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There’s this guy from ASW (a social networking site) who has been texting & BB’ing me for a few weeks now. His texts were always a ‘hey – hi’ sorta message which after a point – I just ignored. In fact I told him that I am better at responding to people on the phone than I am via text / BB.
Especially when I don’t know the person, I have no intention of ‘getting to know someone’ over a damned SMS / BB conversation. Anything beyond 3-4 lines of communication warrants a phone call. Once you are my BFF or near enough that sort of status – you can SMS / BB me. Anyone who knows me – knows that it is my pet peeve !! (whole other blog post waiting to happen there !)
So anyway – this guy has called me twice / thrice and we have had good conversation. He’s a surgeon – so the brain cells are definitely there. However on 2 different occasions he has messaged me stating that he’d like to ask me out.
WTF ! Why would you ask out someone who you have never met over a BBM / SMS ? Especially when the lines of phone communication have already been opened ? I never responded to those attempts – until last night.
The man sends me a message in the midst of a spa treatment (yes, metrosexual man) asking me out and my response was ‘seriously ? over a BBM message ? I don’t think so!’
Instant reaction – he picks up the phone and calls and goes on to explain to me that the only reason he messages me is because I am the busy one ! Erm hellooooooo ! he’s the surgeon over here not me !! I throw parties for a living – everyone can call me ! But I’ll be damned if I pick up the phone and risk calling a cardiac surgeon in the middle of the day in case he’s got his hand stuck down someone’s heart !
Moving on, the guy gets a plus point for asking me out last night for next Saturday – a whole week ahead. Minus points for suggesting going out to a very loud and crowded night club for a first meet-up ! Plus points gained however for telling me not to worry and that he would pick me up and drop me home too.
Actually – I told him straight out that I might have an event on Saturday night but as of last night it wasn’t confirmed. Which is the truth. And in the back of my mind – if that night club plan didn’t change to something more civilized like dinner & drinks – ‘my event would materialize’ !
I did hint that a night club might not be the most appropriate choice for the night but it could be played by ear. After all – it’s just one date and he did actually pick up the phone and ask me out … So lets see how that pans out; and I’ll keep you all posted on that.
