Things never to do again:
1) Hold back any expression of confusion about paying twice for things in resturants or other establishments. Then, you feel cheated, resentful, and oh so petty. Then it busts out, gets the other person resentful about driving you everywhere, resentful about being interrupted, and that he loves you and you don't feel the same way. Or, he'll just negotiate some amount of money he owes you.
2) screw someone without checking for past reputation. Said host will warn you ahead of time that he is 'squicked' by the man's reputed cleaniness habits and past behavior toward a mutual friend, so much that you started to wonder beyond the joking if he really thinks less of you for having fun with someone.
3) encourage someone to rub certain parts too hard and too long
4) think homicidial thoughts about all the Greyhound passangers around me. Concentrate on the assholes assuming everyone wants to hear their conversations.
5) travel on Father's Day.
6) travel in Chicago, which in my limited experience really does the splashy corporate chain thing.
7) travel through Virginia, that home of pretentious office parks and gun nuts, er, I mean, Second Amendment activists. I know what I speak--I dated one. If you've ever been bored out of your mind while two guys geek about Glocks, you know why I fantasized about drolling idiot tests for gun licences. I don't want to take guns away from everyone, just exes.
8) bring a bad mood to someone I haven't seen in years, who I care about, who loves me deeply, who I am not sure I can love, that I can ever love anyone. I am either insensitive or too sensitive to others. He thinks I am perfect but no one is. I am told I am beautiful, sweet, but I feel full of anger and resentments I am afraid to fully understand.
9) ride a bus through a lightening storm. Oh wait, I enjoyed that.
1) Hold back any expression of confusion about paying twice for things in resturants or other establishments. Then, you feel cheated, resentful, and oh so petty. Then it busts out, gets the other person resentful about driving you everywhere, resentful about being interrupted, and that he loves you and you don't feel the same way. Or, he'll just negotiate some amount of money he owes you.
2) screw someone without checking for past reputation. Said host will warn you ahead of time that he is 'squicked' by the man's reputed cleaniness habits and past behavior toward a mutual friend, so much that you started to wonder beyond the joking if he really thinks less of you for having fun with someone.
3) encourage someone to rub certain parts too hard and too long
4) think homicidial thoughts about all the Greyhound passangers around me. Concentrate on the assholes assuming everyone wants to hear their conversations.
5) travel on Father's Day.
6) travel in Chicago, which in my limited experience really does the splashy corporate chain thing.
7) travel through Virginia, that home of pretentious office parks and gun nuts, er, I mean, Second Amendment activists. I know what I speak--I dated one. If you've ever been bored out of your mind while two guys geek about Glocks, you know why I fantasized about drolling idiot tests for gun licences. I don't want to take guns away from everyone, just exes.
8) bring a bad mood to someone I haven't seen in years, who I care about, who loves me deeply, who I am not sure I can love, that I can ever love anyone. I am either insensitive or too sensitive to others. He thinks I am perfect but no one is. I am told I am beautiful, sweet, but I feel full of anger and resentments I am afraid to fully understand.
9) ride a bus through a lightening storm. Oh wait, I enjoyed that.