The Long Drive to Disrespect

So, Donna invited me over last night since apparently her Spring Break is this week and she is thus lacking in the usual schoolwork. I accepted as usual, seeing as I had little else to do, but the evening didn’t really go so well. The particular set of friends she had invited over this time are just the sort of boisterous guys that I really have trouble interacting with in general – the immature type that are constantly making gay or sex jokes. I’m just awkward around guys like that, sharing queer jokes just isn’t really within my personality scope. At any rate, the guys caught on to me being uncomfortable pretty quickly and spent most of the evening making mocking homosexual advances at me and just trying to annoy me in general. Not that it was really that bad, but an hour and a half is a long way to drive just to get mocked for a couple of hours. It was bad enough that Donna was actually really apologetic to me for her friends and kept trying to force her drunken boyfriend to apologize too, which resulted in apologies that were about as genuine as you’d expect from a completely wasted guy. I was originally going to spend the night over there, but I can only take so much mocking, so I opted against that. I was just going to make the midnight sojourn home, but I called Erin to see what she was up to since I was already in town and she invited me to crash at her place, which I did.

I did get to hang out with Erin for a couple of hours, which at least made it a worthwhile trip, despite the fiasco at Donna’s. I should really probably stop hopping down to see Donna every time she invites me over, the only reason I keep accepting is that I made a pledge a while ago to not turn down social situations if at all possible, though obviously I’m not gaining a lot from nights like last night. This socializing stuff would be a whole lot easier if I could find more people who had something resembling an adult maturity level.

Oddly, I’ve actually started seeing Erin a lot more since I finished my undergrad last year and moved to another city – it’s really a shame that we didn’t attempt to hang out on a regular basis when we were living within 5 miles of each other. It’s not like either of us had a blossoming social life that would have prevented us from being pretty active friends. It’s actually one of the bigger regrets of my collegiate life that I didn’t make more of an effort to develop an “in-person” friendship with her when I had the chance (and I’m not just saying that because she can read this!).

Anyway, not sure what the moral of this entry is, other that than Donna’s friends still don’t like me and that Erin is still pretty cool.

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