Wow !
2 yes.
and, now, 19 'no,' which is four more 'no' votes than the last time I tallied.
Hmmmmmm.....
Maybe the word 'quickly' makes the poll so one-sided.
I just think that if a guy doesn't just give up after one time it shows the girl that IF they are actually IN a relationship, that, that, THAT he is not going to just give up at the first little disagreement they have over something; he is going to be brave.
Brave?
Hmmm, maybe, that's not the best word. Do girls understand how truly hard it is for we guys to ask them out ? Let me explain, as I already explained to dear ole meggarsmoisell. It's the really only TRUE thing I can think of that can bring on a fainting SPELL. SEriously.
OK, I'm going to tell you what happened one time in high school, of my being brave. I was as calm and cool as could be, being a soccer star and just not ever even thinking of crying. Up to that point in my life, IF I had to count how many times I'd cried in some situation--minus umpteen times my dad and mom swatted me with belt, and, stick, respectively
-- it would be less than five, I am pretty sure. So, here I was 17 years into my life and NOT a crier, but.....
After school one day, I finally worked up the nerve to ask a girl out so I was going up to her and I was, like sweating bullets, and, I mean, bullets, my perspiration big beads coming off my head could've loaded a BB gun. And, as I began to say the word,
'Would you like to go out with me,' my voice began to crack and then whine and, then, the tears. The TEARS !! They were streaming down my face, I was sobbing much better than any temper tantrum fit throwing baby, though I was not mad at her, of course. I was just soooooo in a state of doing something that I'd NEVER truly done before.
OK, so what happened at that point?
Well, you can guess. She said 'no.'
I, then, walked away, not crying anymore, and, actually feeling exhilarated, because I'd done it !! I had thought about asking this girl out I'd met originally in freshman math. And, here, as a JUNIOR, I finally done did it !! I asked her out ! I was happy as a kid with his hand in a cookie jar and no one around
And, then, the strangest thing happened next. This 'asking' was a Friday afternoon after high school I'd asked this girl out and then, I was at home Sunday night and I got a phone call...............
It was HER ! OK, I'm not going to make this all fairytale happiness, I wish I could, but, I can't. She was calling because of some reason I can't remember now, it was like to let me know of something our junior class was doing, a food drive or something.
Anyway, to make a long story shorter, I told her I would participate and did NOT mention the fact that I was a blubbering fool that last Friday and that I really did like her and that I would not cry in front of her again like that. I hung up the phone and never ever asked her out again and she never showed an interest in me again my junior year, senior year.
OK, moral of the story: Guys, be ready for the unexpected. Because, I think, that any of a number of people calling about the food drive could have called me and she called me ! I think, she wanted me to say something !! To say, "OK, I messed up. But I really like you."
IF I could have said those few words there, who knows, we might be nearly 40 years into marriage now.
Anyway, this is the ladies thread to vote and for guys, mostly to listen, but, IF you have a story of asking out a girl , go ahead and tell it.
Anyway, GUYS, don't we want the miladies to hear how HARD it is for us to muster up the nerve to ask them out.
I wish, back when I was 17, then, a junior, asking that girl out, I would have had God more in my life, I wonder, if, deep down inside I cried, because it's kind of like someone said, I think, it was relena, but, my life was NOT great at this time, chaotic, messy, parents in middle of divorce and I was just not really caring much about church even though God was in my life.
Anyway, that's a story, maybe, I should make another thread and tell that one, i dunno. The Lord leads
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