Reject's night when dating

Is it just me but I think of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights as Reject's night: its when you dont want to give up your primo evenings of Weds to Sat so you give the person that you are not sure of one of those evenings as a date option. I just dont accept dates (only at the beginning of course) on those nights. Is this my own little oddity?

 

Depends on the person asking, I'd say.

Buddy of mine is a fireman and they work 4 days on 3 off, so quite often will have long periods of no free 'premium' days.
It's all subjective I reckon.

 

Delving a long way back into the mists of time (when seeking dates), I had no concept of graded nights - I'm not sure men do, actually: after all, getting a girl to go on a date with you is a major plus at any time of the day or night, every day of the year! I think I may have written something along these lines before, but I do firmly believe that all dating and ...er, other subsequent events are determined, initiated and permitted by the female of our species, whatever we guys may think. What you suggest makes sense and fits in with that logic: we'd have no idea about such sifting of opportunities, can we be fitted in before a 'doing my nails' night or should it be after? Doesn't stop us asking, though, does it?

The only male equivalent, I suppose, used to relate to the number of beers one should consume on an early week night; Thursday and of course Friday were Big nights , Monday through Wednesday weren't. Being unable to be Present and Correct when on Parade was a distinctly career-limiting move

 

Knew that feeling well!!!!

 

Don't worry, man. I luv ya! (And not just because of the pile of performance parts you deposited here)

 

I think this is understandable, especially when you're not sure of them. Plus, it sort of keeps you a bit on your better behaviour, as said above, can't get too trollied on a school night. Well, you can, but do you want to?

Doesn't start you asking either! I'm convinced guys don't ask girls out any more.

 

Just after posting that post before I got thinking about trying to remember the last time a guy asked me out, and I don't think they ever have. It's been me who has done the asking.

I'm totally sympathetic to what you're saying Roadwart. Men just don't know what to do any more. And neither do women. It's the reason I hate "women's mags" and "lads' mags" - they present the gender roles as very 1-dimensional.

Personally, I prefer it when a fella treats me like a lady, and has some manners about him, but also understands that I like to work and I'm not a sex or baby machine. Just as I treat fellas like they're not cash machines, or completely devoid of feeling emotion.

Anyway, to break up the heaviness, T, where are you getting all these dates from? It's been a while, I should probably give it a go again.

 

Come on, ladies: we know you share us around like dodgy sweets or cigarette cards. And you attach score-cards to your recommendation! We just don't know what are the factors you are scoring and what are the weightings you allocate! Choco - go for it - life's too short to mope.

 

I hope you closed it in her face Paul!

Women read a lot more into things than men do, a man will think "I would like to see this girl for a date, when is my next free night", whereas a woman would think "I want to see this guy for a date but he has asked me out on a Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, therefore he doesn't value me as highly as he should so I won't go out with him"...

 

Russell, that way of thinking will lead only to a very dark place in which the wind blows cold, your shirts stay crumpled, your soul is starved and you are emotionally dead. Trying to mimic or even follow the thought pattern of the fairer sex is similar to seeking the end of the rainbow: theoretically possible but the mathematical chances of achieving it are smaller than ...well, a very small thing. Just be happy with your genetic lot in life - and ask every day until she says, "Ok, then".

 

Like men, us women vary wildly between what we score and the weighting of those scores.

And you guys are just as hard to figure out.

I'm not moping at the moment, just haven't seen/met anyone who takes my fancy. I do find it very odd though that guys don't ask girls out. Very odd. In the meantime, I have a bike to ride.

 

Reads: You can pee standing up, with varying degrees of accuracy and don't need a partner to accompany you while doing it

I ask girls out all the time, of course they probably can't hear me while fleeing at top speed... That or the exhaust noise drowns it out.

 

I sometimes used to find it hard to hide my 'enthusiasm', you know...like a panting dog. Must've made me look either disinterested or just bloody weird. Whatever it was, it didn't work much. He he

 

One guy I met at work, one I met clubbing years ago actually and he crawled out the woodwork and another from a canoeing weekend. You got to get out, a man aint gonna just show up at your door.

 

Nah, I just think that if you are so busy that the best you can do is squeeze me in for a Monday night, then you are just too busy for a relationship and this is never going to go anywhere so Im just going to save myself the trouble

 

They do on my door. Tesco, DHL, Royal Mail, City Link... Which raises another question, where are all the women couriers?!