing story.

i'm sure there's a certain proportion of women who just lead guys on for the ego trip. the harlots!

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #18 on: Monday, January 08, 2007, 02:35:08 AM »
hilarity

absolute hilarity

I've done an awful lot of standing up lately, too lazy to deal with chicks at the moment, so screw em, they can wait for a while
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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #19 on: Monday, January 08, 2007, 06:49:09 PM »
I'm glad my misery could bring you all a small amount of joy.  8)

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 11:30:56 PM »
The chick in question called me the other day.  We talked for about 5 min. and she's basically said she didn't want to be presumptuous, but she's going away in a few weeks and she doesn't really think she should start seeing someone, but she'd totally be down with hanging out.

Fair enough.  I already wrote her off a few weeks ago, but yeah I like hanging out with new people (read: sleeping with their friends) and that was kind of going to be the plan in my mind as to why I was going to meet her last weekend.  Alls well and good, and this is probably the absolute best way this could work out as I like her...but I'm not going to kid myself...I can't handle a girlfriend, especially one that is best friends with a good friend of mine.  So we can still hang out sometimes, I can still hang out with her best friend and not have to feel bad about anything I did or didn't do, and the only really downside is I don't get to sleep with her the three or four times I probably would have before it all went sour.

And then I go back to thinking how many kegs I need for this party on sat...and realize that phone call was just a little too convenient of timing.  Well played...well played indeed.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #21 on: Thursday, January 11, 2007, 04:42:34 PM »
2.

Any party that requires more than 2 kegs is bound to get out of hand.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #22 on: Thursday, January 11, 2007, 07:45:20 PM »
3.

Any party that gpw shows up to is bound to get out of hand.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #23 on: Thursday, January 11, 2007, 08:19:57 PM »
Touche.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #24 on: Thursday, January 11, 2007, 11:38:24 PM »
 ;D

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #25 on: Friday, January 12, 2007, 12:20:55 AM »
:(

There's going to be some awkwardness because there's going to be a couple of girls there that I'd rather not be around each other and me at the same time, but whatever.  If I was to put money on it, I'd bet on me doing something stupid.

On that note, I need help on two things from you guys:

1.) If you can think of any great original drinking jenga rules for blocks let me know.

2.) I need a torrent to the macho man randy savage rap cd from recent years. 

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« Reply #26 on: Friday, January 12, 2007, 09:01:14 PM »
I hate drinking Jenga.  It takes too fucking long to set up.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #27 on: Friday, January 12, 2007, 10:05:52 PM »
Best drinking game ever?  "Drink The Beer!"  And I didn't even think of it 'till just now, but that was actually from Family Guy.

<Quagmire>Who wants to play "Drink The Beer"?
<Peter>Me! -- *chugs beer*
<Quagmire>You win!
<Peter>What did I win?
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« Reply #28 on: Friday, January 12, 2007, 10:18:41 PM »
Best drinking game ever?  "Drink The Beer!"  And I didn't even think of it 'till just now, but that was actually from Family Guy.

<Quagmire>Who wants to play "Drink The Beer"?
<Peter>Me! -- *chugs beer*
<Quagmire>You win!
<Peter>What did I win?
<Quagmire>Another beer!

 ;D

I favor Asshole and King's cup when it comes to card games. I'm also a big beirut fan, although I'm not serious enough about my drinking to be any good anymore.

All other games are just filler.

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Re: I think.....I think I just got stood up.
« Reply #29 on: Friday, January 12, 2007, 10:33:59 PM »
I'm boring.  When I drink, I just drink.

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« Reply #30 on: Friday, January 12, 2007, 11:38:13 PM »
play squabble!!
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« Reply #31 on: Saturday, January 13, 2007, 06:29:35 PM »
I'm a big fan of beer die or beer pong, but that's pretty much it.  Well, that and Edward 40 Hands, but that's not so much a game as it is an excuse to tape malt liquor to your hands and wear bandannas.