Blog 5: There are worse things than being single.

In honor of Valentine’s Day I have decided to tell you about my past dating experience. I do not have much experience with dating. In fact, I have only been on a date with one person, and that was the summer before my junior year of high school. This story is a little odd, but it is true.

The boy who I went out with is not named Bob, but we will call him Bob anyway. Bob was nice to hang out with, and we had been acquaintances/friends for a couple months when Bob asked me out. I was flattered and thought Bob was a nice guy, so I said yes. Bob and I were a couple for a little while before actually dating. I was not yet old enough to drive, so we just talked on the phone and ate lunch together with some friends at school until my parents agreed to let us go on a date. We decided to meet at the park and go for a walk along the gravel hiking trail. I enjoy hiking, and so it was nice, well most of it anyway. Near the end of our hike, Bob decided to tell me that he is a vampire. Yeah, I had to ask him to repeat what he said because I thought I had heard wrong too. Bob saw the weirded-out look on my face and became annoyed. He insisted that I did not believe him and angrily walked away. I was slightly confused, and my mind automatically jumped to the twilight books and thought maybe he was trying to make a joke and I just didn’t really get it. The next day, we were talking on the phone, and Bob brought up the vampire thing again, and I laughed, thinking it was a joke. Bob got angry and insisted that I would never believe him.  He went on to tell me about some kind of thing that made he and his parents vampires but not his little sister.  I realized that Bob actually thought he was a vampire and awkwardly told him that I would talk to him tomorrow before school and hung up. I had never broken up with anyone before and was not quite sure how it goes, but I knew that I wanted to break up with Bob. All my friends had always talked about how bad it was to break up with someone over the phone or a note instead of to their face, so I decided to do it before school the next day. Bob must have guessed what was coming because he kept calling and sending me messages on my cell phone asking if I was going to dump him and saying that he loves me and that I am his soul mate. We had been a couple for like a month. I got really scared and dumped him over text message, not caring if it was socially taboo to dump someone without being face to face with them.

For the next month or so, Bob kept calling and messaging me and would wait beside my locker between classes. I moved all of my stuff to a friend’s locker and stopped answering my phone. I was scared. With the help of some of my friends, I avoided Bob during the day and just kept my phone off at home. Eventually Bob left me alone and moved on and I no longer had a stalker.

I have not dated since. I have flirted with a few guys here or there. I get kind of down every now and then because I don’t have a boyfriend, but it usually doesn’t last too long. Many single people feel kind of lonely and depressed around this time of year, but after Bob I have learned that there are worse things than being single.