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1PM Fridays

Today was the first of the 1pm Fridays at work.  In the summer time, from May through August they allow us to leave at 1pm.  It's nice to have that extra 4 hours of personal time a week.  I usually come home and do things that I have on my to-do list and just basically use that time to be productive.

Today I went out for a quick lunch with coworkers.  After lunch I went to pick up some extra strings for my guitar.  Now I'm home and starting to do things around the house.  I might head over to the rooftop yoga/happy hour event at Whole Foods that the yoga studio is coordinating, but I think I'm just going to stay in and work on the stuff I have to do.  Right now I need to mow a little more lawn, then sign some documents and return those for homeowners insurance and car insurance...

I have to also do stuff for camp.  Etc. etc.  Work on music...

There's always things to do.  Respond to messages on various dating sites.  You know.  That kind of stuff.

Speaking of dating things... SO, we're out at this place grabbing lunch, and it's basically a bar type place.  So we go in... and there are three of us in our little group, but aside from that, the bar is mostly full, but it's only guys at the bar... SO, it's just ALL guys at the bar.  I mean... ALL guys.  Because basically only guys go to bars at 1pm on a Friday to sit and drink.  Girls will sit at a table and go with their friends, which is exactly what happened.  So next in walks two girls who sit at a table... We were also sitting at a table... so they were more near where we were sitting.  Two girls in a room full of guys.  One of my coworkers is also a girl.  SO, it's ALMOST a room full of guys.

Well... they are sitting there ordering food and they have a drink a piece.  You can tell that they just wanted to go grab lunch and that they are friends/sisters/coworkers.  Something of that sort.  They ARE NOT there to pick up guys.

So what does one of the guys at the bar do?  He buys the two girls drinks.

The bartender came over and gave them the little upside down shot glass to indicate they had a drink a piece of their choice.

Now, mind you I'm listening to this class from Yale called Human Emotion.  They talk about dating behavior and romantic behaviors in bars.

Right there before my eyes, the guy did the exact thing that guys generally do when they are interested in a lady... and the ladies?

They did the exact thing when they are NOT interested even in the least.  Which they were not.  They just wanted to get lunch.  They didn't want some guy trying to woo them with drinks.

That must be kind of insulting really.  I was thinking like, it probably gets old.  All they wanted to do was go out and grab food for lunch and maybe a drink and here this guy is essentially doing the drink buying equivalent of waving his wang in their faces.

It just irked me.  Oh well.  I don't know if they actually ordered an additional drink.  Maybe they only wanted one, the drink that they had, and not an additional drink?  Maybe they were scared that the guy would follow them out to their car.  Better take the drink and thank him for it?  But why should they?  That's BS.  He basically forced himself into their lives in that moment.  If they were interested they would have gone up to him and talked to him.  You knows?   All I can say is... that crap must get old... fast.

Everywhere you go some guy is trying to get in your pants.  It's like back the heck off.

I feel like maybe there should be a ring or something that girls can wear and if she's wearing the ring... You can't hit on her.  Doesn't matter if she's single, or taken... Or whatever...

Well, she has on the "I'm not interested in getting hit on" ring.  So back off bro.

That's just how I feel.  But why should women even be forced to wear a ring to indicate they aren't in the mood to have guys hit on them?  That's just ridiculous.  That's what that is.

Anyways... I'm going to get working on my to-do list of stuff.  I have off work now until Tuesday, which is pretty sweet.  The plan is to really accomplish a lot and check a lot of items off of my personal to-do list.  Woo hoo... productivity!