Short notice

Right, I’ve done it; I’ve pulled the plug on potential Date Night 2. I just couldn’t bring myself to go on a date with a boy that was going to be a whole head (if not head and shoulders) shorter than me, no matter how good he looked on paper. Well, on paper when you miss read a couple of vital pieces of information, obviously!

            I’ve had a couple of days to worry about this, and failed consistently to come up with a good get out clause. You can’t tell someone that they’re too short to date – it might be true, but I’m too proud to admit to being that shallow to stranger. You can’t tell a person you’ve met through an online dating site that you’re no longer looking for someone to date, because everyone can see how regularly you’re online, so if he checked back and saw that I’m still checking messages each day, he will know that I’m a dirty rotten liar. What a pickle!

            In the end, I went with a combination of two different lies; I told him that I had been on a couple of dates with one person that I had met online (LIE – I’ve been on one date with a boy that made me want to dig my own eyes out with a spoon – never again) and that I wasn’t really comfortable dating someone else at the same time (again, LIE, I know for a fact that boys go in for multiple dates until they’ve ‘had the chat’ about whether that’s against the rules or not, so I’ll be buggered if I’m not planning to play according to the male rule book rather than the female one).

Still, sometimes you need a good lie to cover your back, and whilst I haven’t had a reply just yet, I’m hoping that this one will help me through without too much backlash. Fingers crossed!