Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Feeling Obligated

Tomorrow night I am going on a date with this gal that spoke about last week - yep the one that invited me to sit down and share my story with her and her friend.  The same one that called the next day and told me I should ask her out.  She has caught me off guard twice and both times I have had Amy staring at me and then giving me grief about it.  Alas she is not alone, Dave also dishes it out.  If that isn't enough I even had Shelly giving me a hard time and she isn't even a sibling.  Here's the thing, I don't have any interest and really don't want to go out on this date but I was feeling so much pressure about not being a jerk that I decided I could take her to a basketball game.  In the meantime I just get to suffer from the anxiety this entire thing has created.  What's worse is that this feeling of being obligated to do something has lead me to schedule a courtesy date.  I have been on the receiving end of a courtesy date and it just isn't fun in the long run.  So now I feel like I'm in a no win situation - I am a jerk if I don't ask her out and I'm a jerk because I am going on a courtesy date.  Great.

I am sure I am just stressing out about nothing.  Can you tell that I don't enjoy this kind of thing?  I will do my very best to make it a good experience.  I will be kind, I will be a gentleman and I will try to keep things as simple as possible.  Thank heavens we have tickets to the T-Birds Basketball games.  It makes dates easy to plan and manage.  Takes a little stress off.

  

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