Perhaps some boy can explain...

Not to be ungrateful, but...

After work, I went out for "one drink" with my secretary, a partner, and his secretary. One drink turned into another turned into me arriving home around 2:30. The weird part of being a girl is, the partner bought our drinks for us at happy hour (we each had two). Then I drove my secretary to her hometown where she was meeting her boyfriend and one of his friends at the bar. The next thing I know, it's 2 am.

Now here's the part I need help with. I went out with $64 dollars, I came home with $64 dollars, I played two games of bowling (my limit is about 6 frames, so the next game and a half sucked), one game on videogame bowling (I'm not very good at that at all...), two games of darts (I keep a set of personal darts in my car. Boys v. girls. I was on fire, but they boys won. I can get into how wrong that was - I had closed everything but 15, 17, and 18 before they had closed anything, but alas, we lost), we ordered three types appetizers around 7, we ordered Gyros at 2, and we had alcohol all night - at least six shots and eight amaretto sours. (That's what I remember but I think I'm pretty close to accurate.)

So here's my question. Why on earth do boys think that they need to buy a female drinks the entire time? My money absolutely wasn't good tonight. I threw it out several times. Each time I was told, "You get next round." When exactly does this next round occur? And more than that, they get drinks when you are half full, not when you are empty, so at any given point in time I'd have a drink and a half. I left $20 on the table when we left - whey wouldn't even let me pay for the gyros. What is up with that?? Let me help - you ain't getting any from me. No matter how much you buy me drinks.

Not that I mind chivalry, but I'd rather have a car door opened for me than drinks bought me me all night. And you don't want to get mad, because they are just trying to be nice. I just don't know what it is that makes a man decide that he has to buy a woman drinks. When she's already said, "it ain't going to happen."

Anyone?


I was talking and all of a sudden the one guy goes, "one in one hundred." He starts pointing to my eyes which, by the way, makes me all self-conscious. He says, "open your eyes, look here, do this." Ugh. Turns out that he believes that only one in one hundred people, when they open their eyes, have the whites of their eyes showing all around. Yes, this is too recent after the makeup eye fiasco for such eye attention. First, grr. Second, I can't imagine that's true. In my immediate family, I think that four out of five have that (mom, me, sister, brother). Bah.

Oh, I learned that: (1) my secretary voted for Bush; (2) my secretary's boyfriend, a Republican who I generally argue politics with, voted for Kerry; and (3) his random friend - who I evidentially made out with in June, not that I remembered him - is a strong Republicans in every offensive way; and (4) their other friend, who was not there last night but who I argued with back in June when I met him for the first time, moved from this "Navy" Republican to "brainwashed" - according to his own conservative friends.

And want fun. Someone told the partners at his or who review this week that, "I'm not really sure that I want to be a lawyer." And it ain't me. Interesting...