himglishandfemalese:

Now, imagine you asked him on a date and he said something like, ‘Hi, of course it would be fun to meet up but at risk of being presumptuous, I’m really not looking for anything romantic right now’. You would think, ‘oh, that’s kind of humiliating, and rejection is never nice, but at least I am being humiliated/rejected directly on my phone rather than passive-aggressively in a bar’. And then you would text back something like, ‘oh, not presumptuous, but yes, would be fun to get a pint this weekend anyway’ and you’d go for a drink and maybe become pals. Or you could respond, ‘No, of course no romantic intentions’ and you’d go for a drink and maybe become pals. Or you could even respond, ‘Yes, well, really I only want to hang out with you if it will one day lead to us sleeping together, so never mind.’ And then you would probably not become pals, but that would be OK too.

  10:38 am  |   June 24 2009   |  3 notes   |  View comments