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The trouble with nice guys*
Jul. 14th, 2008 09:05 pm*with that I mean actual genuinely nice guys, not the guys who just think they are.
The trouble with nice guys is that you can't really tell whether they're just being nice and polite or they actually like you that way. Case in point: I sent office crush a short jokey text over facebook yesterday, because he was listed online. I didn't get a response. Today at work, he mentioned that he wasn't ignoring me on purpose, he had been doing laundry and by the time he got back, I was offline. Nice, right? Too bad I turn into the queen of the monosyllabic answers whenever he's around. I just can't make out what he thinks of me.
Sheds a whole new light on me being on the other side of that, with guys hitting on me and me thinking: "Jesus, just because I'm polite enough to answer your questions doesn't mean I'm interested." Communication and relationships are so complicated, it's a miracle that we procreate at all.
The trouble with nice guys is that you can't really tell whether they're just being nice and polite or they actually like you that way. Case in point: I sent office crush a short jokey text over facebook yesterday, because he was listed online. I didn't get a response. Today at work, he mentioned that he wasn't ignoring me on purpose, he had been doing laundry and by the time he got back, I was offline. Nice, right? Too bad I turn into the queen of the monosyllabic answers whenever he's around. I just can't make out what he thinks of me.
Sheds a whole new light on me being on the other side of that, with guys hitting on me and me thinking: "Jesus, just because I'm polite enough to answer your questions doesn't mean I'm interested." Communication and relationships are so complicated, it's a miracle that we procreate at all.
