TheMonkeyKing
Master Don Juan
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On my commute this morning, I was presented with a couple, or rather a guy, who perfectly exemplifies things that shouldn't be done. It's not often you see such a glaring insight to the life of two perfect strangers.
His missus, probably a 6, maybe a 7 if she hit the gym and dressed up a little, was clearly bored sh!tless of this guy, as was I by the time he got off the train. In the following order, he broke most of the fundamental concepts of how to behave as a man.
1) The guy was out of shape, kind of like skinny-fat man-child meets dad bod, and dressed like a teenager. This is something I'm noticing more and more - how many guys just go around the whole time in non-descript, hoody-tshirt-jeans-trainers combinations; like they're still 12 years old.
2) Offering to hold the bag and coat of his woman while on the train. As far as I'm concerned, people who insist on carrying so much paraphernalia around with them can carry it themselves. Such was the dynamic between them, I could first work out if they were actually just friends or colleagues....
3) Incessant chatter so early in the morning. I'm not a morning person and clearly neither was this woman; her responses to him were brief and curt, bordering on outright ignorance at times - just sitting, doing her make up, hearing but not really listening to him.
4) Talking mainly about himself and in a very boring way; regaling such stories as how the train company over-charged and subsequently refunded him, then later some overly-finite detail about his incredibly mundane marketing job which, though he was enthusiastic about, is far from inspiring.
5) She then brought up their Christmas plans to meet each others' families, in the most un-enthused way I think I have ever seen. He started over-analysing the situation like a neurotic house-husband, talking about Christmases past, present and future; which was basically met with a kind of stunned silence from her, who was sitting next to me - I could almost hear her thoughts, 'This is my life now'.
6) Proceed to awkward forced kiss and an unreturned 'Love you' from him as he left the train and she remained. I'm pretty sure she was muttering something about meeting some other guy later on or something, to which of course, he acquiesced.
At this point, I'm not sure what to think..... It seems I should feel sorry for her; but then she is as much responsible for her own situation as anyone, in fact more so than anyone else. At least the guy has the excuse of such a profound lack of personal insight.
Do not be this guy.
His missus, probably a 6, maybe a 7 if she hit the gym and dressed up a little, was clearly bored sh!tless of this guy, as was I by the time he got off the train. In the following order, he broke most of the fundamental concepts of how to behave as a man.
1) The guy was out of shape, kind of like skinny-fat man-child meets dad bod, and dressed like a teenager. This is something I'm noticing more and more - how many guys just go around the whole time in non-descript, hoody-tshirt-jeans-trainers combinations; like they're still 12 years old.
2) Offering to hold the bag and coat of his woman while on the train. As far as I'm concerned, people who insist on carrying so much paraphernalia around with them can carry it themselves. Such was the dynamic between them, I could first work out if they were actually just friends or colleagues....
3) Incessant chatter so early in the morning. I'm not a morning person and clearly neither was this woman; her responses to him were brief and curt, bordering on outright ignorance at times - just sitting, doing her make up, hearing but not really listening to him.
4) Talking mainly about himself and in a very boring way; regaling such stories as how the train company over-charged and subsequently refunded him, then later some overly-finite detail about his incredibly mundane marketing job which, though he was enthusiastic about, is far from inspiring.
5) She then brought up their Christmas plans to meet each others' families, in the most un-enthused way I think I have ever seen. He started over-analysing the situation like a neurotic house-husband, talking about Christmases past, present and future; which was basically met with a kind of stunned silence from her, who was sitting next to me - I could almost hear her thoughts, 'This is my life now'.
6) Proceed to awkward forced kiss and an unreturned 'Love you' from him as he left the train and she remained. I'm pretty sure she was muttering something about meeting some other guy later on or something, to which of course, he acquiesced.
At this point, I'm not sure what to think..... It seems I should feel sorry for her; but then she is as much responsible for her own situation as anyone, in fact more so than anyone else. At least the guy has the excuse of such a profound lack of personal insight.
Do not be this guy.
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