Showing posts with label fix up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fix up. Show all posts

Monday, April 1, 2013

The Fix Up Followup

As the minus seven regular readers of The Complete and Total Loser read last week, the Loser was invited to dine with a couple he knows who also invited a woman the same night. The Loser wondered—and feared—that it was an attempt by his friends to pair him with someone so that he might know a tiny bit of the happiness that people in committed relationships are sometimes said to have and maybe even have someone get close enough to the Loser that she'd be there to find his dead body in the not too distant future before it rotted enough to annoy neighbors with its stench.
It was not, he deduced early in the evening, a fix up. While the woman was single, she was far too young for the Loser and gave off no signals that she was there for anything but a meal with friends. 
This made the Loser sigh. If you'd heard the sigh, you would be unable to distinguish it from a sigh of relief or sadness.

man with bad teeth
This is what the Loser thinks he looks like.

Friday, March 22, 2013

If it is a fix up try, it's likely the last.

A friend invited the Complete and Total Loser to her and her husband's house for dinner next week. But not just him. She invited a woman she knows too. 
This never happens to the Loser, and he's not sure that's what's happening now; she may just want to have friends for dinner, and the Loser has yet to see her house. She is, however, a romantic and a little mad about some things, in nice ways, usually. 
People don't try to match up the Loser and it makes perfect sense to him. If he were in a position to match someone up, he'd want, if not love to blossom, the people involved to at least feel a little flattered by the attempt. 
The pitch between his friend and the other woman would go like this:
Well, he's not very tall, five nine, and he is bald. He's cripple too and wears a funny shoe people laugh at. He didn't do well in the workplace and makes a third of what the average man his age makes. Oh, and he's never had a serious relationship or even a girlfriend.
He'd be perfect for you!
Not flattering, right?