from a friend who cares…
I have
one friend who has asked to remain anonymous, and no this is not me, I
swear it. No one ever gives me elaborate excuses when they cancel on
me. They just get shady and never explain why or never speak to me.
However, this friend, over the past few months has gotten some of the
most elaborate excuses from girls that I have every heard. Seeing as I
have already labeled some A-D, we’ll call this person Friend E..yes, i’m being creative here 
Here’s what usually happens. E meets a girl, gets her number and
they speak. Then they make plans, or the girl will say she will call
him back. Then the girl will either cancel, not call him back, or not
call him, and send a TEXT MESSAGE the next day.
[AN ASIDE: People c'mon now...text message cancellation!!! If it
were guys, I'd say grow a set. If you are cancelling get some guts and
do it with some courtesy...technology sometimes makes us forget that
the people we are speaking to are...well...PEOPLE who deserve
resepect. END OF ASIDE]
Anyway, I’ve listened to his many phone calls and emails and the
most common excuses come into three categories. Death, Busy, Sick and
Car Accident. Friend E is apparently a relative killer. If you date
him there is a good chance that your uncle or grandfather will die. Or
perhaps maybe only a relative will be in a car accident. He also is
likely to cause you to get ill on nights you are supposed to go out
with him, or suddenly cause your schedule to fill up so much you cannot
find the time to make a 30 second phone call ("so hectic").
Given the unreliableness (is that a word?),…well now it is ;).. my friend E will make several
plans for a weekend expecting the usual cancellations. From this past
week, here are the actual excuses he received from three girls:
1) A text message an hour before they are supposed to meet on
Saturday night claiming that she was on her way to the hospital with
her parents because her brother had gotten into a car accident, and she
didn’t want to leave him hanging.
2) A girl that never called him back. E then sends her a message
saying why did you bother to give me your number if you were never
going to call me. She then calls and leaves a voicemail. The
voicemail is given late Saturday night saying that her Uncle had passed
away on Thursday. Every time she was thinking about calling him, a
relative would call. Imagine that, at every moment, the relatives
timed their calls perfectly.
3) My favorite one. Oh everything was hectic these passed few
days. I have not had a spare minute to make a phone call (sent by text
message)…which takes longer…composing a text message or a phone call??..hmm..
Now you really cannot call people out saying you don’t believe them
on the first two. The problem is, he gets these several times a month
(yes I know…E gets out a lot, and his habits are not pertinent to
cancellation excuses, so save the comments on that). The fact is, a
lot of relatives are dying and becoming erratic drivers, so much so,
that you just don’t believe them anymore.
So girls, and guys that do this, remember the girl who cried wolf
parable? This is going to happen to people because of all of you who
lie. Either that, or dating E is a curse upon your home…
M e L | s S a
