Lesson Learned

Don't shit where you eat. Don't dip your pen in the company ink.

Everyone has heard these terms, yet everyone makes their own mistakes. Some learn. Others don't.

I have fallen and slipped into these taboos. And you think learning would help. It doesn't. I always think it will be different. Basically, it's always the same outcome- it ends. And to no one's fault but my own. It creates awkward situations and a basic disdane. It's just a bad after taste I can't get out of my mouth.

Now, it doesn't simply refer to co-workers. And when I think of that one- Oh God. It was a flip flop back and forth. He's not ready for a girlfriend. So we call it quits. Finito. Then couple months later, he's suffering from blue balls so let's hook up. Then after a month, I find out he has decided he is ready for a relationship...with another co-worker. Of course, general hatred ensues. This basically stems from him not being able to man up and me having to hear about it from someone else. Really?! That much of a dickhead. It was a lovely ending though, she ends up being forced to quit in order to continue dating him because HR found out. Later on he's fired for being stoned and can't find a job for a good 4 months. Payback's a bitch huh?

Alas, it doesn't always just involve co-workers, it could involve someone that is just slightly related to your work field. Even if not directly related, once they happen to wander into your work, that same embarassment comes about even if nothing happened in the work place. This has happened a few times. I work at a popular sports bar and every now and again some one comes in that I might have had some sort of relation with and all I can do is pray to God they do not see me. And in case they do, just play it off like nothing happened. However on the reverse side of things, it sucks when you're the one ignored because someone has decided to open their mouths and only ends up digging you in the biggest hole of your life (at the time) and all you can think is that someone, God willing, just might please just end your life then. This is the predicament I am currently faced with.

It all started because a friend and I decided to take two incredible handsome gentlemen up on their offer to grab drinks later on in the evening. What happens next, but a foggy memory filled with shots of tequila, vodka, and SoCo. And now we are faced to see them and the basic acknowledgment we get is being looked straight through all because someone has decided to open their mouths in an "attempt" to try and help us out. Giant backfail. Now they think we are crazy. Not cute. Not the outcome we wanted. And it's all due to someone else.

So the only lesson I've learned is not to tell anyone about your adventures with the opposite sex since they can't keep their mouths shut in a quest for attention.