I have been stood up once before. A guy from my work took me out to dinner and gambling, and at that time it had been one of the nicest dates I had ever been on. We had made plans to go to the tracks one Saturday afternoon shortly there after.
I had not heard from this guy for a few days prior to our scheduled date. One evening in the week I received a call from a man we mutually knew. This man was at the bar that my date worked at and wanted to know what I was getting into that night. After a few minutes of chat, he suddenly said, "Hey Patrick wants me to tell you that he can't take you on Saturday because he has to watch the UK game."
I thought that was the pinnacle of my dating disasters until this most recent date that I discussed in the previous blog.
The date I had planned for this past week never showed up. He messaged me at 6:50pm saying he was leaving his house in 10 to 15 minutes and would see me soon. I never heard from him. The next morning I woke up to an offline message from his account stating that it was a friend messaging me and that my date had been killed the night before from being shot. I was completely shocked and upset, but as the discussion went on and I watched the news for the next two days I have decided that there is something not right with this story. Whoever I talked with on the messenger that morning never called like he said he would and I have yet to ever hear anything from my date or anything on the news about it.
This made me reaffirm certain notions I have built regarding men and the dating scene. I hold the belief that men are guilty until proven innocent. Call it cynical, jaded whatever you want, but there are so many messed up guys out there that it is hard to initially tell which ones they are. I had been talking with this person for almost a year on and off and never one time did I feel as though I was being played or he was being dishonest. I have looked back conversations and different things he said that should have sent up red flags and noticed some things that were shaky, but still I do not understand what goes through people's mind. With keeping this philosophy about guys I have been able to not be caught completely off guard when guys do such utterly ridiculous things such as this previous guy did to me.
As always I will keep on going through life and have fun....another opportunity as risen up that I will discuss in a later blog.
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It's really a shame that someone so beautiful has met men so ugly. I know it sometimes feels like men are a virus that needs a vaccination. I know and have friends like those you've fated who ultimately end up single forever or in loveless divorces.
ReplyDeleteThere are guys out there that can appriciate you for the vibrant, intelligent, gorgeous woman that you are. I count myself lucky that I was able to ,through the time spent in class, to pick up on what an exceptional lady you are.
Please know that not all of them will be ugly.