Originally Posted by
allegro
^^ The weird thing about that is when I was a girl, nobody "taught" us that; many of the BOYS actually ACTED like that. It was like the boys didn't know how to process a crush, so they acted the opposite. And it made us females HATE them. (I think it was because we were a lot more mature than the boys.)
When I was in my early-20s, I was with a group of friends in downtown Detroit to see the annual fireworks on the Detroit River. The fireworks were over, the crowd was thinning out, one of my girlfriends and I were waiting for the guys to go get the car, and we were standing in front of a popular concert venue, St. Andrews.
Suddenly, this guy comes up to me and says, "are you [says my full name]?" Um, yeah. He says, "I'm Marty S___ and I was TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH YOU in Jr High School."
I was, like, um ... Seriously??
He says OMG yeah, totally.
So then the car arrived and I said, well, nice seeing you again, and my friend and I got in and left.
AND THEN I TOLD MY FRIEND: MARTY HAD TORMENTED ME all during 7th and 8th grade!!! Thumbtacks on my chair, throwing shit at me in class, the whole nine yards. My friend and I laughed for about 10 minutes while our drunk guy friends in the car squeamishly admitted to having done the same stupid shit to girls they liked. I FUCKING HATED MARTY BECAUSE OF THAT SHIT, but too much time had passed and I figured he was probably pretty embarrassed for being such a DICK.
Not ALL the boys were like that; I think the worst time for that stupid boy abuse shit, really, was 7th and 8th grade ... Puberty.