By: Curious

Curious — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:30:11 +0000

I used to date a guy who thank me for joining him after every date. It got annoying because I wasn't doing him a favor, but dated him in the pleasure of doing so. Eventually we ended up breaking. He seemed to have lost intereste in me with time.
Now I'm interested in a friend and we've been spending allot of time together. Normally it's very casual and we often go to the theatre since it's cheap on a Tuesday night. I notice that lately he's been acting a bit indifferent in my company and for the first time ever he thanked me for the simplest thing like joining him to watch a movie which we often did to begin with. When he thanked me i felt like saying “i didn't realize that in watching a movie with you tonight i was actually doing you a favor”. Instead, I said “thanks for having me”. We're not strangers or acquaintances who see each other once every few months or years, unless he, now, wants to be. I think this thank you business is silly, especially with this situation because he made me feel like I helped him kill, waste, do something with his free, and boring time. It's not like this was the first time I've gone out with him, so his “thank you” really annoyed me, especially because we've been seeing each other a few times and week and has never thanked me in the past for “comming out”. How would you interpret my experience?
Anyway, we're friends and I thought he was interested in me so I developed an interest in him, but like I said he's been acting a bit indifferent, yet has been calling me regardless and the thank you is like the icing on the cake. I would call it “KILLING SOMONE WITH KINDNESS”.

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By: Curious