Thank you, Dictionary.com App. Thank you.

El Conquistador

So we went for a walk, and after a couple blocks of small talk, she suggested we get to talking about what she requested the talk for in the first place.

I was expecting her to say something like, "I like you. Are you interested?" And then I'd say no, and she'd try to convince me that I was, bringing up plenty of examples of that time I texted her or that time I told her she was fun, or whatever.

But instead, she turned to me and said, "You are so rude to me."

Whaaaaat???

That's actually what I said in real life, too. "Whaaaaaaat?" Kind of like the minion in Despicable Me.



Ha ha ha! That's hilarious.

Anyway, she follows it up telling me she was serious, and that she's never met anyone who has been so rude to her, and that she feels like I'm nice to everyone else but am a total jerk to her.

As evidence, she cited the text I sent her to reschedule our date and the following conversation.

I was totally taken aback by that, and defended myself adamantly.

It was a crazy long conversation so I won't go into all of it here, but I do want to share something I thought was funny.

Throughout the entire conversation, she was super negative about everything, telling me she thought Happy Valley was a big fake bubble where everyone is naive (Even though she's from here. Psh.) and how her boss is an unethical idiot and this and that, and it was just not fun to listen to.

So once I'd had enough I told her to stop being so pessimistic. Then she looked at me with almost hatred in her eyes and said, "I'm not pessimistic. I'm jaded."

I told her they were synonyms, and she put her hands on her hips and disagreed. I wasn't about to give into her so I told her they were basically the same thing again, to which she again said she wasn't unpleasant and negative, just jaded.

So I pulled out my phone and opened up the Dictionary.com app to settle it. I typed in jaded, scrolled through the definitions, and saw these beautiful, beautiful words:

Jaded
[jey-did]

1. a worn-out, broken-down, worthless, or vicious horse.
2. a disreputable or ill-tempered woman.

I could not have engineered a better set of definitions for that very moment in time. Thank you, Dicionary.com. Thank you so so much.