tl;dr

So I guess the answer is just sit back, relax, and just go with the flow, because it's pretty obvious I can't do anything for myself.

How ya doing, buddy?

You and me seem to like the idea of getting the last word in. I WILL DUEL YOU FOR HOURS IF I HAVE TO.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

My parents were more concerned about me doing better in school than anything else. I was even less apt to be social in school than I am now (which shouldn't come as a stretch, since I had very little self-esteem up until high school, when I started getting a little more).

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

If you can find a free and online version of that book, I'll read it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

At this very second? Nothing. I'll go to work later, see if Erin got my voicemail and see if she wants to talk about it. Whatever happens, happens. The only thing I'm hopeful about now is trying to save face and salvage some sense of neutrality between us. Otherwise, I'll see if the other person I've been trying to hang out with wants to do so.

I'm thinking I should just suck it up and give up trying to make friends for the time being. If there's only two people that interest me and neither want to hang out then there's nothing I can do about it. No one's coming to me and asking if I'd like to hang out, and they never have...so what does that say about how people see me?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I don't see a difference.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

If you're not willing to spend $10 to own a book that may or may not help you improve your life, you don't deserve it.

Edited for accuracy.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Since one half of that book is apparently about business and the other half is stuff I'm sure I'm fully capable of (I can talk to people, I'm definitely eloquent, people like me), no, it's not.

(Edit: Hey look! A Table of Contents of shit that already looks pretty much like what I'm capable of doing now! That would be an exploratory adventure in wasting :10bux: right there.)

So, my only problem is I need to find social situations and feel comfortable meeting random strangers.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by a lurker

I didn't bother to read the thread, but it looks like he's mopey thath e has no friends and never had a girlfriend, but he wants people to seek him out. Is that right?

I have one friend I've been hanging out with for months, and I seek people out to hang out all the time in the last few weeks. Other than that, yeah, I've never had a girlfriend and prospects haven't been peachy (though they are better than they've ever been).

Double Post:
Well, the ship has sailed for Erin and I to be friends...for the time being. The best excuse she could come up with was my initial foray into getting her attention was a little more aggressive than she was expecting, and she's uncertain where I stand as far as whether I want to be her boyfriend or just a friend. Looks like we're in for a looooooooooong cooldown period. I suppose I messed up by going as quickly as I did, but if Erin wasn't willing to accept that I was willing to accept being a friend, then there's not much I can do about that.

Meanwhile I also discovered today that she was talking about the details of my voicemail to her to someone at work (so now at least one person knows about it). Now the fun begins!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Thankfully I'm not as bad in real life as I am on here.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Twenty-two.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by eks

Perfect. This weekend, go to a bar with some friends, get some alcohol in you and try approaching some girls. Let us know how it goes, too.

So, let me get this straight: go to a bar with my one friend, who is 20 and has a girlfriend already.

AWESOME PLAN.

I was speaking idiomatically.

He doesn't have a license.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I don't see YOU resisting either way...

FELIPE NO

I haven't said anything. But this topic is dead anyway.

How ya doing, buddy?