h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi, took me 6 weeks to read this thread up to date
Now looks like it could be dying.
Or is it just because its a Bank Holiday & everybodys got a NFG

it goes quiet from time to time

so welcome! ?

Thanks for the T , sorry I'm about to finish work.
See you all again tomorrow

You read the whole backlog!

Blimey!


welcome and have a

I never read the backlog..

Well, just to bring you all up to date in the latest hapless phase of my love life...

I met a lovely girl at a University reunion thing last Tuesday - first she crashed a fag off me in passing and I thought nothing of it, then she came over and asked for another one and we got talking.

And I was just talking really, just being interested and listening and being responsive and all. And then she went off for a quick word with someone else, and the (female) friend that had been standing next to me nudged me and said "you've pulled there."

I hadn't even realised, to be honest. She seemed a fair bit younger and prettier than me so I'd just been chatting and not thought about it in those terms. But then I realised I'd better do something about it, and went and found her and asked if she fancied meeting up for a drink some time. And - I kid you not - her face lit up. So I handed her my phone and she typed her number in enthusiastically, and I gave her a couple more fags and a quick (but very nice) kiss goodbye - it was closing time, and my mate wanted to rush off by then. But it all looked very promising.

And since then - nothing. I left it a couple of days before calling her, on the advice of my housemates, and rang her Thursday lunchtime. Got no answer, and didn't leave a message. That was probably a mistake... one of my housemates is pretty firm that you should get it all over in one call.

But, dammit, I'm not used to mobile phones in this sort of thing - last time I was doing anything of this kind, nobody had them! Which meant girls couldn't tell how many times you'd tried to ring them and you could be as useless and indecisive as you liked without looking over-keen, and keep trying until you managed to get through.

Rang back a couple of hours later, no answer again so this time left a message - but probably bungled that too, because in the message I said I'd try again later, rather than just asking her to ring me back. Tried again on Friday evening, and it went straight to answerphone - so either her battery was dead or she was on her way somewhere on the tube. Left another message and left it at that.

So I was hanging on the telephone all weekend. Fruitlessly. To be honest, I've almost given up hope of her ringing back by now. I've realised two things. One, I need to get the hang of this ringing girls on mobiles lark. Two, and more importantly, having finally progressed to the stage of remembering to ask for a phone number, I shouldn't be seeing that as an end in itself and assuming it'll all be plain sailing from there on. I should definitely have let my mate bugger off and stayed in the pub with her and talked some more rather than vanishing as soon as I'd got her number. But it *was* nearly closing time.

you never know, maybe she will call..

I would try phoning her again Number 6

she may have gone somewhere over the Easter weekend (parents or something)

or see if she's in that pub again

i'd be more inclined to see if she phones first...

Yeah, you've left a message now... I wouldnt phone again evereverever unless she phones first obviously.
She'll smell the desperation...
Even if you arent...

exactly....not quite how i wouldve put it but still!

Went out twice this weekend. Didnt pull any NFGs at all.
But as these were my first nights out walking after 2months of crutches, I just wanted to get absolutely w*nkered and have a dance...

Yeah, I did plenty of that at the weekend Until dawn at a house party on Friday night and at a small club night in a basement on Sunday. No available NFGs at either, although the best-looking two girls in the place on Sunday abandoned their boyfriends and spent most of the night dancing with me and my mate

Good for the ego, but nothing doing. But I did ask...

As for the girl, well, I agree that not phoning is the best thing to do because of the desperation factor.

But I've got to thinking. This is London, and I'm never going to see her again. So part of me thinks, it, I might as well give it a go and actually talk to her - I've got nothing to lose.

What I want to know is why she came on as positive about meeting up as she did, if she was going to behave like this afterwards?

Personally I would be flattered if I discovered a string of mis-calls and messages from the same person on my phone.

I guess there is an important difference between desperate to be with anyone and desperate to be with you.

she may have not got your messages though..or have no credit to return them..try once more perhaps

Like Ged said, maybe she went away for Easter and couldn't ring you as she got your number wrong or something?

Wait a couple more days and see if she calls

no more gos from you then footy?

No, this bloke I met in casino a couple of weeks ago texted me on friday night, but I don't think I'm going to meet him

I always seem to go for the wrong kind of bloke and if I see someone who I really like, they don't seem to be interested in me Trouble is that I only get attention from the blokes I'm not really interested in.

ive had that prob..try being more assertiveworked for me!

It's true! Blokes are constantly told (by their mates and accepted wisdom etc) that you shouldn't act over-keen and call too much and too often...

Like I said earlier, if someone likes you, they'll love to hear from you!

And if they don't, at least you'll know and can move on...