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“Come on!” I’m saying. “Just say it.”
He’s looking at me like I’ve sprouted a horn, right between the eyes. He gives me an Generic Arimidex Anastrozole exasperated sigh, takes a swig of his beer, and is firm. “No.”
“But it’s such a non-issue!”
“It’s stupid.”
“Then it shouldn’t matter if I know or not.”
“How about ‘not’, then?”
“Why are you being so difficult?! I think I’m entitled to know. It’s kind of part of who you are.”
“Maybe to you. But then you’re going to want to share…and I don’t think I want to know!” He glances away and then back, sheepish. “I’m pretty sure I’d get irrationally jealous.”
Ah—that’s touching. But not enough.
“TELL me.”
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“I’m sorry, what?”
“18-23.”
I brought this on myself.
Once upon a time, I had a twisted fascination with other people’s numbers. Not their phone numbers or Generic Arimidex Anastrozole waist size or the gas mileage on their cars, but their reported sexual experience – or lack thereof—conveniently summarized into an integer. To my over-analytical my mind, it Generic Arimidex Anastrozole was the handiest way to process information about new guys I was seeing.
Very high number? Red Alert! Warning! This one’s likely to “hump ‘em and dump ‘em”. Very low number? This one’s conservative, a thinker. Chances are high we’ll be Generic Arimidex Anastrozole talking about our relationship more than actually being in one.
But a range? A RANGE?? This was new.
According to the owner of this range, he’d started having sex really young in life. Like really young. While I was finding new and Generic Arimidex Anastrozole sneakier ways to watch forbidden episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 at my house, this Generic Arimidex Anastrozole guy was bedding his own Donnas and letting them all blur into the Generic Arimidex Anastrozole background of his pre-adolescent mind.
I now realize I’d found this tidbit upsetting for two reasons. First, barring the Generic Arimidex Anastrozole Wilt Chamberlains and Gene Simmons of the world, I thought it Generic Arimidex Anastrozole unfathomable that a person could not actually recall how many people they’d slept with in a lifetime. Granted, there are Generic Arimidex Anastrozole people who burn themselves into your mind and others who barely scratch out a Generic Arimidex Anastrozole half-hearted “I wuz here”. But I couldn’t believe that, if pressed to Generic Arimidex Anastrozole remember, a person could only give a fuzzy estimate, at best.
The second reason actually only came to me a couple nights ago. In an episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’, Lily finds out that a favourite co-worker of Marshall’s is a really attractive woman (played by Amanda Peet). But Lily doesn’t show a trace of jealousy and group’s explanation is simple: Marshall is the “reacher” and she’s the “settler”. Translate: in every relationship, one person is Generic Arimidex Anastrozole almost always out of the other’s league.
Back to that night….I thought “I” was the settler! Don’t get me wrong, he was a nice guy and all that—but mostly on the nerdy side. Without even realizing I’d made the assumption, I’d completely thought I’d surpass him on that front. Wrong. I couldn’t even figure out where Generic Arimidex Anastrozole he found the time, between hours lost in heated arguments over Battlestar Galactica. This just threw our whole dynamic off-kilter.
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For the most part, people tend to tread the line of what they’ve come to see as ‘normal’. For one of my friends, that Generic Arimidex Anastrozole means knocking more than a dozen off her score while for Generic Arimidex Anastrozole another, it means beefing his up with some fictitious, saucy rendez-vous. But there’s no denying that the overarching trend is for men to “up” their numbers and for women to play theirs down.
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Your number shouldn’t define you. But it would be naive to think that the people you’re dating don’t go ahead and define you anyway, based on it. And if it’s something that’s not important to you and but really important to them — then Generic Arimidex Anastrozole that alone tells you something about your compatibility, regardless of what Generic Arimidex Anastrozole those numbers actually are.
Looking back, I’m not surprised that connection with ‘Range Man’ soon fizzled. Hopeless conservative that I am, I just couldn’t seem to see him in any other light. And that was my own fault for asking. I learned the hard way that night that, unless you’re prepared to deal with the consequence, the numbers game is one best left to math geeks and that fat guy on Lost.
Jessekg
Feb 11th, 2011
haha, at least you Generic Arimidex Anastrozole learned your lesson. never ask a guy his numbers. in fact, there is Generic Arimidex Anastrozole probably a good chance he was lying anyways. I have a Generic Arimidex Anastrozole friend in the hundreds (hundreds!) who tells girls 12 every time.
Jef
Feb 11th, 2011
@Jesse: Well, what else is there to do in Peterborough anyway?
@Avril: I thought 18-23 was an age range or something. Clearly, I’ve been in a committed relationship for a REALLY LONG TIME.
Avril
Feb 15th, 2011
A “friend”, eh Jess?? Haha :D