I have had a sad and rather difficult conversation with a lad who had been on the same course as me. I was heading across campus to the library when he came up to me and asked if I had a minute. We ended up having a cup of coffee and once we sat down he started pouring out all his woes to me. I started off feeling quite sympathetic – goodness knows I have poured out enough woes to various people over the last few years – but when he started talking about having no proper friends at university and never having had a girlfriend it all started to feel a bit weird. I could tell the way the way the conversation was going to go and sure enough it did. He told me that he had "fancied" me for the last three years and that he didn't want to leave university without telling me how he felt.
My Mum and Dad had taught me how to deal with all sorts of relationship issue but never anything like this. So I told him that I was flattered and that I was sure he would find a girlfriend soon and then I tried to distract him by asking him what he was planning to do next. He wasn't going to be diverted so in the end I had to get quite assertive. He seemed to have a grand master plan for our future relationship and he was less than thrilled when I showed zero interest.
Was this really as creepy, strange or unusual as it seemed at the time?
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