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Formerly Not So Much. . .the daily musings of a 26-year-old PYT whose self-love is superceded only by her obnoxiously endearing ability to remind you at all times just how fabulous she is. Guys too stupid to realize how lucky they are to be graced with her presence? Woman with 4-pack abs climbs onto the elliptical trainer next to her? Arrives at Chick-Fil-A at 10:37, only to learn she has missed her opportunity for a chicken biscuit? She throws all these setbacks off with disdain. . .after all, have you SEEN her??

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

This Guy's Going to be Tough to Get Rid Of

So I ignored Keith's call last night, call him back late tonight, and he immediately sort of asks me,
"Well didn't I call you yesterday?"
"Yeah. It was late."
"Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't think it was too late."
"Yeah, it wasn't. I was just on my way to bed."
"Did you just not answer?" (Busted.)
After him establishing that this is in fact what I had done, not answered, I say, "Do you know why I didn't answer?? I was pissed off."
"Aha! I knew it!" he replies.

So we get into this discussion about how ignorant he sounded, how uncalled for his comment was, and how distasteful I found it; I did not call him ignorant, in fact, conceded that I think he's very intelligent, which is why the comment even more seemed to come out of left field. He insists he was joking, and (keep in mind, I haven't revealed the true source of my sensitivity on this issue) that he has nothing against gay people, he was just making a ignorant, backwoods-redneck-mocking sort of joke. . .in short, he was trying to sound ignorant. . .to be funny. . .I didn't buy it at first, but after a 15 minute conversation about it, I sort of did. I really think he was joking. I really think he was trying to sound ignorant. . .to be funny. . .as not funny as I found that. . .I think he probably does have some latent insecurities about homosexuals, most straight men do, but all in all, I think his comment. . .like him. . .was relatively innocuous.

Well, there's that, and he kissed my ass with apologies and promised to never make off-color comments in front of me again. And I said, "Keith that's not the point. I don't know that I'd want to date someone who would make them at all" (still annoyed and a bit belligerant, early in the conversation). At first he replied, "Well I don't know that I want to date someone who can't take a joke." Dead silence (this is it, we're breaking up, YES!). But then, he back-peddles. . ."Look, I'm sorry, I won't do it again. . ." for the next 10 minutes. . .then, of course, he tells me about the one gay guy he ever knew and he was damn cool, etc. etc. I did end up telling him about my brothers, but then suggested that while that undoubtedly influenced my beliefs, I am still a flaming liberal and proud of it, towards all minority and socially disfavored groups. So watch it buddy.

Oh, God, I think Sadie is finally throwing up that package of Nutter Butters from Saturday, I can hear her wretching. . .

Point being. . .I tried to break up with him. I suggested it. Then all of a sudden, it turned into a conversation about how sorry he was, how he would be more careful, and he's (yes, he said this) "glad we had this conversation now, I mean, we just starting seeing each other and there's going to be stuff we don't know about each other. . ." Gag me with a spoon. 2 weeks, tops. Back on Keithwatch. Am I evil for being so blase about this while he's clearly not??

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