Humiliating Dating Scenarios
1) My friend Bob was the typical
nerd programmer. He was brilliant and
talented but with few social graces.
After a while, he started earning some real money, so he bought a brand
new sports car. It was expensive. On
Friday of the first week of ownership he had a date with an attractive woman he
met through a dating service.
The car was beautiful. He drove to the woman’s house and picked her
up. He decided to take the freeway so he
could impress her with the speed of his new car. After turning onto the entrance ramp he
gunned the engine and lost control. The
engine was more powerful than he had anticipated and there was light mist of
water on the pavement. The end result
was that he drove straight into the retaining wall on the entrance ramp and
ruined the car. It was not drivable and
had to be towed away. It took three
months to get the car back.
Furthermore, his date insisted on
being taken to the hospital and claimed that she had injuries. She later sued him for damages in court and
won.
Bob thought that he was a race
car driver, but he was mistaken. Owning
the car doesn’t make you a good driver. Always remember that driving is
dangerous.
2) My friend Bart was working for
a sales organization doing canvassing from door to door. He was part of a team assigned to the city
and was paired with an attractive female coworker. As a team, the two of them would go house to
house. One took one side of the block
and the other took the other side. Then
they would break for lunch. The weather
was very hot, since it was the middle of the summer, but Bart found his
companion charming and really enjoyed the work. Every day they would have lunch together and
talk. She was a great conversationalist
and he enjoyed listening to her voice.
The second week they worked
together Bart found he was falling in love and was sure that his partner felt
the same way. One day at lunch, when
they were sitting in the car talking, he tried to kiss her.
Pulling back abruptly, she was
shocked and insulted. “Bart! What are you doing?” she cried.
After explaining his intentions
and professing his love for her, she coldly responded, “You
idiot. Why would I want to fool around
with you? Not only am I engaged to be
married, but I have a boyfriend also.”
And then she demanded to be
driven back to headquarters where she filed a sexual harassment suit against Bart. He was removed from the sales teams and
assigned new work in the office.
Eventually his contract was shortened and he was laid off.
Bart thought that lunch time was
personal time, but he was mistaken.
Lunch time is still company time. And don’t you ever forget that.
Copyright©2014 William Schaeffer
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