Dating… what a fun thing it is. At least for me it seems that there is always something going wrong with the people I hang out with or date. But I guess that is why we date, so that we find someone out there that we are compatible with.

Along with my last story of “Up All Night”, this is sort of the continuation story of that crazy day. As you can tell by the title of the story, it ends with me sort of holding a girls hand. Let me try and explain the situation.

I have been hanging out with this girl named Summer for a few weeks now. My roommate Joe likes the girl and wants to date her. I think she is cool and she is fun to be around, but I don’t want to date her. And for Summer she likes me and does not like Joe as someone that she would date. If you were following any of that, that is a bad triangle of love. This makes things really weird.

The real weird thing about this is that I know everything because both of these individuals talk to me and let me know what they feel. Joe wants to date her and Summer talks to me and has been flirting with me in front of Joe to give him a hint that she does not have interest in him.

So the other night when I was really tired and was up for 36 hours. I was sitting on the couch trying to have a social life and we started to watch the movie Frequency. I sat down knowing that I was going to fall asleep. When I sat down on the couch, Summer came up next to me and sat down and sort of was leaning on me. I just thought that this was another one of her flirting schemes that she was pulling off because Joe was in the room. So I did not think much of it and I just sat there.

I was in and out of dream land. Part way through the movie, I lost my sleepiness, and I was alert and attentive. Summer had her arm on mine and was making a move. My mind was racing and I did not know what to do. I was looking for an out, but nothing came up, so I just sat there with her arm on mine.

As the movie progressed, her hand moved on top of mine. I was going crazy. Should I have pulled away, or was it good just to sit there and wait for her to pull away. I think that the rules in holding hands were not understood that night. My understanding of the rules of holding hands is that if you don’t acknowledge that someone’s hand is there you need to pull away after a certain amount of time.

I waited for her to pull away for over 10 minutes or more. I could not just pull away. The movie was coming close to the end so I thought I would just tough it out until it was over and then move. But nope, I am a moron. I was going crazy so I moved my hand to acknowledge that she was there, but I did not hold her hand. I sat there in a sort of holding hand position for a minute or so and then I found an out. I got away from that stray hand of hers and did not really hold her hand.

I wish that the girls I liked would be that forward. But that is not the story I want to tell you tonight. My story is that this girl did not know the rules of hand holding and made my life very stressful that night. I think I might just have to head up a book on this topic to help those that are dating. Maybe I will entitle it, “The Dating Playbook with Rules and Regulations”. And of course that book would have to be illustrated. The rules of sitting on couches, holding hands, and other dating techniques that are very complicated and hard to understand.