Never take relationship advice from a gay boy.  They can be, and almost always are right, but when they miss, they do it in such a spectacularly momentous way as to outweigh all previous good advice.

     A few months back I was seeing a girl for several weeks.  It was just a casual thing.  We were just seeing where things went if indeed they were going to go anywhere.  It was helped by the fact that she lived in a town 3 hours drive from where I live.  Work had been nice enough to send me off into the country for a project so I was spending 3 or 4 days a week working away. 

     I had met her a couple of weeks before the project ended.  So when that happened she started coming down to the city to see me.  Unfortunately I wasn’t as enamoured with her as she was obviously becoming with me.  Then she started talking about moving to Melbourne.  That wasn’t what I had in mind I can tell you!

     During this time my gay boy friend had the opportunity to meet her.  His opinion was that she seemed very nice and level headed.  Definitely girlfriend material.  He could not have been more wrong. 

    As the weeks wore on  I was increasingly thinking that I should  never have gone past the one night stand with this girl.  What was I thinking I thought to myself,  but then I thought about what my friend had said and thought maybe I just needed more time.  Second opinion I thought.  One of the things that was increasingly turning me off her was the fact that I kept saying I only wanted to be casual now and just take our time and see where things went and she kept agreeing to this but her body language was screaming marriage at me.   I still ended things with her but as she had moved to Melbourne by then she was ringing me a lot wanting to go out as in her words she didn’t know anyone here that she wanted to see.  Probably more like they didn’t want to see her.  She had lived down here in the not too distant past.  Anyway feeling a bit sorry for her because I had let things go on a bit long with her I told her we were off to a girl night at a local pub and that she was welcome to come along.

     Big mistake!  I went out with a couple I know and she met us there.  Luckily the pub had a number of rooms including beer garden/smoking area.  It was set up in such a way as you could walk around in a complete circle.  I had told my friends what to expect of her, that I thought she was a bit on the not so level side of life.  I spent most of the night avoiding her once she got there and my friends were very obliging about this.  On the way home my friends told me what she had said to them.  It went something like this:  Friend :- “so what are you looking for in a girl?”  Response:- ” Oh someone like “X” !”  Meaning me!  They had also  come to the same opinion of her as I had, that something wasn’t quite as it should be and she was definitely someone to be avoided.  So much for the advice from the gay boy.