This past Friday I was really looking forward to a relaxing evening at home. I even turned down plans with three different friends just to be home for the night with no responsibilities. I had some delicious leftover chili for dinner and then decided to watch a movie that I had been saving on DVR for a raining day. Although it wasn't raining, it was a great night to watch a movie. Halfway through the movie I get a text message, hoping it was from the guy I met a week ago, I check my phone and there across the screen it says Stupid Boy. UGH!
Stupid Boy was a guy that I was "seeing" on and off for about a year. It was a very toxic relationship and I decided that I needed a clean break. We talked, I cried, he didn't get it, but it ended with us deleting each other's numbers from our phones. The point being no contact, unless it was a work related issue...yes, we work together. Over time, it got easier and somehow we put each other's numbers back into our phones. From time to time, he would come help me with house issues, but we still had limited contact. Needless to say, I was surprised when he text me.
I could directly quote everything from the conversation, but it would be pretty boring, so I will take some liberties in paraphrasing some things to keep your interest.
His opening text said, "Is our colleague single?" I knew exactly who he was talking about, but I played dumb. He had always made very sexual comments about a co-worker that I work very closely with. I know this should have been a sign that I should have ditched him at that point and time, but that's a story for another day. Our banter back and forth was pretty much me saying, "She is not interested in you." And him saying, "Why don't you want me to see anyone else?" He then used phrases like, "Are you making me out to be a creepster?" and "I just want to be friends and get a drink with her." Really?!? After how poorly he treated me, I would want to set him up with a friend of mine? No way. But he didn't understand that. He thinks he is a prince and God's gift to women. To that I say, Thanks for nothing God....he is more of a toad than a prince.
Well, this whole time that he and I are texting, I also text this co-worker. She said she saw him and then said, "He has gained so much weight, I almost didn't recognize him," "He is a hog." and she also said that his ex (who is not so good looking) dropped his kids off at the bar, during happy hour, as he was working on his 3rd beer. Father of the Year material.
He continued to pester me about her for over 2 hours. (Now, you might be thinking, why didn't I just stop texting him? I was using this as a dramatic distraction from this new guy not texting me. I am NEVER going to get caught up with Stupid Boy again. I learned so much about myself from him and although the experience sucked while I was going through it, I am glad it happened...sort of.) Basically things ended with him begging me to send her his phone number (And I'm guessing with a note that says, "Stupid Boy likes you. Do you like him? Circle yes or no.). So I text her his phone number, and then told him I did. I had said to him to remember this favor I'm doing for him. He responds, "I've done you 'favors' before." I am too nice because I wanted to say, "Like the last 'favor' you did for me the last time we had sex and I didn't get off...yeah I remember that one." If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all....so I didn't respond. He couldn't leave it alone and came back with, "Well...." All I could think of was, "Thanks, you're a wonderful person." He got my drift. That's pretty much how it ended.
He is such a manipulator. He knows it bothered me when he would make comments about her, so of course he had to text me to ask about her now that she is single (her divorce is final on Tuesday). He could have simply gone to our staff directory and look up her number. But he wanted to draw my attention to the situation. I'm glad I am so much stronger now and although it really bothered me in the first instant he text, now I find it funny and I feel I had some great comebacks to some of his stupid questions...you Stupid Boy.
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