Amanda: another 22 year old, will I ever learn.

Ok, I just don't get women at all, but then again, maybe if I stopped dating girls nearly 10 years my junior, I wouldn't keep having these problems.

So I met Amanda through my friend Emily. They are cousins. I should have known from the beginning that dating a family member of a close friend was bad all by itself, but hey I went for it. Amanda was gorgeous. 5'11, 120 pounds soaking wet, absolutely beautiful. She seemed fairly intelligent and had a great dry sense of humor that I couldn't get enough of. She wasn't really the date type, so we would usually just meet for drinks and hang out. No fancy dinners or anything like that. It didn't take long before she began to show her age and drive me insane. All she every talked about was how her mom pissed her off, or her friend pissed her off, or a co-worker pissed her off. Constant drama. She would keep me on the phone blabbering about it for hours. I felt like I was a teenager we spent so much time on the damn phone. She also constantly talked about all of this stuff she wanted to do together. "I can't wait to take you to...." "I can't wait to introduce you to...." "we should quit smoking together", etc etc.

Yet, everytime I tried to nail down some time with her she would blow me off at the last minute. She said she didn't want to get into a relationship in a hurry, and I get that. But come on, all I asked is that if she makes plans with me, she keep them. I got frustrated after the third time she cancelled and told her I didn't see it going anywhere. She handled it very well. We both said no hard feelings, and that was the end of it. So I thought.....

I'm convinced these things never end cleanly. This one wasn't horrible, but guessing we wont be friends. Later that night, she texted me. I didn't save the message, so I am quoting loosely, but it said something like "you will never find someone as beautiful as me, you will miss me, and when you do, I won't answer the phone". Well I was a few beers in at this point and apparantly not capable of taking the high road. I am strangly proud of my response, but should never have sent it. I said "Baby, I'll replace your ass before the bars close".

Clearly, I have not heard from her sinse and suspect that I wont.

Oh well, on to the next one.