You Look Hot Today

Woes From My Unfortunate Interaction With A Man

I do not even know how to start this story, but stay with me; this is certainly one of the craziest things you will read today.

I attended a meeting and was taking minutes, so I was sitting in front, facing the other people. Now, I wore a short dress to the meeting. The meeting was corporate, so whilst my dress was short, it was still appropriate. After the meeting ended, we took pictures and were preparing to leave the meeting room. One of the people who was in the meeting came to talk to me and said, “You look hot today.”

That is not a compliment that I expect from somebody like that. When I say that, I do not mean they are anyhow. I mean, the relationship I have with them doesn’t allow them to use a compliment like that on me.

Out of politeness, I accepted the compliment and said thank you. We were leaving the room, and I went to an office in the building to see an acquaintance. On arriving at the office, I found that the acquaintance was not there, so I decided to wait.

As I was waiting, I got a call from an unknown number. I picked up the call because, well, you don’t know, you never know, and the person on the other end said, “Are you still upstairs?” and I said, “Oh, yeah, I am,” and he said, “Come downstairs,” and I said, “Sure.”

And so I went downstairs and saw the guy I initially thought wanted to talk to me about a message he had sent me during the holiday that I had not replied to. He wanted me to be a member of his committee, but I did not think I was free enough to handle another responsibility, so I did not reply to him, which is not exactly a good thing to do, but I did not care.

Unfortunately for me, when I got there, he did not mention the message he had sent me during the holiday. He said, “Oh, let’s go upstairs,” and I was unhappy because I was just coming down. If you wanted us to go upstairs, you should have come up instead.

But we go up anyway, and mid-stairs he asks me if I have a boyfriend and says that I should give him my number, and so I’m like, ‘Uh, what the fuck is this? But I gave him my number because, anyway, we are in quite a few groups, and he can get it from there.

After I give him my number, I start walking back to the office, and then he says, “Oh, please, let’s go downstairs.” And I look at him with utter shock and confusion. I mean, we are just coming from downstairs; why are we going back there? But I go anyway, so when we get back downstairs, he begins to say absolute shit.

He starts by saying how I look hot again, and then I’m like, ‘This is very strange. If you compliment someone by saying they look hot, you have said it before; you do not need to say it again, and if you do, you have ulterior motives.

A part I did not add is that when we were going from upstairs to downstairs and from downstairs to upstairs, he tried to hold my hand, but I brushed it away. So basically, I was already feeling weary of this boy, and he was telling me bullshit.

Now, as he was talking about how pretty I was, I was just thinking of how to remove myself from the conversation because I was not interested in being complimented by this young man. And so I was listening, but I was like, ‘Yeah, sure,’ giving one-word replies.

Like the olodo he is, he obviously didn’t get the cue and kept talking.

And then he repeats the boyfriend thing, and I say, ‘No, I don’t have a boyfriend. I don’t date. He says, ‘Oh my god, why don’t you date?’ So what do you do? And I’m like, “Wetin dey worry this one?” Mind you, all this while I’m not facing him; I am looking elsewhere and talking to him, and if you know the body language thing, you know I was not interested at all.

The boy decides that it is very wise to take it a step up, and he says, “Do you want to be friends with benefits?” Ah! Friends with benefits kee????? Who dig this pit for me???? 😭😭😭😭

The young man is taken aback by my reaction to that request and goes on a long journey or “I can cope”. Where he tries to reassure me that there is something to benefit from being friends with benefits with him. I am unable to reconcile his words with what I see and I plunge into greater despair.

If you know my spec at all, I like fat men. This guy is thin; in fact, he is thinner than I am. There is no way on this planet that anything can happen between us.

But he is persistent, and then he starts saying, “Oh, if you don’t want to date, what do you want to do? What do you now do?” It doesn’t make any sense to me, and so I’m laughing, but I’m not looking at him still, and so he says, ‘Look at me now.’ Why are you not looking at me? And I just say, 'Oh, I’m going to laugh at you if I look at you ’ and he’s like, 'Oh, you will laugh at me? Why? I’m like, ‘Because this is funny, you are being silly.

And then it says I’m interested in you. I shut it down immediately by saying I’m not interested in you, so we can actually just end this conversation, but no, he goes on again, takes it a mighty step further and says I like you, and I’m sure you like me too,’ and I’m like, ‘Bitch,’ and I start laughing. Then he looks at me and says, “Don’t you like me? ”, and I say “no” aloud, but in my head I say I have never in my life liked you; in fact, even the feeling of indifference, I am sure I do not have it. I don’t like you.

My answer doesn’t deter him, and he starts telling me how he is sure I noticed how restless he was during the meeting and how he was aroused. IYAMAAAA

And how we can always try things out between ourselves, and there’s a first time for everything, and I should be willing to try. I should also think about it, but I’m so done with the conversation at this point because I begin to feel like I can handle you expressing your feelings, but I don’t need to know that you got aroused by looking at me existing and taking minutes of a meeting. Especially if we do not have a relationship that permits you to behave like that toward me, so I end the discussion and go back to where I came from.

He sent me a text immediately after I got back, but as I type, I am yet to reply or even read the message, because I am unsure what to say.

Hopefully, he forgets and pretends this interaction did not happen, but yeahh, I do not think I am comfortable anymore.

Byee, till we meet again, or till some crazy thing happens to me!!!