I’ve learned a few lessons in life. For instance, I’ve learned that if you stick your tongue on some ice, it might get stuck there until somebody comes and pours hot water on your face. I’ve learned that Obama cannot save America from itself. I’ve most recently learned that two MC’s can’t occupy the same space at the same time; it’s against the laws of physics.
Here’s another oldie, but a goodie: After a certain age, men cannot just be nice to women.
It’s true. Oh yeah, it’s true.
That might seem like an odd lesson to learn and it doesn’t mean that if you’re a man you should just slap the monkey shine sh*t out of the next woman you meet, but it does mean that as a man, you have to be really careful with who you flirt with and how long you do so since it can easily be assumed that you are talking to such a woman out of genuine interest and if no numbers or information are exchanged at any point, well…
…you’ve just wasted that woman’s time.
While I disagree with this on principle (hell, she just got a chance to talk to me, no strings attached and I didn’t walk away, lucky her), I do understand the frustrations that many women could feel if they spend say, 30 minutes, jawjacking (no BJ) with some bloke about life only to find out that dude either has a girlfriend or is pretty much not interested in pursuing anything further with a woman.
I’ve had this problem. I’m a social butterfly of epic proportions. I will talk you up and down and forty-seven ways from Sunday and then say, “well, it was nice talking to you, but its time to keep it moving, pimpin’, you don’t know me!” And more than a few times I’m fairly convinced that the woman on the opposing end of my stellar and charming ways was either confused, dumbfounded, or dumbfoundedly confused that the interaction would end with no closure. Except, I got my closure. I got to a place where the convo didn’t interest me anymore and then, well, sayonara.
Thing is, you just can’t do that to women over age 27. Fact is, women are looking for men to date and be monogamous with and all that buttery flowery stuff. And most guys do indeed suck (no Adam Lambert). So when they come across a man who they can talk to for a significant amount of and time and not want to kill, its a breath of fresh air. Who doesn’t want to keep breathing? Women are often looking for love connections. So if you spend 45 minutes talking to a woman you have no interest in pursuing outside of the short convo, knowing what MOST are looking for, it’s almost as if you’re wasting the time they could have been using on some other guy who might actually WANT to hit.
Except, clearly, with so few men out there, technically, that time NOT spent talking to a dude would be spent talking to her homegirl and not a chap with two hangin’ and one swangin’. So there’s no real opportunity cost here. But, the chick’s time is still wasted.
GUCCI!
And that’s not very nice to be out here wasting women’s time when there’s already a man shortage and then there’s a short man problem and a tall man with a short leg problem so I suppose it makes sense. And then there’s the whole no platonic friends rules.
Anyway, good people of the VSB, is it rude for a man to talk to a woman without any intention of getting her number? I don’t think so but I’ve been debated, disputed, hated and viewed in America as a tease since I’ve left a woman hanging or two.
Am I wrong?
Or am I alright like Janet Jackson?
Is women’s time being wasted?
-VSB P aka THE ARSONIST aka TANGLE JIG P aka GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRL, HE A 3
On Friday, I possibly did one of the stupidest things I may have ever done in my life.