A late night wouldn't be complete without an early morning phone call to rub salt in the wounds.
All I wanted to do this morning was sleep in and be lazy until my Directv appointment at 1, instead I was jarred awake by the sound of my phone ringing at 7:20a.m.
It was the Directv guy asking if I could push his appointment to 8 a.m. Seriously?! Did he know what time it was? What was he thinking? It's 7:20 in the morning! I was half awake, which is probably why I agreed to it.
Another instance of a time when I should have 'just said no'.
Instead I agreed with one caveat... that he give me at least until 8:45 so I could caffeinate and grab some food to help sustain me until he planned on leaving.
He agreed, and I set out to Starbuck's... of course... grabbed my coffee and breakfast and came home with the goal of watching all my DVR'd programs before he arrived.
Perfect timing. I managed to make it through Project Runway with a few minutes to catch a quick nap before he arrived.
While he was here, we struck up a conversation which is only natural when you have a stranger in your home I suppose.
But the conversation got a little awkward. First he asked me if my husband would mind if he moved a few things on the tv stand in one of the rooms.
Huh? Husband? I thought I heard him wrong so I just ignored it and moved the pictures.
Not to mention the safety factor of telling a random installation guy that you live alone.
A little later I had to make a decision on which room to place the final receiver and I needed some help because I was so exhausted I could barely remember my name let alone a crucial decision about where to put a tv.
I told him I was going to call my friend, and he said 'why don't you call your husband? He would be able to help right?'
Ok enough was enough. This time I told him I wasn't married and he apologized for thinking I was. I don't know why he felt the need to apologize, I'm perfectly happy not being married.
Later, he told me he could help me with my yard, and he could take me to Mexico... that is... 'once we get to know each other better, because it would be a little weird now.'
O... K...? I thought it would be a little weird regardless, considering he is married!
What is wrong with men? Maybe it was a harmless invitation and I'm just too sensitive to it, but I doubt it.
The older I get the more I realize those conversations are mostly intentional, and it baffles me.
Do they think they are so very cool that women all over the world are lusting over them?
Or that we are so desperate as single women in our 30's we'll take them up on their offers?
For my own sanity I'll leave it in the category of men are from mars women are from venus and chalk it up to our innate differences.
Whether it's nature or nurture the events of the day leave me sitting here knowing full well why I am single and being very happy about it.... at least for the time being.
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