This just happened to me. I have been playing dumb for weeks. You know, I can tell you like me but I’ll pretend I don’t notice because I like where this friendship is going. I mean I really like you as a friend, as a comrade, as an amigo (if you are Spanish speaking). But I am not looking to jump face first into your pants, and I definitely do NOT want to go on a date with you.
All of this pretending was working out splendidly until last weekend. When that one friend got a little too drunk and when that guy tells her that he likes me, that one friend drunkenly slurs, “YEAH, you should go for it! Make out with her!
I ran to hide in the bathroom.
The next morning, too drunk friend proceeds to excitedly exclaim, “I think I told X that he should go for it, I totally made it worse didn’t I?”
The lesson to be learned here is to be a smart friend. Make sure you know who your friends like. That’s not too hard, right? And if you know for a fact that your friend does not like this poor boy who she does really like as a FRIEND, don’t tell him the opposite, just because you are drunk and loving life.
So I will continue to play dumb, while my other friends pick up the pieces, making sure to tell him about that other boy I actually really do like.
And hopefully next weekend we will all just be really drunk again, because that solves everything, right?