giddyup

Perception is 9/10ths of the law. Or something like that. The way I see things right now, there’s a stable full of boys for me to peruse. This doesn’t mean they’re all thoroughbreds, or a good ride, or haven’t bucked me off once or twice, but they’re still hanging out in the stable, and it’s up to me when I want to visit and who I might take a ride with. (Apologies for the extremely ponoriffic analogy).

The contenders:

Tall, dark, and handsome.

Met him through a friend who decided he was too young for her, he’s a talented chef, and on the first ride I was impressed. He was well dressed, polite, attentive, and had the most intriguing eyes. To top it off, my friends loved him. That wore off quite quickly after some less than impressive behaviour. The last time we went out, he didn’t even get out of his car to get me, he just waited outside and texted me. It was raining. He had 3 hours of sleep and was hungover. Any excitement for the date was quickly quashed from the get go. He’s gonna have to really work to impress me now.

Mysterious Blonde

Met him at beer fest, after mistaking him for a homosexual. Since then, he’s sent some extremely passive aggressive texts, where he’s ‘just wondering what you’re up to’. This makes arranging a date extremely frustrating. If you want to have a drink with me, ask me. If the time/day doesn’t work for me, I’ll suggest a new one. I don’t like beating around the bush. Which I told him. Then he asked me to make out with him (surprising me with his directness). Which led to a sloppy session, me feeling used, and him not man enough to contact me to clear the air. There’s been some tenuous steps to contact me since then, but all, disgustingly passive aggressive. This one might linger in the stable forever.

The ‘Young One’

We’ve had some great correspondence. He’s a good writer and attentive to responding to the specific points in emails while engaging me at the same time. But I usually don’t do younger. It’s hard enough with all of the man-boys out there (See 'Messed up' ex, below). But the other two are floundering, and I’m intrigued. TBD.

The Outliers:

The ‘friend’

He’s put the moves on me more than once. But we have a really good time together and I have told him very directly several times that we’re just friends. We’ve hanging out a lot lately, and he knows a lot of other hip horses. However, he doesn’t seem to play well with my horses, which indicates a bit of jealousy to me. Do platonic friendships ever really work out? I hope so in this case ‘cause I really like this one (as a friend).

The 'messed up' ex

Heard through some friends that he’s really on the party train right now, and this makes him a hypocrite for negatively branding me the same way and letting everyone think he was so hard done by me when we broke up. We have seen each other randomly since January and had a really nice time together. So nice, in fact, that I said maybe we should give it another go. I'd thought we'd both got the buck out of us over time. I did appreciate his honesty in telling me that I was the only girlfriend he ever had and he feels he hasn’t had time to experience other girls. But judging by the way he's going about it, and his newfound resistance to growing up, he'll probably end up with a really young really flighty horse and it's probably better this way. Basically, he ran away from the stable (which he's done before, obviously), but who knows, he might come back, and I may or may not be ready to go for another ride.

Then there’s the wild horses I haven’t even met yet . And that doesn’t make me forsake the stable, it just makes sure I have enough ammo to be discerning. I wanna make sure I'm getting a good ride before I buy the horse (and the hay too!!). Or, maybe i'll decide to revert to my lone rider status. Whatever the case, the wild west is rockin' right now.