romantic advice for idiots

So I feel like I’ve been living in a book or a movie for the past two or so months. I don’t know whether I changed at all, or whether 2012 just brought upon it a new wave of guys who are ridiculously confident. Some really great romantic things have happened to me in the past few months that have never ever happened before, and not only had they not happened before I didn’t think they were possible. I didn’t think that there were people out there who actually did stuff like this. I didn’t think that there were actually guys who took notes from romantic movies, and then did them and applied them to their lives, I mean that’s awesome!

Then again when something great happens in life there has to be something that counteracts it, the balance needs to be restored because that’s just the way the world works apparently. For instance I was walking around the other day and a guy wolf whistles at me. Now usually, I say usually but I don’t get wolf whistles very often. But when it does happen, usually it’s a group of drunken or cocky boys that are just having a bit of banter or trying to impress their friends, and this is really easy to ignore because they are just being silly. Or maybe it’s like a builder or a workman who’s up high on a roof so you can’t really see him. You kind of hear it, and then just assume it’s meant for someone else.

But this was different, this guy was walking towards me and I was looking down, and he waited until I looked up so I would see him, and then he wolf whistled at me. But he didn’t just wolf whistle; he did it super creepily…

What did he expect from that? What did he expect me to do? Was I supposed to just jump into his arms and say; ‘take me to your place’?

The wolf whistle, it’s not an attractive noise that makes women swoon as soon as they hear it. It’s become pretty tacky over the years, and I don’t know why guys still do it. If you’re a guy that’s reading this post and you’re into the whole wolf whistling thing… cut it out. If you see a girl that’s good looking, go up to her and tell her she’s beautiful or pretty. Don’t call her hot or sexy; tell her that she’s beautiful. There’s a big difference between those words to us.

So yeah it is great to know that there are hopeless romantics out there like me that are willing to sort of put themselves out there, and put themselves on the line, and be at risk or being ridiculed or cringed at, just in the hope that they’ll find someone like me that responds positively to it. And it’s nice to know that stuff that you see in books and movies can actually happen.

But then again it’s just horrible to know that it works the other way as well and there are guys that think the way to get a girl’s attention is to whistle at them like a dog.