snap decisions

The same day I wrote my previous entry, I watched Comedy Central that night and saw Lewis Black rant about how the PTC website has all the dirtiest broadcast television clips from the last week. It was classic. I think Lewis Black is one of my heroes.

In more personal news, I realized that every woman I've ever dated decided the first time she met me that she wanted a relationship (or not). That includes women who I knew as "friends" long before I actually started dating them. They spent the intervening weeks or months dropping subtle or not so subtle hints about it. I've never figured this snap decision making process out. How do they know someone well enough instantly to decide if they're good dating material? They must be going on superficial first impressions because at that point they don't have anything else! Yet they decide then and there, usually for all time, whether you're someone they want to date, or just "a friend". And somehow it's guys who get the most flack for being superficial. What's with that? I call BS.

As a guy of course, I consider every woman I can stand to be in the same room with as potential dating material (okay, slight exaggeration). But I've certainly gone on a date or two with someone and still not known if it's going anywhere significant, if I really want it to go anywhere, etc. I don't know the person well enough yet.

Women are strange. I know a little about a lot of things and a lot about a few things, but about women that's all I know. You can quote me on that. :-P