Two strikes and you're out!

So a week ago Sunday, I went to dinner with Red. He was acceptably “nice” but not my physical ideal – being red and all. We had a decent enough time. I sent the usual “thank you text” around 10 p.m. that evening. He replied the next morning (Monday) around 8 a.m. with a “nice to meet you, too” text.

On Wednesday evening, he sends a text, “Hey hope your week is going well. I may be free for lunch on Saturday or Sunday if like to get together again?” (Yes, I’m leaving his typos, although adding punctuation so it is easier to read) My first thought is “may be free?” May?? Either you are or you aren’t. What the hell is may? I replied about 40 minutes later, “That would be nice but I play soccer on Saturday afternoon and have a “ladies brunch” on Sunday.” An hour later he wrote, “I have aband party on Saturday night. Maybe we can do Sunday. U play football and soccer damn that’s cool.”

I didn’t reply. Mostly because he didn’t ask me specifically what and the first request was for lunch. And, since I had brunch plans, lunch would be impossible. His stupidity was strike 2 (red is strike one) so I didn’t answer. I figured if he wanted to do something, he needed to ask.

Yesterday at 4:30 p.m. he wrote to me, “I hope you are having an awesome day and get a chance to play outside. It is beautiful.” Now how the hell am I supposed to respond to that? Really? What was that about? Men are so stupid!

My thoughts…Red had a date planned for the weekend. Thus the reason for putting me off til late in the weekend and never following up. But the date didn’t go well, so he felt the need to text me on Monday. I could be wrong….just being cynical. But any which way, I’m thinking kickball here: 2 strikes and you’re out! Or as Rachie would say, “Next.” (which I had already thought, just hadn’t said!)