Last night I finally watched, “He’s Just Not That Into You.”  I rented it from Redbox.  It was touted as a comedy, wasn’t it? I only laughed twice.  The first time was when a woman said, “Girl, you better get yourself some ribs and some ice cream because, honey, you’ve been dumped!”   I can’t remember the other line that spurred me to laugh the second time.  Mostly I just felt sick.  In a way it very accurately captured the dating scene.  The constant rejection, wondering why no one seems to like you, the difficulty of putting yourself out there…  Yet outside that little piece of realism all the men were total jerks and all the women were simpering idiots.  I appreciated the whole, “He’s just not that into you” piece of advice back whenever it was original.  Sometimes it’s easy to lose perspective… to a degree.  But this movie made it seem like women had large chunks of their brain missing…. “He hasn’t called in 2 weeks!  I am sure we will soon get married in St Thomas on the beach!”   And thinking back to when I was dating, it wasn’t that I needed to be reminded that “he’s just not that into me” but rather it was the wait time to determine if he was or wasn’t.  I’d finish a good date and then think, “Okay, I got 3 days of waiting  to see if he had a good time too.”  Three days was the typical span of time it took to get a call back.  Those three days were rough.  I’d try to pretend I didn’t care but I did and it was difficult.  And when a call back didn’t occur… oh well, more proof no one wanted me.  Gosh it was hard.  I don’t miss it one bit.

The nice thing is that by renting it at Redbox, I am only out $2.00.  No big whoop.