(On a long drive)
HE: So do you wanna go check out that farmer’s market ’cause I don’t.
ME: Uhmmm ……. I have no idea what the right answer is here.
HE: But I’ve always been kind of curious about it.
ME: (melodramatically) I just cannot DEAL with all the mixed signals!!!
HE: Hahaha. Yeah, I’m being a jerk.
ME: I think I’ll just sit here and see what happens.
HE: Okay.
ME: Who knows? Maybe I’ll get a better offer.
HE: Maybe. Though we are just sitting in our car.
ME: Piece of advice: When I’m dead and gone and you’re asking the chicas out again, don’t use that method. It seriously sucks. Like “Wanna go to prom ’cause I don’t.” What the heck is that? You’re a little rusty, peaches.
HE: True.
ME: I blame myself. I’ve made it too easy for you. I need to start playing hard to get.
HE: Okay. That’ll be fun.
ME: We’ll see.
My least favorite thing about that approach? If I hear the sentence (for example) “So do you wanna go check out that farmer’s market ’cause I don’t.”? I’ll have this illogical reaction internally:
(DO I want to go to the farmer’s market?
I hadn’t thought about it. It’s hot out. I don’t really want to.
I thought we were going home so I could do this other thing.
Why doesn’t he WANT to go to the farmer’s market? What if I DID want to go? Is this is way of telling me that even if it’s important to me that we go, he is NOT doing that?
WHY ISN’T MY POTENTIAL NEED TO GO TO THE FAMER’S MARKET IMPORTANT TO HIM?
That could have been something I was looking forward to all week, for all he knows. He didn’t ask if it MATTERED to me. He asked if there was a way to get out of it. Because he thinks I would MAKE him go.
He thinks that I’m that selfish? WHY would he think that? I’m totally giving. I went to that game store with him last week even though it was the most boring place on the planet. I cannot believe he isn’t giving me the same consideration.
I don’t even know why he brought this up. I thought we had vaguely discussed plans for the afternoon anyway that he has CLEARLY forgotten. Because our conversations aren’t important enough to remember I guess.
THIS IS AWFUL. I’m not going anywhere NEAR the farmer’s market. He couldn’t MAKE me even if he wanted to go there.)
all in the course of like 5 seconds.
but I say:
“Not really.”
I’m not emotionally equipped for mixed-signal questions. You handled that well.
*highfive*
Marisa — Hahahahahahahaha!
//I’m totally giving. I went to that game store with him last week even though it was the most boring place on the planet.//