Okay, so I think I'm officially old.

[DarkTirade]

The cute 19 year old who's been flirting with me lately called to see if I wanted to go see a movie tonight, and I was too tired after a long day of work and school and whatnot to drive all the way out there.

Granted, the theater she was going to is all the way on the other side of town... long drive and lotta gas to waste just to spend money on a movie ticket. But still. I think this is the sign that I'm officially turning into an old party pooper. :P

[BarenakedLady]

1. Don't make me come over there

And kick your young ass with my dentures, sonny!

[DarkTirade]

2. Ironically, if I'd still been on your side of town I probably would have gone

'cause then I could have just taken a straight shot up 490 to get there. :P

[Lincolngirl]

3. Hey, BNL

I'll come with and hold the young whippersnapper!

:spank:

[DS1]

11. How did I know you'd be the first one to respond to this thread?

hmmm?

[BarenakedLady]

22. Because I'm old and cranky?

:shrug:

[flvegan]

4. Wait...she's 19?

Okay, I'd have gotten my old ass up and showered to spend time with that. And I'm pretty sure I'm older than you.

Damn, 19. You know she'd be all sorts of thankful for even the cheapest of beers, yo.

[DarkTirade]

7. Actually the age difference is kinda weirding me out.

I totally thought she was in the 21-24ish age range when the flirting started. :P That's the problem with hanging out with geeks. It's hard to tell maturity when they have a bigger vocabulary than most people twice their age.

[flvegan]

10. I've lost the ability to tell age in women.

I was in an orientation/training thing today, and this one shy girl was there and I swore she couldn't have been 14. Yeah, she was in college.

[DarkTirade]

15. Yeah, I'm horrible at judging age visually.

Which is why I've been hesitant to make moves on anybody on campus. :P

[MrCoffee]

43. That's the most romantic thing I've ever seen in the DU

[JVS]

5. I would have suggested watching a movie at your place and splitting a bottle of vodka.

[DarkTirade]

6. Actually, she'd be more interested in my mead. :)

And she's already joked about trading sexual favors for a bottle.

... I'm kinda hoping she wasn't joking though. :P

[JVS]

8. Yeah, you totally should trade mead for sex! And also avoid the cost of movie tickets

[DarkTirade]

9. I got all these moral conundrums goin' on right now...

but I definitely know to avoid paying full price for movie tickets... :P That's a moral imperative right there.

[GOPisEvil]

12. Jeez...19 is less than half my age.

What a way to go. :P

She called YOU? Dude, that money would NOT have been wasted. Just sayin'. ;)

[DarkTirade]

16. Are you kidding? I probably wouldn't have seen a single scene of that movie...

totally wasted ticket money. :P

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. Let's do the math on this one...

cute 19 year old

+ flirting with you lately
+ called you
+ to see if you wanted to go see a movie tonight, but...
+ ...you were too tired after a long day of work and school and whatnot to drive all the way out there

= cute 19 year old who's thinking "I guess he's not interested."

Carpe diem, my friend. If you didn't want to go because you're not interested, that's cool and entirely up to you.

But if you really think she's cute and you have any interest in her at all, either as a friend or a partner in crime, and she asked you out, another option would have been to throw your tired ass in the shower and grab a cup of coffee or a Coke or a Red Bull or whatever the hell you like and wake yourself up and make the drive across town and let your friend enjoy a movie with her friend who she obviously likes because she called him up and asked him out to a movie.

:toast:

[DarkTirade]

17. I'm not too worried about that, the flirting's been mutual so she knows

I'm at least interested. :P

[Tuesday Afternoon]

37. well, she now thinks the interest is waning.

dude...you fucked up. sorry. I bet she cools her heels. I know I would.

[Tom Kitten]

14. I wanted to go see The Monks documentary at the Hollywood

but alas nobody asked me out...

[DarkTirade]

18. I haven't heard about that one.

But I don't have a TV, so I miss all the ads and whatnot about upcoming movies. :P

[Tom Kitten]

20. never advertised on tv

I just learned about it through chance on the internets

[Left Is Write]

19. How old are you?

[DarkTirade]

21. I just turned 27 last week.

So there's 'bout a seven and a half year age difference. A bit more than I'd like.

[NewJeffCT]

30. dude, when you're in your 30s

you'll regret not dating her.

see my post below.

[Parche]

23. last time i was with one of those

Rabbits, nothing but rabbits

[DarkTirade]

39. She only has one rabbit.

She's thinking about buying it a bigger cage though, so... :P

[redqueen]

24. Are you really interested in her?

I get that you're flirting and all, but I'd think if you were interested then there would be no 'too tired'.

I know that's how it works for me, and I'm waaaaaay older than you are.

[DarkTirade]

40. Right now I'm kinda of a 'whatever happens happens' opinion.

I'm interested, but I don't wanna force it if it ain't gonna work.

We've got a tentative date scheduled for Saturday though.

[Arugula Latte]

25. Hey 19 ... The Cuervo Gold, the fine Columbian, make tonight a wonderful thing ...

:evilgrin:

[Redstone]

26. No. You're "officially old" when you can't remember the last time a

cute 19-year-old flirted with you.

Or if one ever did.

Redstone

[insanity]

27. I feel you!

I'm a spry 22, but I'm getting old and tired. I feel way older than most of my friends these days.

[Bake]

28. GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!!

Old! Bah!

Bake

[NewJeffCT]

29. how old are you? Between my marriages

when I was in my mid 30s, I dated a ton of college-aged women - which was odd, because when i was in college, I hardly dated any women that age (or of any age, for that matter)

[av8rdave]

31. No. You're not old. Let me explain what being old means

Being old is when you wake up on November 5th and realize that the President of the United States is going to be younger than you are.

Pity/sympathy accepted.

[DarkTirade]

38. ... I turned a year older on Nov. 5th, does that count?

:P

[av8rdave]

44. Only if you're older than the President - elect!

Realizing that was a big moment for me. It had the same impact as my college days when I suddenly realized all the Playboy playmates were younger than I was.

[AlCzervik]

32. no you're not old, i'm old. There was a thread in gdp "Does anyone under 30 remember Reagen?"

i remember seeing Nixon resign, i was in the living room with my parents and we were watching it on a Zenith television.

[Left Is Write]

34. I remember watching Nixon resign too. I didn't really understand -

I'd been hearing the word "Watergate" for a long time and didn't know what it was. I knew that my father did not like President Nixon. I was 8 when he resigned.

I'm old enough to have voted against Reagan in 1984.

[AlCzervik]

35. i didn't understand it either, i remember asking my mother how can the president just quit?

she told me he was a bad person and he was leaving to go get better.

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[DarkTirade]

41. I do believe that's the best advice in this thread so far...

:P

[mnhtnbb]

36. I married first hubby--he was 29 and I was 21. Age difference wasn't the problem.

Second hubby I married was 43 and I was 34 and we've been married 23 years.

[blueraven95]

42. nope, it means you aren't that into her.

:hi:

[4_Legs_Good]

45. Yeah, that's old

really old.

And sad.

:'(

I totally understand and could see myself in that place too, but damn, it should take a lot of tiredness to keep one from going out with a cute 19 year old... :evilgrin:

David

[FlaGatorJD]

46. You're only as old as the girl you feel!!!

:pals:

[fizzgig]

47. pfffffffft

:P

that's ok, my idea of a fun friday night is curling up on the couch with my guy, a couple of beers and a movie. hell, going to bed at midnight is late for me now, but that's partly because my guy works early now, but even when we don't have to work we're in bed early. i've almost forgotten what the inside of a bar looks like, never mind a movie theater.