re: is you is or is you ain't by rfaria

January 25, 2007 01:08 AM

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Dear Internet,

I accepted an invitation from a former co-worker to hang out last weekend. We met at a cafe and had tea, walked to his place and hung out with his roommates, painted stuff, and played scattergories. Then I walked home.

There was no physical contact. It was acknowledged by all parties that it was a generally pleasant afternoon and we should do this again.

I have been informed by a friend that I have just transformed from being someone who doesn't date to someone who dates but rarely.

I contend that as I have no amorous intentions, and no advances were made on either side, this was a date only in the social meeting sense, and not in the hubba hubba sense. At all.

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Oh, honey, that's so cute. It was definitely a date. (10 votes)
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So very not a date. Don't sweat it. (46 votes)
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  • fiercenailbunny says:

    What's so wrong with dating?

    Jan 25, 2007 02:24 AM
  • rfaria says:

    Nothing is wrong with dating.

    Also, nothing is wrong with diving, riding horses, eating beets, and other things I don't want to do at all (but others can if they like).

    Also, nothing is wrong with reading the complete works of Dickens, eating only 75% or higher chocolate, learning how to drive, and other things I don't want to do right now (but would like to get around to eventually).

    Jan 25, 2007 11:33 AM
  • Yuri says:

    The only thing on that list that can't wait any longer is the chocolate, y'know...

    Don't let them twist your mind. A lot of those things that people think about themselves and others are "self-fulfilling made up simplifications" that annoy me no end.
    If you don't date, and that person does not date, and you have a good time, then a good time has been had, and a little bit of sense has been re-implanted in the world. Nurture it, don't care about other people's silly narrow-mindedness.

    Huh, I am back on my confrontational best - time for a holiday... :0)

    Jan 25, 2007 06:13 PM
  • trebonius says:

    It's just semantics. You had a good time, and may do it again. That's what's important. Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be.

    Jan 29, 2007 11:54 AM
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