I’ve been extremely anti-social since around October of last year. The flakiness of people in NoCal finally put me over the edge. You know how you make plans with someone and they’re running late? People here don’t seem to call or text at all. They just let you sit and wonder. Sometimes they completely fail to show! Then there are those that promise to pick you up in 20 to 30 minutes. Somehow those 20 to 30 minutes turn into an hour or more, in which case I might have dozed off while waiting for them. Once that happens, I’m content to just stay home. Lastly, there are those people that you invite to an event – say a concert or a dinner party. IF they answer you at all, they wait until possibly a day or two before the event, when you invited them at least two weeks in advance. It’s most embarrassing when you’ve made a dinner reservation at a busy restaurant for something like 12 people (based on their responses), then possibly 4 of them don’t show up, nor do they answer your calls or texts. In short, I’m just sick of dealing with people here. For the most part, I refuse any invitations to go out and do anything. In addition, I quit inviting people anywhere. The vast majority of the time, I go out and do things by myself. Is it lonely? Rarely, because I’m basically a loner, anyway.
This afternoon someone texted me out of the blue to see how I “was doing” and asked if I liked Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Let me fill you in a bit. This person is someone that I met through a friend of a friend. We’ve hung out a few times, but she largely annoys me. She seems a little scatterbrained (i.e. can’t remember where she parked, doesn’t remember the name of the restaurant or the other people there, etc.), in addition to asking lots of inane questions via phone once our “together” time is over. I say to myself “Really? Are we really having this conversation? How can she possibly drag such an inane conversation on for an hour and a half?” In addition, I recently defriended her (OMG, Becky!) on FB. Anyway, when I responded that I was ok and affirmative for Beyoncé and Jay-Z, she texted that she could get 2 tickets to their concert next week for $140 apiece, but she needed an answer right away before the guy sold the tickets to someone else. My first thought was that I don’t need to spend the money, with New Orleans coming up in August, then Thailand/Bali coming up in October. My second thought was that I probably couldn’t stand to spend at least 3 hours minimum with her. My third thought was to wonder exactly how good the tickets were for $140 apiece. She said that they’re in Row 20. Would that be Row 20 on the field (in which case I probably wouldn’t see much because it’s flat and everyone would stand up in front of my vertically-challenged self)? If it were Row 20 in the tiered bleachers, there MIGHT be a chance I’d consider going. I took my time responding, as everyone does to me. By then, she’d already asked someone else, who said “Yes.” Well, Beyoncé, we just weren’t meant to be. Plus, I DON’T NEED TO SPEND THE MONEY (but I would have liked to have had a T-shirt).