Prompt: Saturday Night
Tell us about the most exciting big night out you had recently.
Dear Agony Ant,
What are the worst possible things that could happen on a Saturday night date? Because I think they just happened to me.
Sincerely,
WTF
Dear WTF,
Without question the two worst possible things are:
1. Going out on a double date with your boyfriend’s best friend.
So, you and the best friend don’t get along, mostly because he is everything your boyfriend is not: cocky, arrogant, self-absorbed, sexist, and is none too fond of you, either. You are an adult, right? You can handle this. What you can’t handle is your boyfriend, as the evening wears on, soaking up the friend’s assholery like a sponge, so that when you are alone in the car, driving home, he turns into his best friend. This leads to an argument.
2. Arguments in the car.
There is no escape when you and your fellow combatant are stuck in a moving car. Crawling into the back seat does not help. Shouting sounds twice as loud and three times more hostile. Silences are highly tense moments when you both think of something even worse to say.
And when the boyfriend stops the car, opens the passenger door, and in a grand gesture worthy of his best friend, snarls “Get out!” you have a decision to make.
Do you exit the car in the dark on a country road and hope you get assaulted so boyfriend will feel terrible? Or stay put and stew silently, planning a revenge which includes no sex, ever, for all eternity? Either way, catastrophic.
So avoid the above two situations.
By the way, WTF, what happened to you on your date?
Peace and love,
Dear Agony Ant,
I met my new boyfriend at a hotel bar, and he just disappeared, leaving me alone on a bar stool. Second, I lost my purse, or it was stolen. So I had no money and no phone. Then the hotel called the police and I was arrested for prostitution because I asked the guy on the stool next to me for some money. What’s worse, I think the boyfriend stole my purse.
Sincerely,
WTF
Dear WTF,
WTF, indeed.
Love and peace,
Fluffy Pool 