Is Stupid tattooed on my forehead?

Self,

I'm sorry but I'm blowing off steam again. This sort of thing shouldn't bug me but at the same time it is one of my biggest pet peeve when trying to date/get-to-know these boys.

Yesterday, I was on yahoo IM chatting with Schehimazade, (he's not the problem - this time lol!) Well, I get a message from someone that I don't think I spoke with hmmm since like January. (I now realize why, but I'm getting ahead of myself.)

The message was just "hey there I haven't seen you on here in a while."

Well I don't use yahoo much so all I could do was agree, I hadn't been on in a while. Well we make smalltalk for a bit. He then asks to see a picture. Well there's already a picture of me on Phoenix (my motorcycle,) right there in the message window, while he only has the goofy picture of some mutt dog wearing glasses with slightly bugged-out eyes. But whatever. I tell him to send me one and I'll send me one back.

This is what he sends me;


A picture wearing big sunglasses - can't see much of what he looks like, right? Well my gut says he's playing a game and not to be bother....but I play along and give him a dose of the same thing. So this is the picture I sent back.


Don't you know, he had the NERVE to complain and say he couldn't see anything because my hand was in my face!

I, of course, pointed out that I couldn't see much of him either because of the sunglasses. (So as far as I'm concerned we're even.)

He actually sent back, "But you can see more than I can." WTF????!!! Does the sunglasses in his picture magically disappear when you look at it....because that wasn't the case for me. I guess I'm stupid for going along with this childish stupidity in the first place from a 42 year old.


The funny/ironic/frustrating thing is that I don't care that much about the picture, I wasn't concerned about it until he asked. And if it never came up it wouldn't have been an issue. What irks me is the game playing about it. If you ask to see a picture of someone in the hope of getting know someone then be a man and send a picture that's a representative of yourself!

You know as I'm sitting here writing this, I realize that yesterday was full of selfish stupidity.

Somewhere in the madness above, I get a call from this other dude who lives in Long Beach, which is down near my parents. We had planned to meet Sunday after I had finished visiting my parents, but just as I'm about to get on the freeway to head into Long Beach he calls saying his roommate just got home with some friends and they going drinking or something. Not a problem, I turn around and head home. But he suggest that he'll come towards me in Glendale to meet. Okay. So he call about 7pm last night, apologizing for not being able to meet because he forgot that he had to work and was calling while riding the train home from work. Okay. He asked about my day and what I was doing. Well at that moment I was getting ready to meet a friend to help him with his taxes. I tell him so.

"Oh, are you and accountant?"

I respond, "No, I'm not an accountant, just helping a friend out with something. What about you, what kind of work you do?"

"Ahh yeah, well I rather not get into that because people always say they do something similar." (WTF!?!? What does that have to do with us having a conversation now trying to get to know each other.)


Crickets. "HUH, hmm Okay???" I said. Crickets. "Well, how was your day?"

"It was good, no complaints."

"Aiight, cool. Well, I'm driving and traffic on this freeway is starting to back up so let me get off here and focus." I said while sitting at a red traffic signal. "Take care."

I was annoyed but I didn't have the energy, desire or the time to make an issue of his bullshit. If you can't have an open conversation then we don't have much reason to continue to talk.

Maybe I do have stupid tattooed on my forehead, since it would seem that I'm the only one to think that it only makes sense to give to others what I expect in return. I'm sure with BOYS like these this will come up, so Would it be wrong if he calls back and tries to ask what I like to do sexually that I say "Ahh yeah, well I rather not get into that because people always say they do something similar?"

LOL ahh but here's the kicker, if I did say that would he get it? Or would I just become the crazy guy? My life...... Right?

Sincerely,
Pharaoh