#10 - "I’ve been thinking and this really doesn’t fit into my plan of things."
This is what my boyfriend in school told me. He couldn't plan his way down an empty street, let alone other 'things'. I think he picked this excuse randomly from some book.
#9 - "I think I’m falling in love with her best friend and I don’t know what to do."
I heard this in college from a guy who was dating a friend of mine. He ‘realized’ that he was falling in love with a friend of hers (not me, thankfully) and didn’t know what to do, so he tells another friend of hers – me. I wanted to throw up. My friend deserved better and I told her about the mindless jerk. She dumped him unceremoniously. Good girl.
#8 - "Come on, I couldn’t call you during my engagement! But you know I love you. Really."
A friend of mine, was cut up when the woman he loved got engaged to someone else. A day after the engagement, she calls him up and says these words. Common sense tapped him on the shoulder and he turned around and finally listened to it. Phew.
#7 - "I’m going to marry you. As soon as I divorce her."
Heard this one too often. All you smart women out there – dump the married man. Please.
#6 - "I don’t know whether my mother will like you."
This coming from a guy who was a few years younger than me was a bit too much. Bye bye, Norman Bates.
#5 - "I don’t how it happened, I’m sure I don’t love her. Really."
I once dated a guy who couldn’t spell ‘extraordinary’. This same guy sent his ex-girlfriend an ‘I loovvve yoouuu’ mail. And then, asked me to check his mail for him. Gave me his password. When I saw the ‘failure delivery’ msg to that mail, and confronted him – these were his brilliant words. Thank you, universe, for gifting me this ridiculous excuse to break up with him.
#4 - "I started feeling that you weren't there for me."
Two years in a long-distance relationship. I gave up my sleeping hours for this guy. Worked all day and then talked at night. There were nights I'd get 3 hours of sleep, and yet I'd get up and proof-read his projects. Then, I got a job where I had to travel a lot. A month later, I get this never-ending mail - which could be condensed to this one line. Said my goodbyes and spent the next half year travelling and NEVER regretted it.
#3 - "I can’t deal with how much you think."
Told to a friend of mine. Who is gorgeous, articulate, entertaining. But oh, she's also smart. Damn, I guess that was just too much for him. Well, at least he was smart enough to know how dumb he was. I'll give him that much.
#2 - "I think I like you as a sister/brother now."
Bleagh. I know lots of people who feel this way about their Ex's, but it's pretty gross to hear this when you're still in love with the other person.
#1 - "I didn't get the time. Really."
3 years of being together + one year of a bad break-up + one year of reconciliation. At the end of which I found out that he was cheating on me. When I asked him why he didn't tell me, I got this priceless gem. I had to laugh. Couldn't he have made something up? Something less mundane, something less boring? I mean 5 years of being together, one way or the other, deserved a little more imagination! Ah, well - it got to No. 1 on this list.
8 comments:
Well Hello Noor, it's really interesting to know that there was someone who could make you work all day and then talk at night. So wait, there were nights you'd get 3 hours of sleep???? Interesting, really interesting.
Anyway, is #3 whose I think it is? Rings a temple bell in my head, but the "gorgeous and articulate" causes too many of them to ring at the same time, hence throwing me off.
AnyAnyway, #2 works both ways. And in nosexinthiscity, it is more likely that you'll hear the converse i.e "i USED to like you like a brother THEN..."
AnyAnyAnyway, #1 doesn't get to do backing vocals any longer because he was moving to another time zone. Time's never on his side, is it?
@ Anonymous - We know your identity...ha ha ha! You gave yourself away! So anyanyway - We think your comments are going to make Noor write and write some more, and we like!
i love this blog ... makes me realize things from a different perspective ... which i never even think of :) ....
good going gals .. keep it up :)
LOL. Congrats on getting her to write! I loved her first post! And all of your earlier ones too, I've been a regular reader!
Now that she's got me to pop my comment-cherry, I promise to be more "interactive" :-D. Coz, you know, if there's no sex in this city and you can't beat 'em EVEN FROM MAXIMUMsexinthisCITY, you may as well join 'em(in the commentary box)!
@ Ankur: Why, thank you, we aim to please. Go forth and be a better man for realizing these things.
@ Anonymous: We are glad your comment-cherry was popped at the same time Noor lost her blog-post virginity. What fortunate coincidence. Keep up with the comments, you know how we literary geniuses crave compliments. You will notice that we modified your comment a wee bit--that's because we prefer to remain under our false identities. It's all very hush-hush, darling. No names, not even initials *wink, nudge etc*.
You didn't need to edit it!! I called you M, for Maya, and referred to N, for Noor!!
And now a J replies!! LOL!
My sweet anonymous - no no, you said M at both places and I freaked out :) Yes, M, N, J may not be as lyrical as S n M, but it's music to the ears of many many many women like ourselves...so sweet A for Anonymous, please fan our egos every now and then, and not just when N writes, ok?
Noor needs a profile pic! :)
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