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That's just horrible. . . but funny.

I feel ya, I have been feeling the same way

would I sing that to you? Hmm. . if I knew the music to it. . sure!

Ode to the Nice Guys
This rant was written for the Wharton Undergraduate Journal

This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that
never become more than friends, that endure hours of whining and
*****ing about what assholes guys are, while disproving the very point.
This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on
but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open
doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the
changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that
obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny/sexy their female
friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need
that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds,
with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the
guys who respect a girls every facet, from her privacy to her theology
to her clothing style.

This is for the guys who escort their drunk, bewildered female friends
back from parties and never take advantage once theyre at her door, for
the guys who accompany girls to bars as buffers against the rest of the
creepy male population, for the guys who know a girl is fishing for
compliments but give them out anyway, for the guys who always play by
the rules in a game where the rules favor cheaters, for the guys who are
accredited as boyfriend material but somehow dont end up being
boyfriends, for all the nice guys who are overlooked, underestimated,
and unappreciated, for all the nice guys who are manipulated, misled,
and unjustly abandoned, this is for you.

This is for that time she left 40 urgent messages on your cell phone,
and when you called her back, she spent three hours painstakingly
dissecting two sentences her boyfriend said to her over dinner. And even
though you thought her boyfriend was a chump and a jerk, you assured her
that it was all ok and she shouldnt worry about it. This is for that
time she interrupted the best killing spree youd ever orchestrated in
GTA3 to rant about a rumor that romantically linked her and the guy she
thinks is the most repulsive person in the world. And even though you
thought it was immature and you had nothing against the guy, you paused
the game for two hours and helped her concoct a counter-rumor to spread
around the floor. This is also for that time she didnt have a date, so
after numerous vows that there was nothing serious between the two of
you, she dragged you to a party where you knew nobody, the beer was
awful, and she flirted shamelessly with you, justifying each fit of
reckless teasing by announcing to everyone: oh, but were just friends!
And even though you were invited purely as a symbolic warm body for her
ego, you went anyways. Because youre nice like that.

The nice guys dont often get credit where credit is due. And perhaps
more disturbing, the nice guys dont seem to get laid as often as they
should. And I wish I could logically explain this trend, but I cant.
From what I have observed on campus and what I have learned from talking
to friends at other schools and in the workplace, the only conclusion I
can form is that many girls are just illogical, manipulative *****es.
Many of them claim they just want to date a nice guy, but when presented
with such a specimen, they say irrational, confusing things such as oh,
hes too nice to date or he would be a good boyfriend but hes not for me
or he already puts up with so much from me, I couldnt possibly ask him
out! or the most frustrating of all: no, it would ruin our friendship.
Yet, they continue to lament the lack of datable men in the world, and
they expect their too-nice-to-date male friends to sympathize and
apologize for the men that are jerks. Sorry, guys, girls like that are
beyond my ability to fathom. I cant figure out why the connection breaks
down between what they say (I want a nice guy!) and what they do (Im
going to sleep with this complete ass now!). But one thing I can do, is
say that the nice-guy-finishes-last phenomenon doesnt last forever.
There are definitely many girls who grow out of that train of thought
and realize they should be dating the nice guys, not taking them for
granted. The tricky part is finding those girls, and even trickier,
finding the ones that are single.

So, until those girls are found, I propose a toast to all the nice guys.
You know who you are, and I know youre sick of hearing yourself
described as ubiquitously nice. But the truth of the matter is, the
world needs your patience in the department store, your holding open of
doors, your party escorting services, your propensity to be a sucker for
a pretty smile. For all the crazy, inane, absurd things you tolerate,
for all the situations where you are the faceless, nameless hero, my
accolades, my acknowledgement, and my gratitude go out to you. You do
have credibility in this society, and your well deserved vindication is
coming.

Fu-zu Jen, SEAS/WH, 2003

I was reading the posts through this thread, and there were a lot of
good questions to ask others. But here is my question for you all. .
what would be inapropriate or uncomfortable questions to get asked in
your opinion?

Well, I was dating this guy for about a year. we were very close and
broke up not too long ago. (maybe a month ago) I had cut it off because
I wasn't very happy with how my life was at the time. I just found out
that he randomly called my friend and asked her out. Well, it doesn't
sound like they have even hung out since then because he lives about an
hour and a half from where we live and she doesn't drive.
I found out about this today, and I'm finding that I am rather jealous
an upset about it. I expressed my emotions to her and she didn't seem to
care.
What should I do?

okay that was just cute. lol