Ever get your hopes up for nothing? Vent here!

[teddybear4play]

AUGH!

Tonight I get a phone call from my best friend who wants to know if I can meet him and his platonic female friend (whom I'll call "Rainbow") for drinks. He tells me that she came up with an idea that I'll really, really like. That's all. Since I find "Rainbow" attractive, I figure it's my lucky night, and race up to the restaurant thinking my luck with women will turn for the better.

Well, it turns out that "Rainbow's" grand idea was for the three of us to take a road trip to New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. in about six weeks. A fine idea, but certainly not what I was expecting. And if my friend hadn't phrased it so cryptically, I probably wouldn't have gotten my hopes up.

So, it turned out that the extent of my luck was passing a county sherriff's car going 20 miles an hour over the speed limit and not getting pulled over. And now, surrounded by all the fine ladies of Lit, I'm now even more sexually frustrated.

TB4p

 

[Guest]

Oooops, better luck next time.

Da Moon

 

[DevilBoy79]

man that bites, to think one thing will happen and it doesnt the way you want to, never had it happen to me, but i made promises and been unable to keep them, i regret that

 

[Suzi]

Well TB4P....

i get my hopes up on a weekly basis...and dashed about as often.

 

[APhil]

Would ya like to hear a story?

I went out with this girl once. She was currently separated from her boyfriend because he was an abusive, stupid SOB asshole. I took her out, we had a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant, we went out to the lake and sat in the back of my truck, wrapped up in a blanket. I turn to her and she looks me right in the eye, and then she kisses me. We end up making out for nearly half an hour. I take her back to her place, we say our goodnights, and I go home.

Three days later, I am going to class, not having thought about anything but her since that night. I stand outside the building waiting for her to show up so I can tell her so. Her car pulls into a space and she gets out of the passenger side. The asshole who she "broke up" with is driving.

 

[HopefulRomantic]

Spending the day thinking about her.
Psyching yourself up to call her.
Staring at the phone for half an hour before you work up the courage.
Dialing the number.



Getting the answering machine......

 

[InnocentAngel81]

man that bites, to think one thing will happen and it doesnt the way you want to, never had it happen to me, but i made promises and been unable to keep them, i regret that

now that isnt true, we got our hopes up this week, i hope we wont be too bummed

 

[Suzi]

Hopeful...

dearie, dont lose heart...some women use their answering machines to screen calls. She may still be waiting to hear from you...

 

[Allison484]

Spending the day thinking about her.
Psyching yourself up to call her.
Staring at the phone for half an hour before you work up the courage.
Dialing the number.



Getting the answering machine......

Hope you left a message...if not, she may never know you called.

Allison

 

[callableborg]

tb4p

Think that in general when someone else comes up with a plot, esp if it is some one you dont really know very well, it is a good idea not to get your hopes up. More likely your own plans or someone close to you will fit better into your life space.

 

[DevilBoy79]

now that isnt true, we got our hopes up this week, i hope we wont be too bummed

i know babygirl, , maybe some day soon, things will go our way, i / we hope

 

[Ice Cold]

Nahh. I always expect the worse and never get my hopes up, this way if anything ever goes right, it's a really pleasant surprise.

 

[Suzi]

geeeeeeeeeeeez

what a pessimistic way of thinking..

 

[Monazwx]

My thought exactly.
Not too encouraging Ice.

 

[DevilBoy79]

my family screws up my life so much lately it isnt funny, i wish i could get them to understand i have another life and "family" besides them, that needs me, the same as if not more then they do , head feels like exploding, i should try and sleep *sorry just venting*

 

[teddybear4play]

Re: tb4p

Think that in general when someone else comes up with a plot, esp if it is some one you dont really know very well, it is a good idea not to get your hopes up. More likely your own plans or someone close to you will fit better into your life space.

Well, if it wasn't for the fact that the "plan" was something that had to be said in person and not over the phone, and if my friend hadn't phrased it in that exact fashion ("you'll really like her idea . . . I mean, really like it"), and if it hadn't been at a quasi-intimate setting such as a bar, I probably wouldn't have thought anything of it.

But that combination of factors led me to think not like Sherlock Holmes, but like Barney Fife thinking he was about to score. It really wasn't a pretty sight when all I wound up getting was a map of the Eastern Seaboard.

TB4p