Crys : I met him again later. I said hi and he started stammering.
Sue : Stammering? Oh, he likes you for sure. He’s speechless !
James : Or scared you’d seen him chatting up that girl around the corner.
More missiles . Poor James.
Tina : I got a question. There’s this guy who only calls me when he’s high. What’s with that?
Crys : Simple. Dutch courage. Booze makes people do stuff they’re too scared to do while sober. Or too sensible. That’s why you can name-call your boss when you’re drunk. You always hate him, but when you’re sober, you know you’ll get fired. So you do it when you’re drunk.
Tina : Maybe…coz whenever he’s sober he avoids me.
James : Probably coz he’s embarassed about calling you at midnight. Doesn’t mean he likes you.
Sue : Aw c’mon. If a man calls me when he’s drunk and says he loves me, it must mean something.
James : Sure. It means he got drunk, picked his phone, called you, and said ‘I love you.’ Kwani?
Crys : Fork jembe! It’s obvious that he adores her and is just too scared to say it!!
James : If a man loves you, he will love you when he’s drunk and when he’ sober. And if he really wants to be with you, he’ll take you seriously enough to say it when he’s sober. Several times, just to be sure you got the message.
Crys : Sigh. I give up. Women and men will never understand each other.
James : You’re genius! Applause to the lady.
And the final missile flies.
James : I don’t know why you bother. You know you have lousy aim.
A few more missiles. These ones land right on target.
Tina : But we don’t!
Sue : Bull’s eye!!
So, in conclusion, four lessons:
1. Girls, if you want to know what a guy means, don’t ask your girls, ask him. Immediately. Before he forgets what he just said.
2. Guys, if you like a girl, tell her. It will save her hours of agony wondering whether that was a wink, a blink, or a drunk mosquito lost in your eye.
3. Girls, men call spades spades. They can’t tell a soup ladle from a dessert spoon. So take what they say at face value. Save yourself the drama, don’t analyse.
4. Guys, women will analyse everything you say, don’t say, do, or don’t do. We will start with the colour of your shirt and end with the direction you chose to tie your shoe. Don’t try to understand it, just accept it, live with it, and try to help us out by being less cryptic when you flirt.
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