if you think that then you are wrong!

ok.
so this one time in high school, this guy asked me to go to a dance.
and apparently he knew i hadn't been asked to it yet.
so he asked me.
and apparently i told him i couldn't go because i'd already made plans to go spend the weekend with my sister who was at college in provo.
but apparently he knew that was a big, fat lie.
because apparently i hadn't made the plans until after he had asked me to the dance.
and aren't i a jerk.

a lousy, dirty jerk.

you know, and i'm really glad i can tell you folks this story today because... well... i'd forgotten it.
but apparently this guy has not.
and when he runs into people who know me, apparently he likes to tell them that story.
about how i said no to a date.

SEVEN FRICKIN' YEARS AGO!!

!

!!

sometimes i forget the effect i have on men.
it is my gift, but also my curse.


seriously though, i'm trying to think of something i'm still bitter about from high school...

Comments

kat said…
got it.
everyday i'd try and get a sprite from the vending machine, but it would always give me a diet coke.
it was very annoying.
i'm still pretty bitter about it.

except that i love diet coke now.
crap.
Em said…
the only thing i could think of was this...
my senior year, my high school counselor wouldn't let me sign up for a mandatory english class because they were all full. and when i explained to her that i needed the class to graduate she said that that was just too bad. and i asked her if she would then be the one to call my parents and tell them that my high gpa, numerous ap classes and ridiculous involvement in just about every high school club or organization was just not enough to make me eligible for a diploma because there just wasn't enough room for one more student in any of the english classes. she said she wouldn't call them. which forced me to break into the school's computer system and put my name on the roll for 3rd period english myself. tragedy averted. idiot.
i don't remember her name. but if i did and i met somebody who knew her, i might feel inclined to bring up the situation. but probably not.
barnesanova said…
i asked a girl out once, jess l. we'll call her. i had met her a couple times through friends at parties (no, not sexy parties, just parties), and finally i got up my mullet-havin nerves to ask her out. i said hey, would you like to go see a movie sometime, grab some food, whatever? she said 'with you? ... no'. oh, um... ok, i guess ah, i'll just go impale myself on the fence post. thanks!
Nama said…
my junior year, the regime was crackin down on flipflop-wearin, and i was all like "screw you!" and then i got sent to the office one day for wearing flipflops. then i questioned my vice-principle and principle on this new "policy" and told them that the student handbook only said that we had to wear shoes. they snuck into the office with a handbook and came back to me with the conclusion that flipflops "weren't shoes", and therefore didn't fit the student handbook. my vice-principle then wrote me a pass saying that "amanda klein can only wear flipflops today." i did. just my little was of sticking it to the man.
Jon said…
Once the principal called me and my cronies/peeps in because she thought we were going to stage a wide-scale student walkout in protest of teachers' wages being cut. It was so fun watching her squirm in her little seat. She was so scared! Rumors of the walkout had even leaked onto the radio. That REALLY made her nervous.
Chester B. said…
I graduated from High School a semester early and got a nice little stipend for College.
I'm only bitter that I didn't get out of there sooner.
Ben said…
I still tell the story of when a girl slapped me in the face for no apparent reason, and that happened two-and-a-half years ago (and she's married now [how, I'll never know]), but I doubt I'd tell people about a rejection years ago-- mostly because my life is usually (though my Rocky Mountain Hell, Colorado experience has been a break) good at providing me more humorous and current rejection stories.
Nama said…
hehe...jon had cronies...
Jay said…
What DIDN'T I do in hike skool?!? Am I bitter about any of it? not really.

The only thing that I remember being really pissed off about was the Jamacian Assistant soccer coach that I had that tried to be the head coach. During one really intense game, I let a goal go in to the net and he took me out of the game. That really sizzled my bacon. After sitting on the bench for a few minutes, he decided to put me back in. At that point, I was steamed ...flames...FLAMES...from the side of my head...heaving...heaving breaths...
you get the idea.
Anyway, when he was yelling at me as I was about to go in, we both stared each other, neither of us backing down. I think that was the most disrespect I've ever shown anyone... ever. I only remember that because if there was ever a time I wanted to take someone down out of anger, that was the moment.
Anonymous said…
I'm not a bitter person. I don't hold grudges (for long). Now I think the main reason for this is that my memory fails to grasp anything worth remembering. I can remember stupid things like... uh... okay I guess I can't even remember the stupid things! I'm just glad that no one else gets ticked off that it took two years for me to learn their name. Sorry if you're one of the unfortunate many!