Day 232: The no win set up situation

I woke up hoping I wouldn't get another call from the bar owner.

Thankfully that didn't happen as I started to realize what was going to be a busy weekend had just turned into yet another lazy one and I was perfectly happy about it because I have a busy week ahead of me and I'm still trying to recover from Vegas... oh and Friday night out.

I had plenty planned, but everything fell through, and I'm just glad it did.

The Encourager gave me a quick call to see what I was doing on Friday.

We planned to go to sushi a few days ago, but it was never set in stone so the plans fell through and it was time to reschedule.

After we had it all planned, and were getting ready to say goodbye, she snuck in a little comment 'oh and I'm bringing someone'.

What? Bringing someone? She's got something up her sleeve because if she was bringing her husband or daughter she would have said it.

Why do people feel the need to do this? The last guy she set me up with is the guy I think looks like my brother, so I'm hoping she's not bringing him.

But then again maybe that would be better than the previous plan with this guy which was to have him call me out of the blue, and we never connected.

I'd much rather have a group setting where it's more casual.

Although I am starting to question the entire premise of the 'set up' through friends.

You're in a no win situation. It's hard to say no because you'll get the third degree from your friends, but if you do say yes and you're not interested then you're dragging out the situation.

You also can't just blow the guy off like I did with Starbucks and the bar owner. It doesn't work that way.

I've been giving this a lot of thought recently because the BFF and her boyfriend tried to set me up last weekend.

The guy is funny and we all laughed and had a great time, but I'm just not sure there is anything beyond friendship there.

Don't get me wrong I'm very happy my friends think enough about me to try to set me up, I just don't like being in the middle.