So THAT'S What Crow Tastes Like

1. . Fig. to display total humility, especially when shown to be wrong. Well, it looks like I was wrong, and I'm going to have to eat crow.

The morning after I wrote the post about R2 being a complete jerk, he contacted me and we made plans for him to come over to my sister's house for dinner and a movie.

Later that afternoon it started to rain, and because he drives a motorcycle he told me that if the rain kept up he wouldn't be able to make it. I told him if it came down to it, I could pick him up.

Just before dinner I text him my sister's address. Here is the conversation:
way out there?!
I guess so!
Idk if I want to drive out there, lol

I wasn't 100% sure if he was being sarcastic or just stupid...because I don't know him THAT well, so I said:
well that's lame!
Ten minutes later (because he hadn't said anything) I said:
So are you coming or not, R2?
It's like 30 minutes away :(
Wow.....for real?! I normally live 30 HOURS away!
Haha
NOT "haha", R2. you could have thought about the distance THIS MORNING, I mean....hello!? Jeesh
Sorry!!!! :(
whatever
you leave tomorrow morning?
at 4am
Then no correspondence for an hour and 15 minutes.  In that time I was drafting up a mean text message to send, expressing all the angry thoughts going through my head. As I was typing out my "you suck" text HE text ME and said:
I guess not then huh, :(
Guess not what?!
You aren't coming to pick me up
I don't even know where you live! I didn't even know you WANTED me to pick you up! Why would I pick you up? 
i messaged you at 6:40
the last thing I got from you was at 6:30 and you said "you leave tomorrow morning?"
ok, it was 6:41 not 6:40
:(
this sucks
Don't just send a sad face, R2! We're freakin adults! If you still want to hang out give me your address!

So he gave me his address.

Since he didn't show up for dinner everyone in the house (especially me) was FUMING because of his ridiculousness. When I announced that I needed to borrow a car to go meet up with him, my sister and brother-in-law thought I was insane.
But I HAD to meet him so I could know if he was as big an idiot as he was coming across as.

I'm SO glad I went over to his house!
I pulled in front of his house (behind his drenched motorcycle) and he was standing on the porch, smiling like a ninny and waving at me. Almost like when you get home and your puppy is really excited to see you.

Trying to describe him would take WAY too much time.
I'm 99.9% sure his mind didn't even register that canceling plans at the extreme last minute is....rude.

We talked on his porch for about an hour and a half. It was great to finally get to know him! Instead of trying to see what he is like through messages. And now he makes sense to me. I will never have to read another text and be like, "What does he mean by that?"

He is a great friend! A great TEXT friend...like I wanted all along!

Moral of the story: You NEVER know what someone is like until you talk to them face to face. And you should NEVER read anything into a text message.

While driving home I kept thinking how comical it was that I thought he was "stringing me along". I'm pretty sure there isn't a malicious bone in his body. In fact, the whole time I thought I was being snippy and argumentative in my texts he probably didn't even realize I was trying to be snippy and argumentative. Haha!


I'm hoping this is the last blog I write about R2. Because between eating the humble pie and the crow I'm getting pretty full.