So today I was due to meet up with a girl I'd met on PoF. I got myself all ready and showered, got myself pumped up listening to my NLP triggers (the live album by Muse), and drove into town ready to take on the fucking world.

I arrived bang on time, 4pm, but she wasn't there. No worries I thought, but I decided to go and grab a coffee. Didn't want to be seen waiting around for her when she got there, I wanted to seem busy.

Plus, I went out last night and got really fucking drunk. I've been badly hungover today, and needed a caffine boost.

So I text her saying 'Just gone to Costa, meet me there'. I go and get my Mocha and a bit of cake, and sit outside with it watching for her. It gets to 4.20pm, and still no sign. I thought she'd stood me up - if she was gonna be this late, she'd have said.

Then she rings me:

HB: Didn't you get my text before?

CO: What text?

HB: I text you saying I couldn't make it, and have had to take me Nan shopping.

CO: I didn't get any text?

HB: Oh God, I feel awful. Well I can't make it, but we can do it later in the week?

CO: Its cool, I'll check my diary and let you know, maybe one night this week.

HB: Ok, that sounds good.

CO: And I'm gonna give you the bill for the coffee I bought, I think you should pay for it (jokingly).

HB: Lol ok... I feel so stupid.

CO: Nah its ok, I've got some shopping I need to do anyway (lie - obvs I just didn't want to leave her thinking I'd been sat there waiting for a date to turn up)


So I hang up feeling like a complete moron. I think "I didn't get any text". So I go back into my phone and to my messages. Sure enough, there it is - 1pm, she had text me saying she couldn't come and I hadn't bothered to read it. For FUCK sake!

So I texted her: "Shit you know what - I did get that text, just seen it now! Omg I'm such a whopper, that ridiculous! Kinda funny tho. No bother, lets do it one night this week xx Ps, I know secretly you just didn't want to me to see you on ice skates"

The last bit because we'd planned to go ice skating, and I was saying to her she was gonna be dead embarrassed cos I can't ice skate for shit.

I also updated my FB status to joke about it as well: CovertOperation is making the following mental note: read your text messages properly, otherwise you end up looking like a tit!

She's since clicked the 'like' button on that, and has texted me saying it made her laugh. So its pretty embarrassing I guess, but pretty funny. I've made a joke out of it all, and think I've rescued the situation. And we're going out tomorrow night instead.

But rule number one, and this bit doesn't come in David DeAngelo or Style or Tyler Durden or anyone else's stuff:

READ YOUR FUCKING TEXT MESSAGES!!!

Love and peace,
CO

dude, unlucky on this one, i got a flake today also, il prepare a thread...

Pic.

My flake came out tonight... FR here:

http://www.puaforum.co.uk/field-repo...ing-point.html

I think I was waaay too nice over the whole flake thing tho. She started early on saying how sorry she was, and I said sorta 'Its totally my fault, dont feel bad'. I shoulda busted her balls on it. Playfully.